Gillette Stadium Workers Getting Pink Slips
5 Percent Of Stadium Workforce Cut, Spokesman Says
POSTED: 3:12 pm EST November 14,
2008
UPDATED: 5:22 pm EST November 14,
2008
BOSTON -- Dozens of people working at Gillette Stadium will be losing their jobs, a spokesman for the New England Patriots aid Friday.
Gillette Stadium Workers Get Pink SlipsThe cuts involve 5 percent of the full-time event staffing for Gillette Stadium, a holding of the Kraft Group, according to the New England Patriots' executive director of media relations, Stacey James.The employees staff football games, soccer games, concerts, trade shows and all other events, James said. The layoffs affect people who work at the facility all year, not temporary workers who are brought in to work during special events.The staffs of the Patriots and New England Revolution soccer team were not affected, James said.Patriot Place, a new retail and entertainment facility near the stadium, is doing well, James said.
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