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Screwed: 11,600 at United Technologies

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

United Technologies , the conglomerate owner of Otis, Carrier, Pratt & Whitney, Sikorsky, and Hamilton Sundstrand, lays off 11,600…Los Angeles school system serves approximately 9,000 employees with a warning layoff notice…of the approximately 1,000 educators from Sweden’s National Union of Teachers that have been given notice of impending layoffs, 300 have gotten the axe… AOL proceeds with plan to fire 700 people by the end of March…The Toro Company in Wisconsin is temporarily laying off 235 employees…UK publisher MEN Media cuts 150 jobs…The State Media Co., another company under the McClathy Co. umbrella, puts 38 employees (11% of its workforce) out of jobs.

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

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