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Screwed: 4,000 at General Motors
A daily review of the employment fallout around the country and the world.
Today’s partial total: 7,914
General Motors plans to layoff 4,000 more employees…Namibia’s diamond sector lost a total of 1,900 jobs…Sumco Pheonix is closing its Maineville, costing over 600 workers their jobs…Michigan State University is considering laying off approximately 590 members of its staff…Hav-A-Tampa is closing a cigar factory and laying off 500 workers…Myspace continues its layoffs internationally, with 300 overseas more jobs gone…Harvard University is laying off 275 employees…Georgiana Lumber Mill closed, leaving 265 without jobs…The Metropolitan Museum of New York laid off 74 workers and intends to layoff as many 250 people before the end of the summer.
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The people who got laid off may want to check out FiredNetwork because it provides resources on (un)employment in addition to your excellent Laid Off 101 guide.
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First tobacco, then soft drinks, then chips and junk food… it’s all an agenda to push the healthcare bill through.
Where are the no new taxes for the middle class?? This is a huge tag on the lower and middle classes.
Hey, this is like 1984 isn’t it? Tax and monitor..
-J Bangs
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