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Screwed: 1,000 at GM

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

Today’s Total: 2,208

GM will cut 1,000 white-collar employees by the end of this year… Monsanto will lay off 600 American workers as part of a plan to reduce its global workforce by 1,800… Deere & Co. is scheduled to lay off 367 employees at a plant in East Moline, Ill… The Kraft/Oscar Mayer factory in Madison, Wis. laid off 85 employees after a “seasonal” decline in hot dog sales… Portland State University plans to lay off 68 employees in order to trim $25 million from the annual budget… Bone Steel is slated to cut 40 U.K. factory workers… Western State Hospital in Staunton, Va. will lay off 25 employees due to state budget cuts… Walker Machinery cut 23 workers from its plant in Belle, W. Va.

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