Category: unemployment

May 18th Is Last Day for Most Stanley Workers

New Britain Residents Hold More than Half of 300 Jobs Being Eliminated The last day of work for most employees at Stanley Black & Decker's (SBD) 600 Myrtle Street manufacturing facility in New Britain will occur by May 18th, according to the company's official notification to the state Department of Labor (DOL) filed on March … Continue reading May 18th Is Last Day for Most Stanley Workers

Strategic Bonding: Senate Dems Push "Jobs Now" Initiative

The federal stimulus program is getting credit for mitigating 2008's economic free fall (Things would be worse without it). Recovery as defined by Wall Street financiers and their troika of Obama administration buddies --Rahm Emmanuel, Larry Summers and Tim Geithner -- is well under way.But the employment numbers and continuing slide in local tax revenues … Continue reading Strategic Bonding: Senate Dems Push "Jobs Now" Initiative