BAE Systems, an international defense contractor, is laying off 360 of the 1,800 workers at its Santa Clara plant that designs military vehicles.
The reductions at BAE follow several hundred recent job cuts at Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co. in Sunnyvale, as defense programs pushed by the Bush administration are cut by President Obama. |
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Margaret Bassett passed away August 21, 2011. She was a treasured member of the Opednews.com editorial team for four years.
Margaret Bassett--OEN editor--is an 89-year old, currently living in senior housing, with a lifelong interest in political philosophy. Bachelors from State University of Iowa (1944) and Masters from Roosevelt University (1975) help to unravel important requirements for modern communication. Early introduction to computer science (1966) trumps them. It's payback time. She's been "entitled" so long she hopes to find some good coming off the keyboard into the lives of those who come after her.