But in 2009, American Apparel was forced to fire 1,800 skilled workers after an immigration inspection uncovered questionable employment documents.
Rex B. Mann, an area commander for the Forest Service brought in from Kentucky to help fight the Montana fires, said skilled firefighters were in short supply.
But its employment practices came at a price — in 2009, the company fired 1,800 skilled workers after an immigration inspection uncovered questionable employment documents.
All but one of the 20 members of the team, a highly skilled fire suppression squad known as the Granite Mountain Hotshots, lost their lives that day in the mountains 32 miles southwest of Prescott.
A compulsive gambler, it took fallen pipes, fire drills and skilled negotiators to get her out of the building.
But fewer people noticed that he also periodically — though inconsistently — trained his fire on higher-skilled immigrant workers.
Don't have faith in the ability of our free-market system to convert those fired people including smart, skilled defense contractors into rehired private-sector workers?
It made the job of the pilots - who, in addition, had to avoid enemy fire - an especially skilled and arduous one.
He is highly skilled in fire twirling.
He became skilled at firing Russian-made rocket-propelled grenades, and he was sent to fight, and train others, in Kashmir, Bosnia, Chechnya and Afghanistan.
