Texas Worker

Let’s not be embarrassed for Mr. Rodney Delfantiez of Seguin, who is listed by FirstUSA as the ninth largest employer in Texas. Rather let’s celebrate the luck of the entrepreneur who gets a wind of good luck some days and winds up more famous than he expected.
To be sure, Alloy Wheel Repair Specialists (AWRS) [...]

By Greg Moses
CounterPunch / DissidentVoice / TheRagBlog
As legend has it, the economic history of the USA was changed on the day that economist Art Laffer drew his famous “Laffer Curve” upon a napkin in order to convince Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld that President Gerald Ford’s tax hikes would be a mistake. What the curve [...]

Jobs at the FirstUSA-rated eighth-largest employer in Texas got hit by a hurricane in 2008. Before Hurricane Ike hit on Sept. 13 the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston had 12,588 employees. As of Feb. 28, 2009 UTMB had restored 10,778 of those jobs.
At Thanksgiving 2008, UTMB announced 3,000 layoffs. By [...]

The seventh largest employer in Texas, as rated by InfoUSA is another legendary name in American business, Electronic Data Systems (EDS). The company’s 10-K of Feb. 2008, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), states that the Plano, Texas company, “EDS and its subsidiaries employed approximately 139,500 persons in the United States and [...]

Lockheed Martin (LMT) takes sixth place as Texas’ largest employer according to InfoUSA (after fourth and fifth place MD Anderson).
The stock of LMT jumped from $67 to $73 in early April when Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said he would, “recommend increasing the buy of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter from the 14 [...]

InfoUSA rates the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston as Texas top employers number four and five (counted twice under slightly different names). It is one of the great institutional cities of the Texas landscape, as any Google street view of 1515 Holcombe Ave. will confirm. It is big enough to count twice.
It [...]

To begin reviewing the situation of the Texas Worker, we looked for the top employers in the state. The most authoritative source that we found was the federally sponsored website careeronestop. Following the listing of top employers that is backed up by research from infoUSA, we looked at Alcon (ACL), Dell (DELL), and [...]

We now turn attention to Aegon (AEG), the company listed by the federally sponsored careeronestop website as the third largest employer in Texas. According to careeronestop, Aegon USA employs 13,000.
Beginning with Form 20-F filed on March 31 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), “the AEGON Group, is one of the world’s largest listed [...]

According to Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on March 26, 2009, Dell (DELL) makes the following report on employment:
“At the end of Fiscal 2009, we had approximately 78,900 total employees (consisting of 76,500 regular employees and 2,400 temporary employees), compared to approximately 88,200 total employees (consisting of 82,700 regular employees [...]

Yesterday we ping-ponged between the federally-endorsed “careeronestop” website and the corporate pages of Alcon (ACL) in pursuit of a better understanding of the company listed as the top employer in Texas.
Today we’re going to try to wise up a bit and look at the Annual Reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). [...]