via Wkyc: More workers face layoffs at Lordstown’s General Motors plant as Leadec announced its services with the factory will end next month. According to a WARN letter sent to the Ohio Dept. of Job and Family Services from complex manager Jessica Jones, Leadec will lay off 63 union employees and 10 non-union employees. Those […]
The Akron Board of Education has announced the laying off of 93 of its employees, including teachers, administrators, custodians, and tutors, for the 2017-18 school year. The cuts come as three buildings in the Akron Public School district close their doors: Kenmore High School, Kent Middle School, and Bettes Elementary. The areas of reduction include: […]
The City of East Cleveland is eliminating seven percent of its staff, which includes two police officers. The move comes in an effort to save the struggling city money. “The goal was to keep as many officers on the street,” said East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton. “By not laying people off at the bottom […]
East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton tells 19 Action News the city is downsizing. Norton says this is designed to save money and make the city run more efficiently. “As a need to make our operations a little bit leaner and to promote better programming at the Martin Luther King Center.” A total of seven people […]
The city’s Police Department has had to deal with two huge cases recently — the wild Cleveland police chase that concluded with two unarmed suspects shot and killed ended in East Cleveland, and accused serial killer Michael Madison is charged with murdering three woman and dumping their bodies in the city. Those cases would […]
More job cuts are expected at The Plain Dealer, Cleveland’s largest daily newspaper. The lay-offs are described as part of a “re-design” of operations. According to a post on the “Save the Plain Dealer’s” Facebook page, workers were given 90 minutes notice Wednesday night to go home and wait for a phone call. They […]
The East Cleveland Police Department is going into 2013 with a new round of layoffs. The department will be trimmed by 15-19 officers — or 20 percent — effective Wednesday when pink slips begin going out to those impacted. The chief said the city is working on a strategy that will allow the department to […]
The East Cleveland Police Department will lay off 20 percent of its officers in January, according to a trusted source. It means the department will be trimmed by 15-19 officers effective Jan. 1, 2013. Further details about the layoffs will be announced next week. article courtesy of Newsnet5.com
The Cleveland school board unanimously approved a plan to cut $66 million from the district’s budget, putting hundreds of teachers out of work. “Our children are struggling and we don’t care why, we want them to pass the graduation test, yet we can’t teach them because we’re not there and they don’t know whether […]
Over the last five years the Lorain City School District has seen its enrollment drop 15 percent, its workforce of teachers reduced by 29 percent and administration costs cut 40 percent yet they face still a $12 million deficit. To close that hole, notices were mailed out earlier this month to all district employees […]
The Cuyahoga County executive office said it is in the process of notifying 33 employees in the fiscal office that they will be laid off. The latest restructuring reduces the county government’s annual payroll expense by $1.7 million. Before Wednesday’s announcement, county government had already reduced its payroll by 310 employees, saving the county about […]
Using information as their weapon, East Cleveland police officers walked the streets Tuesday evening, urging residents to save the city’s traffic cameras, and some of their jobs. On November 8, East Cleveland residents can decide whether to get rid of the city’s red light and speed cameras. Off-duty East Cleveland police officers went door-to-door through […]
