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Screwed: 982 at Ormet Corp.

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

Today’s total: 1,760

982 employees at Ormet Corp. in Ohio were given notice this week they could soon be out of work…The American Automobile Association plans to lay off 322 employees…Clarcor will lay off 150 workers at its Rockford, Ill., plant…100-plus people at Shorewood Packaging in Newport News, Va. will lose their jobs by September…Saint-Gobain ceramics in West Virginia is canning 70 workers…MeadWestvaco plans to lay off 45 workers in the next two months and 25 more by the end of the year…about 50 executives could lose their jobs at Petro-Canada as the  oil and gas company merges with Suncor Energy…STEP Inc. in Pennsylvania is cutting 36 workers…Lake County, Ill. is axing 18 jobs…the Sheriff’s Office in Coshocton County, Ohio will have to let go seven employees.

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