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Screwed: 3,700 in the Air Force
A daily review of the employment fallout around the country and the world.
Today’s Total: 7,905
The Air Force will slash 3,700 active airmen from service… Sanofi-Aventis axed up to 1,500 salespeople… French perfume company Marionnaud plans to hand out 582 pink slips… JT Packard and Associates, Inc. gave notice to 300 employees… Massachusetts will lose 300 mental healthcare workers… US Airways plans to eliminate 261 staff members from its operations in La Guardia Airport… Talisman Energy Inc. slashed 220 Canadian workers as it “shifts its North American focus”… Georgia-Pacific laid off 158 people from its facility in Green Bay, Wis… Permanent TSB is set to reduce its workforce by 120… ACA Co-operative Ltd. will make redundant 110 workers at its poultry processing plant in Nova Scotia… The Royal Bank of Scotland made 108 additional cuts to asset financing unit Lombard… United Solar Ovonics cut 90 workers, or 25% of its workforce, at a Greenville, Mich. plant… Ad agency Ogilvy & Mather eliminated 90 positions across North America… BlackRock Inc. gave pink slips to 89 employees in San Francisco… Forest Laboratories Inc., a pharmaceutical producer, anticipates cutting 84 jobs from a packaging plant in Commack, N.Y… Western Dairy Transport let go of 75 workers after the expiration of a lucrative contract… Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico anticipates laying off 59 appointive state government employees to “help solve a budget shortfall”… Miller Electric Mfg. Co. attributed 35 recent job cuts to a drop in the demand for welding equipment… The Miami Herald laid off 24 staffers and shortened the full-time work week for others… The Washington Times anticipates “repositioning” and subsequent layoffs… Aer Lingus plans additional cuts.
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