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- From: nau@ssesco.com (William Nau)
- Subject: Re: Northwest layoffs
- Message-ID: <By0rs7.FCK@ssesco.com>
- Sender: news@ssesco.com
- Organization: SSESCO
- References: <1992Nov19.092215.7207@hemlock.cray.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:48:05 GMT
- Lines: 38
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- In article <1992Nov19.092215.7207@hemlock.cray.com>, n3884@cray.com (Pete Palmer) writes:
- |>
- |> ---
- |>
- |> The other night on the news it was reported that Northwest has now
- |> terminated 2100 positions in 1992. Many of these positions were
- |> high paying, including upper mid-management and pilots.
- |>
- |> Does anyone know how many new jobs they have promised with the Airbus maintenance
- |> bases in the Duluth area? I'm trying to see if there will be any net gain
- |> in jobs for the state, or are we already in the red?
- |>
- |> Obviously they needed to make these cuts to compete with the big guys,
- |> but why was this never mentioned to MN residents when the
- |> legislature was debating the MAC bonds last year? Is the competitive
- |> environment changing so fast that they didn't know they would
- |> be cutting back or did the state do a bad job in assessing NWA's
- |> position in the market?
- |>
- |>
- |> --------------------------------------------------
- |> Pete Palmer
-
- Not to worry. All of those Northwest officials and politicians are sitting
- pretty with their share of that 600 to 900 (depending on how you look at
- it) million dollars. They'll be just fine.
-
- --
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- These are my views and SSESCO can't have them.
-
- William R. Nau
- Supercomputer Systems Engineering and Services Company (SSESCO)
- 511 11th Avenue South, Suite 216
- Minneapolis, Minnesota 55415-1536
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