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Screwed: 5,000 at Goodyear

A daily review of the employment fallout around the country and the world.

Five thousand will be laid off from Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., which lost $330 million in the fourth quarter. … A restructuring of the pork group at Smithfield Foods means 1,800 will lose their jobs. … Montreal publisher Transcontinental will cut 1,500 jobs. … To trim its operating budget after a 47 percent income loss in the first quarter, Agilent Technologies will lay off 600 people. … On the heels of a soft Q4, Ingram Micro cuts 300 jobs.

Read about more layoffs on the sites compiled on our layoff tracker page.

Tags: layoffs, The Unemployed Life