As a result, employees implemented a four-day workweek after the normal factory shutdown at Christmas 2005.

And the Commerce Department assists communities suffering factory shutdowns or base closings by subsidizing investment in infrastructure and other development projects.

The gentle persuasion came in the United States' emphasis on "market-based" reductions rather than government-ordered factory shutdowns.

The factory shutdown will eliminate nearly 10,000 jobs, a quarter of its work force, over the next three years.

He is advocating a national law that would require companies to give notice of an impending factory shutdown.

At G.M., for example, long factory shutdowns to prepare for some new models deprived dealers of crucial products.

But revenues declined slightly from the first quarter because of factory shutdowns to prepare for new models that restrained sales from factories to dealers.

It is also planning a series of factory shutdowns during the fourth quarter.

Wildly fluctuating demand, combined with this excess inventory, leads to costly overtimes and factory shutdowns.

And we're learning about the problems they face, the firings, the factory shutdowns.