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Screwed: 600 at Continental Airlines

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

Today’s Total: 1, 277

Continental Airlines is eliminating 600 reservation agents by April 11 since online flight-booking has surpassed call-in reservations…In Houston, TX, Innovative Consultants LLC are cutting 287 jobs this month…Last week, Monster Worldwide Inc. began laying off 200 employees out of their 5,600 global workforce…In Illinois, Bunge North America will cut production of a soybean production line by April 23, and laying off 100 employees in the process…Meanwhile, Goodrich Crop is cutting 60 workers at a manufacturing plant in Virginia…In North Carolina, Invista will be eliminating 30 jobs in the next 60 days as it shuts down a production line.

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