BRIEFCASE.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services Delphi work force to be down 70% DETROIT -- An additional 1,400 hourly workers have decided to accept auto supplier Delphi Corp.'s buyout offers, meaning that the struggling company will lose more than 70 percent of its work force by the end of the year. Delphi released the buyout numbers Tuesday, bringing to 20,100 the number of its production workers who have decided to leave this year either through buyout offers or early retirement packages. Delphi had 27,500 unionized workers as of June 30, and 12,400 United Auto Workers The United Auto Workers (UAW), headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, officially the United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America International Union union members previously accepted early retirement and buyout offers. An additional 6,300 members of the International Union of Electronic Workers-Communications Workers of America also will take buyouts or early retirements, Delphi said. All workers who accepted the offers will be off the payroll by Jan. 1, with several thousand replaced by lower-paid temporary workers as the company closes or sells 21 of its 29 U.S. plants, Delphi spokesman Lindsey Williams said. Glitch in Google service to ISP (1) See in-system programmable. (2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines. NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Google services were slow or inaccessible inaccessible Surgery adjective Unreachable; referring to a lesion that unmanageable by standard surgical techniques–eg, lesions deep in the brain or adjacent to vital structures–ie, not accessible. See Accessible. to some users of a single Internet service provider Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. Tuesday, the company said. In a statement, Google Inc. said its engineers ``helped troubleshoot the problem and provided diagnostic information to the ISP. We believe the issue has since been resolved by the ISP,'' which the company did not name. The cause of the glitch was not immediately known, nor were any details available on how widespread it was. Brief outages of leading Internet sites are not uncommon. Owens Corning's plan is approved PITTSBURGH -- A federal bankruptcy judge on Tuesday approved Owens Corning's plan for emerging from bankruptcy, the company said. The ruling by Judge Judith Fitzgerald Judith Ariana Fitzgerald (born 11 November 1952) is a Canadian poet and journalist. She was born in Toronto, Ontario, a Crown ward of the province. She lives in Port Loring, Ontario. at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court bankruptcy court n. the specialized Federal court in which bankruptcy matters under the Federal Bankruptcy Act are conducted. There are several bankruptcy courts in each state, and each one's territory covers several counties. for the District of Delaware comes more than five years after the building materials Building materials used in the construction industry to create . These categories of materials and products are used by and construction project managers to specify the materials and methods used for . maker sought protection from creditors over health claims related to its asbestos products. The plan shifts Owens Corning's $7 billion in asbestos liabilities off company books and into a trust that will be established for the plaintiffs. As part of the plan, the Toledo, Ohio-based building-products company will pay more than $5 billion to asbestos claimants and as much as $2.27 billion to holders of bank debt. Satellite signal for Sirius device NEW YORK -- Sirius Satellite Radio
Sirius' competitor XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. already offers a portable unit with live reception, but XM is being sued by music companies that say they should be paid extra because those units can store music for playback later. Sirius' new unit, the Stiletto 100, can also store music and play it later, but Sirius spokesman Patrick Reilly said the company had reached agreements with ``most'' of the major music companies that resolved their concerns over the Stiletto. |
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