The Working World

Screwed: 1,700 at Corus

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

Today’s Total: 2,754

Some good news: Aurora union has agreed to concessions and avoided layoffs.

Steel manufacturer Corus is cutting 1,700 jobs in 2010… In an effort to restructure, solar power company Energy Conversion Devices is slashing its workforce by 400 jobs… Thomson Reuters Corp. will eliminate 240 jobs in its legal businesses… As part of its restructuring process after the purchase of Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer is laying off 200 workers from the Pearl River facility formerly owned by Wyeth, effective Mar. 12… Abbott Laboratories has let go of 80 temporary employees from its medical devices factory in Temecula, CA… In another round of layoffs this year, Zymogenics is cutting 52 jobs, a 15 percent workforce reduction… 36 teachers in the Saugerties school district are in danger of facing midyear layoffs… The Upper Deck Co. LLC is instituting 33 employee layoffs beginning on Jan. 11… The Motion Picture &Television Fund has laid off 13 staff in its nursing, disease management, and hospitality departments.

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