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[其他] Dow化工亚省工厂将裁员

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发表于 2009-2-4 13:59 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
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道化工亚省工厂将裁员
7 r& _3 R5 l) _% W7 d9 D& fDow Chemical's Alberta facilities will see layoffs! I3 z& R# m# Y0 d8 M  E- Q! `
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EDMONTON — Some employees at Dow Chemical’s Alberta facilities have been notified they will be laid off but the full extent of the job cuts won’t be known until late next week, a company spokesperson said Wednesday." }  t" b4 i) I4 \* U/ i- c
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Mary-Lea Crawford, public affairs manager for Dow at Fort Saskatchewan, would not say how many layoff notices have been handed out so far.
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, k6 u8 I4 A1 m% mThe cuts are not expected to be as deep as the 11-per-cent target announced by the U.S.-based company in December, she said.+ \2 a/ F9 q; I/ D2 V- o

( o# E  L/ J" ~Dow employs about 630 people in Alberta, with 550 in Fort Saskatchewan with the balance at its Prentiss facility near Red Deer.
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Dow posted weaker-than-expected fourth-quarter results on Tuesday because demand has plummeted in markets such as the construction, electronics and automotives.$ M# U) ], m9 R- Z% Q

0 \- F4 h+ e: {+ yDow has tried to revamp its earnings profile over the past two years, first by announcing plans to sell a 50- per-cent stake in its cyclical basic plastics business to Kuwaiti investors for more than $9 billion. Then, in July, it announced plans to spend more than $15 billion to acquire Rohm and Haas using proceeds from the joint venture.
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Dow’s plans faltered when Kuwait backed out of the joint venture. Rohm and Haas said its merger agreement with Dow, was not contingent on the Kuwait transaction.
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+ M" R, v7 U3 ^4 [! z) jPhiladelphia-based Rohm and Haas sued Dow in a bid to force the deal to close. Dow filed its response to the lawsuit on Tuesday.
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" Z: j' G: |- L9 cDow argued the agreement was not binding, because it was impossible to carry out “without jeopardizing the very existence of both companies.”
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