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90-Employee Marengo Firm Closing Right Before Memorial Day

April 09, 2012 By: Cal Skinner Category: Bag, Closing, Diversapack, Factory, Layoff, Marengo, Plant, Plastic

That’s the information reported to the Illinois Department of Labor on March 29th.

Diversapack, located at 201 North Prospect Street in Marengo is laying everyone off on May 29th.

The firm manufactures plastic bags and pouches.

You can see the details of the closing below:

The information Diversapack filed about its closing with the Illinois Department of Labor. Click to enlarge.

LifeSource Tells State of 63 Teamster Layoffs

June 09, 2011 By: Cal Skinner Category: Blood, Layoff, LifeSource

State law requires notice be given to State government about pending layoffs.

The biggest one revealed in May was for LifeSource.

The details follow:
LifeSource has a blood donation center in Crystal Lake next to Game Stop south of the Harris Bank.

All locations can be seen on the map below:

Where LifeSource centers are located.

“We Will Pay You to Stay”

May 07, 2011 By: Cal Skinner Category: Careen Gordon, Job, Layoff, Motorola Mobility, Pat Quinn

Tribune editors thought the $100 million promised Motorola Mobility to stay in Illinois was the most importat story for Saturday.

Would $17 million (the same 34,750 per job offered Motorola Mobility) have saved these positions?

Using a method Democrats seem to understand, Governor Pat Quinn has offered Motorola’s newly-spun off cellular division $100 million not to move to sunny California.

Exchange of things valuable.

Our tax dollars for jobs.

Quinn pro quo.

3,000 jobs that are already here is the prize.

The Tribune says that works out to $34,750 per job retained, “considerably more than the $15,000 to $20,000 per job that is more typical when the state awards tax credits to keep or attract businesses.”

Meanwhile other big Illinois employers gave notice that 474 employees would be cut.

Illinois apparently does not have assets other than taxpayers’ money to induce profit-making entities to settle or stay in Illinois.

And, of course, this bears no resemblance to Quinn’s offer of an $86,000-plus job on the Prisoner Review Board to defeated State Rep. Careen Gordon.

Just a Quincidence that she voted with fellow Democrats to hike income tax rates 67% after promising voters she would not during her campaign for re-election.

Layoffs in Harvard Schools

March 28, 2011 By: Cal Skinner Category: Dismissal, Harvard School Board, Harvard School District 50, Layoff

Here’s  what’s happening re layoffs at Harvard School District 50:

Friday afternoon view of the Crosby Elementary School parking lot.

This responds to your March 17, 2011, Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) request for “documents relating to the reasons for and date of any teachers’ or other certified personnel’s dismissals in 2009, 2010 and 2011.” The District has identified the following records as responsive to your request:

Notices of Non-Reemployment issued to the following first, second or third-year non-tenured teachers:

  • Cassandra Vinci
  • Dannielle Parrotte
  • Yuh-Shiow Sheu
  • Mark Rusk
  • Katherine Senese
  • Alberto Juarez
  • Garrett Dore
  • Angela Weaver
  • Heather Davis
  • Rachel Hockmeyer
  • Jamie Saunders
  • Efrain Gonzalez
  • Maria Guzman
  • Grecia Mapica Guevara
  • Wendy Krepel

Notices of Dismissal issued to the following grant-funded, non-tenured teachers:

  • Erin Thiede
  • Tara Peterson

Notice of Dismissal issued to the Kristi Havlicek, a fourth-year, non-tenured teacher

Notice of Nonrenewal issued to Donna Joyce and Ms. Joyce’s 2010-2011 performance evaluation.

Notice of Dismissal, Resolution and Bill of Particulars issued to Dr. Peter Koehn, a tenured school psychologist.

With the exception of Ms. Joyce’s 2010-2011 performance evaluation and the home addresses listed on each notice, the District is providing you with copies of the above-referenced documents as a PDF.

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The photo was taken about 2:30 Friday afternoon from the WeatherBug part of the Harvard School District’s web site.

More Layoffs Coming at Silgan Plastics in Woodstock

February 09, 2011 By: Cal Skinner Category: Layoff, Silgan Plastics, Uncategorized, Woodstock

Silgan Plastics facillities.

Thirty-seven more employees of Woodstock’s Silgan Plastics began to be laid off on January 3rd. The firm had forty-five previously.

This is at least a second round because the source is a supplemental report to the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Development.

The company is located north of McConnell Road.

“We’re transitioning to a new technology, away from the technology that is in that plant,” Chief Financial Officer Robert Lewis told Plastics News last month.