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Feb 12, 2009 12:00 AM
About 850 non-union employees at the port of Seattle have been asked to take two weeks of unpaid leave this year as part of a plan designed to avert redundancies.
Half the port's 1,700 workers are unionised, and this group has been asked to devise a similar plan.
Facing a budget shortfall of US$9m this year amid falling container volumes, the US Pacific northwest port is paring back travel budgets...
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