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Protests over French jobs law turn violent
USA Today - Mar 23 6:56 PM
Demonstrators hurled chunks of concrete at police, who responded with tear gas Thursday as protest marches over a contested jobs law again erupted into violence. Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and union leaders, meanwhile, agreed to meet for the first time in the standoff.Save to My Web

More jobs set to evaporate
Asheville Citizen-Times - Mar 24 9:03 PM
ASHEVILLE -- Nearly 300 Macon County textile workers will lose their jobs when a north Georgia clothing plant closes in August.Save to My Web

PAISD to cut 67 jobs
Port Arthur News - 19 minutes ago
A total of 67 Port Arthur ISD employees will no longer have jobs with the district come the end of the Spring term. The Port Arthur ISD Board of Trustees voted 7-0 Thursday night to layoff eight non-certified teachers and 59 probationary status employees.Save to My Web

Lockheed jobs would go to Houston
Denver Post - Mar 24 9:50 AM
NEW: Lockheed Martin announced today that if it wins a multibillion dollar contract to build the shuttle's successor, the project's central office will be in Houston, and not Jefferson County. Houston will gain about 1,200 new jobs and employ roughly half of the project's workforce if NASA selects Lockheed over a team led by Northrop Grumman and Boeing.Save to My Web

Daimler to halt four-door Smart car
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Mar 25 5:17 AM
DaimlerChrysler (DCXGn.DE) plans to scrap its four-seat Smart car and focus solely on the two-seat model in another overhaul of the minicar unit that will cost some 1 billion euros ($1.20 billion) and 300 jobs, it said.Save to My Web

5 coolest jobs in spring training
The News-Press - 3 minutes ago
Brian Mullen has a bird's-eye view of the field at City of Palms from his corner of the press box where he tracks hits, runs and errors on a scorebook and then phones in updates to Major League Baseball.Save to My Web

More jobs in the City than during the dotcom boom years
Times Online - Mar 25 4:15 PM
THE soaring stock market and the boom in mergers and acquisitions has pushed the number of City jobs to record levels, new figures show.Save to My Web

Bayer Plans to Cut 6,000 Jobs After Schering Purchase (Update1)
Bloomberg.com - Mar 24 2:43 AM
March 24 (Bloomberg) -- Bayer AG, Germany's biggest drug company, plans to eliminate 6,000 jobs after its 16.3 billion- euro ($19.5 billion) purchase of rival Schering AG.Save to My Web