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mancus@bnr.ca (Cathy Mancus) wrote:
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>In article <46r62e$25c@crchh327.rich.bnr.ca>, Jeff Wilson <jdwilson@bnr.ca> writes:
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>> I can say this for Houston, though.  Following the big lay-off in '93,
>> engineers were a dime a dozen.  When the contractors began re-hiring, the
>> layed-off folks were chomping at lower salaries to get employment again.
>
>  Tell me more about the big lay-off of '93.  I left Houston/JSC in
>August '93, so I guess I squeaked out ahead of it.  What percentages
>of what contracts were cut?
>

I can't give you actual numbers, but some percentages.  As a whole, approx
50% of the station work force was cut.  My company, CAE-Link, lost 30%.
Grumman lost about 70%.  McD, I've been told, lost about 50% also (but
you should know better than I :) ).  Civil cervants lost were small.  I
believe only about 10-20% were "moved to other projects".  Other, smaller
contractors, Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Eagle, part of the training contract,
lost 60-70%.  IBM lost a good share too, but I'm not privy to total numbers
here.  IBM's personnel were spread over several contracts (SSVTF (the trainer),
FSW, on-board computers, and maybe others).  

The layoff began in September and continued through October...you just missed
it.  

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