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Screwed: 461 at AT&T

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

Today’s Total: 1,082

AT&T plans to cut 461 Florida jobs in its land-line operation… Paul Mueller manufacturing plant is laying off between 150 and 200 production workers… ST-Ericsson will be downsizing its Swedish workforce by 150 employees… Colorado Springs will be laying off 93 city employees, with layoffs occurring this month and through next March… The Hawthorne Army Depot of Mineral County, Nevada has laid off 91 workers… Up to 50 employees of Montana’s Great Falls Clinic have been laid off… Ohio’s Highland Local Schools Board of Education is laying off 22 staff beginning Jan. 19… Integrated ad agency Mullen has handed out 15 pink slips this week at its Boston office, cutting 5 percent of its Boston workforce… Layoffs are imminent in Virginia’s Hampton Schools as they prepare for new budget cuts.

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