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Screwed: 1,200 at 3M
A daily review of the employment fallout around the country and the world. 
The Minnesota-based 3M cuts 1,200 employees, 1.5 percent of its workforce, in another round of layoffs… Forbes media lays off another 50 employees… Michigan-based Cooper Standard Automotive Inc. gives another 49 workers the axe… Virginia’s VCU Health System cuts 30 positions instead of the promised 300… Biopharmaceutical company Genaera Corp. will cut 80 percent of its workforce by May 1st… Cessna Aircraft Co. warns of another round of layoffs in addition to the 4,600 let go since last November.
Read more about layoffs at the sites compiled on our layoff tracker page.
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