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Screwed: Possible 13,000 at Saturn
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Today’s Total: 15,184
GM’s plan to cease production of Saturn cars could lead to close to 13,000 job losses as dealers close around the country…Pratt & Whitney Canada will lay off 410 members of their workforce due to declining corporate jet sales…Arizona’s Department of Public Safety will lay off 400 employees due to budget cuts…Manganese Bronze Holdings is set to cut 400 workers from its plant in Coventry, England…Chrysler Financial announced plans to cut 360 employees from its headquarters in Detroit and other satellite offices…Windstream Corp. will lay off 350 employees nationwide…Midwest Airlines will cut 170 jobs by November…Force Protection Inc. handed out 120 layoff notices, impacting 10% of its workforce…Beckman Coulter will lay off 84 employees from offices in Fullerton and Brea, Calif…James E. Brown & Associates, a small law firm in Washington, D.C. was forced to lay off 10 employees after a payroll worker embezzled $1.2 million…The Blue Jays have cut an undisclosed number of business-side workers.
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