Sentence examples for workers closing from inspiring English sources

DuPont is lowering costs by laying off workers, closing plants and shedding businesses.

Most companies have already started laying off workers, closing plants and selling boats to cover their losses, which reached around 15% of sales in 2007.

Spanish unions claimed that their general strike had been observed by 80 per cent of workers, closing most schools and reducing hospitals to a skeleton staff.

NASA sent home nearly all its 12,000 workers, closing all its space shuttle operations and its main spaceport at the Kennedy Space Center.

But, as the experience of medika mamba demonstrates, it is a risky policy for Haitian workers – closing the factory would have cost 42 local jobs, and hundreds of Haitian peanut farmers would have lost a reliable buyer.

Employers had threatened to escalate the dispute by locking out about 3,000 union workers, closing nearly all Norway's oil and gas wells in the North Sea and Norwegian Sea.

Striking Greek Culture Ministry workers closed the Acropolis and hundreds of other cultural sites yesterday.

The receiver has also laid off city workers, closed the city's library and shuttered a popular community center.

That forced Jefferson County to slash its budget by nearly a third: it laid off more than 500 workers, closed several court houses, and stopped maintaining its roads.

Some of the "man camps" that housed temporary workers closed as companies laid off the oil-field workers who installed rigs.

"Gazprom is a reliable supplier of energy," a spokesman, Sergei V. Kupriyanov, said in a statement released after workers closed valves at two pipelines feeding Ukraine.