Fletcher Allen to cut its in-house medical transcription service
News Release — Fletcher Allen Health Care May 8, 2013 BURLINGTON – Fletcher Allen Health Care announced today that it will purchase medical transcription services in the future rather than continue to...
View ArticleEssex Junction plant hit by latest IBM job cuts
IBM has announced another round of layoffs at the company’s facility in Essex Junction as part of a global reorganization. The exact number of Vermont workers to be laid off is not clear. IBM, presumed...
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Jobs fair and unemployment info sessions planned for laid-off IBM workers
Annie Noonan, commissioner of the Vermont Department of Labor. Photo by Anne Galloway/VTDigger The state is offering more unemployment information sessions and now a job fair for laid-off workers from...
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Vermont Yankee owner: ‘Expect workforce reductions’
Vermont Yankee cooling tower collapse, 2007 Entergy Corp., which owns the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant, is preparing to cut back its labor force in an effort to reorganize the company. “We do expect...
View ArticleVermont Yankee opponents ask PSB to weigh layoffs as part of...
The anti-nuclear organization New England Coalition and the Vermont Public Interest Research Group are asking the Vermont Public Service Board to take into account new information about layoffs at...
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Reduction in federal funding will result in job cuts at many Vermont hospitals
Preliminary numbers from the Green Mountain Care Board show that half of the state’s 14 community hospitals are budgeting for fewer full-time workers next year. The federal sequester and other cuts to...
View ArticleGould: Workers cut as Entergy redesigns its operations
Editor’s note: This commentary is by Schuyler Gould, a building contractor from Barre and a member of the Vermont Yankee Decommissioning Alliance. After two weeks living under the threat by parent...
View ArticleBusiness groups, environmental groups, politicians and activists react to...
Business groups Jeffery Wimette, business manager for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local #300 “This is a tragic day for hard-working people in Vermont, and for the IBEW’s...
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Vermont Yankee: Where activists, lawyers and politicians failed, the market...
Editor’s note: Andrew Stein contributed to this report. The Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant has been the subject of one of the longest and most intensive anti-nuke campaigns in the region. Even...
View ArticleBreaking: General Dynamics to lay off 35 in Williston
General Dynamics will lay off 35 employees from its Williston-based ordnance and tactical systems office. Company spokesman Karl Johnson confirmed Thursday morning that a combination of engineering,...
View ArticleUnderhill drug rehab center trims staff, medical services
Maple Leaf Farm, a 41-bed treatment center for drug and alcohol addiction in Underhill, is laying off eight staff and shuttering its primary care unit as the result of a budget shortfall. From now on,...
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Bennington manufacturer to close in May, taking 143 jobs
Plasan Carbon Composites will close its Bennington auto parts manufacturing facility in May, displacing 143 employees. The company will consolidate operations with an existing plant in Walker, Mich. A...
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State WARN Act would require notice before mass layoffs
Employers planning layoffs in Vermont would be subject to new state notification requirements, under legislation going to a preliminary Senate vote this week. A bill under consideration closely...
View ArticleDon Keelan: The callousness of a nonprofit
Editor’s note: This commentary is by Don Keelan, a certified public accountant and resident of Arlington. The piece first appeared in the Bennington Banner. The news was devastating, shocking and...
View ArticleVermont Technical College cuts six from staff
Editor’s note: This article is by Maggie Cassidy of the Valley News, in which it was first published on May 2, 2014. RANDOLPH — Vermont Technical College is laying off six employees as part of an...
View ArticleEntergy to lay off 165 Vermont Yankee workers in January
Entergy said Wednesday it will lay off 165 employees on Jan. 19, shortly after the company plans to shut down the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon. The Louisiana-based company filed the...
View ArticlePending VTC layoffs announced
Faculty members at Vermont Technical College in Randolph learned Thursday that some of them, including tenured professors, may receive pink slips after Thanksgiving. At a regular monthly meeting with...
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VTC to lay off eight full-time faculty, 27 adjuncts may not be hired back...
Eight full-time faculty at Vermont Technical College in Randolph received layoff notices Monday. The action is part of a large-scale financial reorganization that could have major implications for the...
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State layoffs pegged at 14, administration says
Union members and supporters rally at the Statehouse on Saturday, April 11, 2015, in protest of Gov. Peter Shumlin’s proposal to renegotiate state workers’ contracts to help balance the state’s budget....
View ArticleEssex Junction plant hit by latest IBM job cuts
IBM has announced another round of layoffs at the company’s facility in Essex Junction as part of a global reorganization. The exact number of Vermont workers to be laid off is not clear. IBM, presumed...
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