WASHINGTON, D.C.—Eight hundred dislocated workers at Lucent Technologies Inc. will benefit from a $42.9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor made available under the National Emergency Grant program.
Reps. John Tierney and Marty Meehan and Sen. Edward Kennedy secured the money for the workers for career counseling, job training and placement.
“These are skilled workers who have made extraordinary contributions to the success of the company, and they now face, through no fault of their own, concerns about maintaining a living wage, adequate health care and pension security for themselves and their families,” said Tierney. “We owe them no less than to smooth their path to new jobs.”
