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Screwed: 2,500 at Sprint

By Arielle Shipper ⋅ 9:34 am November 10, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

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

Today’s Total: 7,281

The good news: Production is up at GM Canada which recalled 150 previously laid-off workers… A Toyota plant in Georgetown, Kent. also brought back 275 workers that had been let go last year.

Sprint announced its plans to trim its workforce by 2,500 by the end of the year… Electronic Arts will eliminate 1,500 jobs… Microsoft is scheduled to make 800 additional cuts to “adjust to economic conditions”… Pfizer sold its St. Louis operations to the Monsanto Company and expects 600 layoffs… PG&E will reduce its workforce by 500… The University of Nebraska system will be forced into 300 layoffs in response to budget cuts proposed by Governor Dave Heineman… Herbst Gaming handed out 200 pink slips after declaring bankruptcy… UniCare Life & Health Insurance will cut 187 jobs… A research subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson laid off 174 staffers in Penn. as part of a global restructuring program… Grand Rapids, Mich. is set to release a budget overhaul that calls for the elimination of up to 150 city workers… AOL will lay off 100 staff members… The Star Tribune of Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn. will lose 100 workers after declaring bankruptcy… Aluminum producer Ormet handed out 60 pink slips in Hannibal, Ohio… Nortel Networks Corp. has submitted a warn letter for the dismissal of 56 employees in Richardson, Texas… Day Pitney, a Hartford, Conn. based law firm, laid off 29 staff members last week… Raleigh-based PR company The Catevo Group will shut down by the end of this week and lay off its 25 full-time employees… Vodafone anticipates laying off more employees as a cost-cutting measure… Bombardier, the world’s third-largest aircraft maker, has plans for additional cuts in the works.

Are you one of the Screwed? Check out Recessionwire’s Laid Off 101. Read more about layoffs on the sites compiled on our layoff tracker page.

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