
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: SUNDAY, March 25, 1990                   TAG: 9003232186
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV1   EDITION: NEW RIVER 
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NEW RIVER INDUSTRY OPENINGS AND CLOSINGS

Dec. 7, 1989:Flow Laboratories Inc. in Dublin announces that it will close at the end of January, putting 74 workers out of manufacturing jobs.\ Dec. 20, 1989: Renfro, a hosiery manufacturer, announces it will expand and open a new plant in Pulaski, bringing with it 250 jobs.\ First week of January 1990: Federal Mogul puts 26 workers on indefinite layoff after shutting down production for a week in December.\ Jan. 7: C&P Telephone announces that it will open a directory assistance center in Pulaski, which will bring about 100 jobs.\ Jan. 24: AT&T announces that it will close its New River Valley Works, putting 1,000 workers out of jobs over the next 12 to 15 months.\ Jan. 25: Inland Motor in Radford lays off 40 people, effective today.\ Jan. 25: Industrial Drives terminated 24 of its 242 workers.\ Jan. 25: Volvo GM Heavy Trucks said it would give its 750 production workers in Dublin a one-week furlough next week, the second of the winter. All three companies blame the lack of work on a slump in sales.\ Jan. 30: Radford Army Ammunition Plant announces that it will be cutting back its work force by 300, but that the people will not be laid off - jobs will be lost through attrition.\ Feb. 3: Burlington Transportation announces the closing of its Dublin terminal, putting 100 out of work.\ Feb. 5: Grove Worldwide, a Pennsylvania company that manufactures aerial platforms, announces it will come to Salem, bringing 1,000 jobs over the next three years with its $18 million expansion. The company becomes the hope of many AT&T workers who will be laid off soon.\ Feb. 5: Federal Mogul lays off another 20 workers.\ Feb. 7: New River Industries announces that it will lay off 45 of its 450 employees so that the rest will have more secure jobs and full work weeks.\ Feb. 15: Virginia Tech announces that it will cut jobs through attrition to cope with a proposed state cut of $22 million in the school's budget over the next two years. Officials said the cuts will be permanent, but that they didn't know how many jobs would be eliminated. The annual employment turnover rate is 7 percent, or 350 jobs. Officials said faculty positions would be the last to be cut.\ Feb. 16: Radford University, which also will meet with state budget cuts, announces it also will be cutting jobs through attrition. Officials decided not to replace 10 vacant positions that include jobs like electricians and accounting clerks. They predicted that at least 25 similar jobs would be lost through attrition over the next year.\ Feb. 22: Radford Army Ammunition Plant, after deciding that the attrition rate is moving too slowly, lays off 70 workers.\ March 2: Federal Mogul announces that it will recall 25 workers.\ March 8: The Pulaski County School Board, citing decreased enrollment, announces that it will cut 20 teaching positions at the high school. Ten of the jobs probably will be lost through attrition, according to the school superintendent. The other 10 will be laid off.\ March 12: Federal Mogul announces it will recall another 4 workers. Company officials say they probably will rehire more workers, but not until August.

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