Sentence examples for and reduce the workforce from inspiring English sources

British Steel, for instance, made great gains in profitability while still a nationalised industry under the government-appointed chairmanship of Ian MacGregor, who faced down trade-union opposition to close plants and reduce the workforce by half.

During the lock-out, the company announced that it was conducting a "spill and fill" of all positions, and reducing the workforce by a third.

He closed nearly half the city's schools and reduced the workforce by a third.

Wal-Mart may also have come around to the realization that cutting costs by squeezing its workers and reducing the workforces at its stores was a losing proposition, competitively.

The workers' union struggled during this time and after an agreement to reduce the workforce, production began in June 2004.

By the end of 2014, we expect to reduce the workforce by 27,000 positions through a combination of layoffs and early retirement.

Now the company wishes to reduce the workforce further still.

According to some reports it plans to reduce the workforce to 100,000.

Cryan is planning to reduce the workforce by a quarter, or 23,000 jobs, to bring costs down and avoid a fundraising from shareholders.

Its reorganisation of services will reduce the workforce by about a quarter.

Plans to reduce the workforce at the Dounreay nuclear site have been pushed back "a number of years".