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Screwed: 500 at Boeing

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

Today’s total: 1,576

Boeing gave layoff notices to 500 workers Friday…Pennsylvania’s Department of Agriculture will cut 255 jobs…News Corp. is expected to let go 200 people from Star TV Asia in Hong Kong…UPS is laying off 200 workers in Ireland…Dutch semiconductor maker ASM is slashing 106 jobs by closing its Phoenix facility…Bashas’ grocery chain in Arizona is closing two stories and eliminating 102 positions….Greenheck in Wisconsin is giving 91 recalled employees a double-whammy, laying them off again…Louis J. Kennedy Trucking is laying off 52 truckers in Pennsylvania…Mohawk Industries plans to let go 40 workers in Virginia…Bell Helicopters in Texas is cutting 30 jobs.

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