Last Friday evening\u00c2\u00a0August 14, I was informed by an unofficial source that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Big Dog Motorcycles was stopping production for the rest of the month of August 2009. That for the remainder of the year there\u00c2\u00a0will be temporary production furloughs. That a 20% pay reduction across the board\u00c2\u00a0was applied to all employees left after the layoffs\u00e2\u20ac\u0153.<\/p>\n
At my request,\u00c2\u00a0Paul Hansen, Marketing Director of Big Dog Motorcycles, sent me the following statement:<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Cyril. Thank you again for the opportunity to comment on the information you received regarding the recent announcement at Big Dog Motorcycles.\u00c2\u00a0As you know, the challenging economy continues to …\u00c2\u00a0 Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last Friday evening\u00c2\u00a0August 14, I was informed by an unofficial source that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Big Dog Motorcycles was stopping production for the rest of the month of August 2009. That for the remainder of the year there\u00c2\u00a0will be temporary production furloughs. That a 20% pay reduction across the board\u00c2\u00a0was applied to all employees left after the layoffs\u00e2\u20ac\u0153. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle","category-street-riding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19422,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19421\/revisions\/19422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}