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Local unemployment edges down
Local unemployment figures edged down in November across the tri-city region, fueled by increases in industries such as retail, healthcare and hospitality.
The unemployment rates in Burbank, Glendale and Pasadena all dipped by 0.3%, according to data...Tags: Restaurants, Health Insurance Cost, Dining and Drinking, Labor Markets, Career and Workplace
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Disney to cut 200 jobs
Roughly 200 positions are expected to be eliminated by the Walt Disney Co., most to be absorbed by the company’s Burbank headquarters, in a round of layoffs next week, according to a company source. Some of the positions to be eliminated currently...Tags: Homes, Brad Brown, Rentals, Career and Workplace, Gaming
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Teachers, district hit wall in contract negotiations
Burbank teachers took to city streets Thursday to demand that school district officials return to the bargaining table to finalize the terms of a new contract.
Burbank Unified and the Burbank Teachers Assn. have been locked in negotiations for months,...Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, Career and Workplace, John Burroughs
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BUSD teachers safe, for now
For the first time in three years, Burbank Unified will not issue pink slips to teachers, administrators said. The district will use $2.5 million from a one-time federal education jobs bill to maintain its teaching staff through the next fiscal year,...Tags: Politics, California, Layoffs and Downsizing, Career and Workplace, Elections
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Burbank Unified restores school days
Burbank Unified and its main teachers union have agreed to restore three instructional days and one staff development day to the 2010-11 school year, district officials said. The agreement, which was approved on Oct. 21, means that Burbank schools...Tags: Politics, Teachers Unions, Layoffs and Downsizing, Career and Workplace, State Budgets
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Survey says residents like Burbank
In spite of the recovering economy and ongoing investigations into the Police Department, a recent survey shows that 96% of Burbank residents generally are satisfied with the city. About 78% of those surveyed reported they were very satisfied overall...Tags: Career and Workplace, Burbank (Los Angeles, California), September 11, 2001 Attacks, FBI, Marketing
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Sickening display of benefits for the rich
I am sure that I have this straight — the Republicans in Congress held the extension of unemployment benefits hostage until President Obama agreed to a two-year extension of the infamous deficit blossoming Bush tax cuts. In other words, in order...Tags: Republican Party, Politics, Career and Workplace, Unemployment Benefits, State Budgets
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Schools bank on federal boost
WEST BURBANK — Federal aid to states is expected to provide Burbank Unified with about $2 million, which officials said could offset employee furlough days or ease the deficit. Burbank Unified officials said it was too soon to know whether...Tags: Employees, Budgets and Budgeting, Unions, California, Layoffs and Downsizing
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Pink slips may be nixed
WEST BURBANK — A tentative agreement between the Burbank Unified School District and its teachers union will rescind all 67 teacher pink slips sent out earlier this year in exchange for six unpaid work furlough days for the 2010-11 school year,...Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, Medical Services, Career and Workplace, Burbank (Los Angeles, California), Health
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Plan may save jobs
WEST BURBANK — Administrative assistants and other non-teaching employees at Burbank Unified are close to a deal that would spare 27 people from being laid off in exchange for their union agreeing to five unpaid work furlough days, officials said....Tags: Employees, Unions, Layoffs and Downsizing, Career and Workplace, Burbank (Los Angeles, California)
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Time to work ahead
It appears that 67 Burbank Unified teachers will be spared from layoffs after the district and the teachers union agreed to a schedule of unpaid work furlough days. The union membership still must ratify the plan, but the tentative pact looks promising....Tags: Sacramento, Layoffs and Downsizing, Career and Workplace, Burbank (Los Angeles, California)
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A Reader Writes: Superintendent: No deal will force more dramatic cuts
By RICHARD P. FRAGALEAfter months of negotiating, two mediation sessions, and almost 25 hours of fact-finding it seemed as if the Calexico Unified School District and the Associated Calexico Teachers had finally reached an agreement with the district on May 7....Tags: Students, Facebook, Layoffs and Downsizing, Career and Workplace, Teachers
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