Ashland Inc. Offers Buyout Package to 1,100 Workers
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By Karla Ward, Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.  Dec. 13--Ashland Inc. is offering a voluntary buyout package to 1,100 of  its 12,000 employees, including several hundred in Lexington.
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Chrysler LLC said on Monday it is offering buyouts of up to $100,000 each to an unidentified number of hourly workers at 12 of its Detroit-area facilities as part of its November plan to eliminate up to 10,000 unionized jobs.
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Investment in manufacturing plant in Lodz could reach $321 million and include 1,000 workers.
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Argosy Gaming Co., the oldest riverboat-casino operator in the St. Louis market, said Wednesday that it will be bought out for $1.
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American Airlines told its employees last night that it planned to lay off as many as 1,100 pilots, mechanics and other employees, as part of a cost-cutting program.
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Coeur d&#39;Alene Mines Corp. said Monday that it formally opened an offer to buy all outstanding common shares of fellow precious-metal miner Wheaton River Minerals Ltd.
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Station Casinos Inc.   said on Monday it received a management-led buyout offer from a group including its chairman and Chief Executive Frank Fertitta for $82 per share, or $4.7 billion.
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BERLIN  - Workers at a Siemens AG phone systems plant have agreed to a three per cent hourly pay cut and other concessions to keep 1,100 jobs in Germany that might have been shifted to lower-cost countries, the company said Wednesday.
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Chrysler LLC said on Monday it is offering buyouts of up to $100,000 each to hourly workers at 12 of its Detroit-area facilities as part of its November plan to eliminate up to 10,000 unionized jobs.
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Banking and insurance conglomerate ING GroupÂ has finalized contracts worth â¬750 million ($994 million) with a consortium of companies to provide workspace services for its 53,000 employees in Europe.
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British Airways, moving to avert a strike, sweetened its last offer to union leaders by promising a $1,831 lump sum Tuesday for not missing work.
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PQ Corp., the specialty chemicals  business, said on Friday it was being sold to private equity  buyout firm Carlyle Group  for $1.5 billion.
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General Motors Corp will offer buyouts or early retirements to all 74,000 U.S. hourly workers represented by the United Auto Workers in a sweeping deal with the union intended to clear the way for GM to hire lower-cost replacements.
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The United Auto Workers union said on  Thursday Ford Motor Co. is offering 8 buyout packages to  its U.S. union-represented factory workers, including up to  $140,000 one-time payment.
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A paper mill is to be built creating 300 permanent jobs and employing 1,000 workers in its construction.
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Harrah's Entertainment Inc., the world's largest casino operator, received a $15.1 billion takeover offer from two private equity firms in what would be the fourth-largest leveraged buyout ever.
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Merck said Monday that its board had adopted a plan that would pay hefty severance packages to about 230 employees if the company were acquired or a proxy fight ended in the board being replaced.