No-tell Dell
Dell is laying off more workers.
The new reductions in the computer maker's workforce have come only weeks after the previous ones.
As in the first case, Dell won't say how many, responding to reporters' questions in game-show fashion..
"You can say it is manufacturing and related jobs," Venancio Figueroa III, a Dell spokesman said. "Beyond that, we are not going to provide specifics."
Is it bigger than a bread box?
This, of course, means no one can tell if the company is fulfilling the conditions of local and state incentives for its Forsyth plant.
The company keeps kicking sand in the faces and local and state governments. And they keep responding like 98-pound weaklings.
Update: Winston-Salen Mayor Allen Joines has called for Dell to release the layoff figures.
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As I recall, Dell's incentives from the state were expressed in terms of computers made, not people employed. But even if the state does need to know the precise level of employment at the Dell plant, it can get those numbers in-house from the Employment Security Commission.
But Winston-Salem has no ESC, and its incentives package requires a minimum level of employment. Not only have I been wondering why Dell thought it was a good idea to stonewall the city on its request for numbers, but why it thought it could get away with it. Incentives packages are essentially contracts between the company and the granting body, and hence there's a duty to confirm performance. Perhaps Dell could request a closed meeting to disclose what it clearly sees as proprietary (i.e. private) information.
Posted on April 4, 2009 9:20 PM