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Screwed: Potential 4,000 in NYC

By Olga Tchoumak ⋅ 9:47 am May 1, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

screws2A daily review of the employment fallout around the country and the world.

 Mayor Bloomberg’s new plan may result in nearly 4,000 layoffs for New York City workers… Swiss Bank UBS has eliminated 2,000 U.S. employees as part of the downsizing plan they’d announced last month… NASA plans to cut 900 manufacturing jobs over the next several months…Chrysler plants across the country are bracing for the ripple effect of the company’s bankruptcy: yesterday the plant in Rogersville, MI shut down temporarily, idling 200 workers… Baldor Electric Co. has announced the coming layoffs of 122 workers… Flickr has been affected by the recent Yahoo layoffs and has lost a number of engineers, though the exact number has not yet been confirmed.

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

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