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Screwed: 800 in the London Underground

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

Today’s Total: 1,794

London Underground transportation has planned 800 worker layoffs… 750 workers of Toyota Motor Corp.‘s Britain plants are faced with early retirement as Toyota ends its work-sharing system…the Honolulu Advertiser is letting go 600… 202 employees are let go from IBM in the latest round of layoffs…Hemet Unified School District in California is sending preliminary layoff slips to 130 teachers…the Oceanside Unified School District in north San Diego County plans to cut 117 teaching positions…Las Vegas labor unions have not agreed to concessions, a decision which will result in 100 municipal layoffs… In an effort to cut expenses in the 2010-2011 school year, Seattle Public Schools have given layoff notices to 90 staff members.

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