Angela Gabrielle Fabunan
Screwed: Possible 4,500 in Jackson Health System
A daily review of the employment fallout around the country and the world.
Today’s Total: 5,076
The Jackson Health System in Florida is considering cutting a whopping 4,500 jobs and two hospitals to close its budget gap…In San Francisco, bio-tech company Exelixis Inc will cut 270 jobs, currently 40 percent of their workforce…In Tennessee, Ford Motor Credit Co. plans to lay off 200 employees by the end of the month…General Dynamics Robotics Systems handed pink slips to 90 employees yesterday, whose last day will be on May 6…
Screwed: 500 at Vodafone
A daily review of the employment fallout around the country and the world.
Today’s Total: 887
Vodafone will make 500 job cuts throughout the UK as efforts to cut £1 billion in company costs…In LA County, 300 Los Angeles Supreme Court employees will be handed notices by March 16 about subsequent unemployment on April 1st…In South Carolina, the Union County School District plan to layoff 30 employees by next year…In California, the Calaveras Unified School District will hand out pink slips to 24 teachers by March 15…In other school layoffs news, the Dinwiddie School Board in Virginia decided on a budget cut yesterday, resulting 23 layoffs, including 10 teaching positions…In Texas, Sigma-Herron laid off 10 workers in a pharmaceutical plant this morning.
Screwed: 100 at BAE Systems
A daily review of the employment fallout around the country and the world.
Today’s Total: 293
BAE Systems plans to layoff 100 workers in Ohio after losing contract deals… In Arkansas, Commercial Metals Co are cutting up to 60 jobs by April 29… Eastern Maine Medical Center plan to lay off about 50 employees by March 19… Meanwhile, Kingsburg District Hospital in California announced plans to cut a nursing unit and lay off 50 employees… In New Jersey, South Orange Maplewood School District will be laying off 29 employees in the coming months… In Morristown, 4 city employees were laid off yesterday…
Screwed: Possible 4,000 in LA
A daily review of the employment fallout around the country and the world.
Today’s Total: 5,214
Due to the devastating budget of Los Angeles, as many as 20 percent of all public library staff will be laid off, as well as 15 percent of the police force, culminating in possible layoffs of 4,000 city employees… In Toronto, Aveos Fleet Performance Inc will be laying off 1,000 airline machinists in the next few months… Chicago Transit Authority handed out pink slips to 99 employees over the weekend, marking the last batch of 1,067 CTA employees without jobs… In California, Salinas City may lay off 40 city employees as part of a proposed balanced-budget plan… In Ottawa, Caesars Windsor plans on cutting 45 jobs… In Nevada, Carson City may face a job cut of 30 employees due to a budget deficit…
Screwed: Possible 23,000 at NASA
A daily review of the employment fallout around the country and the world.
Today’s Total: 23,816
Obama’s proposed budget for NASA may cost as many as 23,000 jobs, from 9,000 “direct” space jobs and 14,000″indirect” hotel and restaurant positions…IBM Australia‘s decision to outsource to India and China may cause 800 local jobs…In California, Menlo Park City School District will lay off 8 teachers in the process of reducing funding for art, physical education, and Spanish programs…In Virginia, Monticello plans on cutting city funding for its police force today and phasing out the department entirely by July 1, and laying off 8 police officers in the process…ABC News will be cutting 20 percent of their news staff due to the impact of new technologies in the industry…
Screwed: 52 at Pfizer
A daily review of the employment fallout around the country and the world.
Today’s Total:
In New York, Pfizer announced yesterday a job cut of 52 employees by April 21…The Oregonian gave pink slips to 37 workers yesterday, primarily from the news department…At the Rhode Island School for the Deaf, all 35 teachers may face unemployment for not meeting qualifications required by federal law, and the state has asked the school to submit a new staffing plan by June 1…In Wildwood, NJ, 30 city employees received layoff notices yesterday…Meanwhile, in Ithica, NY, Steuben Glass will layoff an undetermined number of employees by this summer as part of their restructuring plan.
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.
Screwed: 1,020 at Boeing
A daily review of the employment fallout around the country and the world.
Today’s Total: 1,196
Boeing gave 60-day layoff notices to 1,020 workers in Washington, California, and St. Louis, Missouri last Friday as part of a larger plan to cut 10,000 jobs…In Nevada, Anheuser-Busch InBev cut 90 jobs last week and plans on cutting another 350 in the next few months…In Williston, VT, Triosyn laid off 35 employees and attributed the decision to a low demand of their anti-bacterial product caused by the marked end of the swine flu pandemic…In California, the city of Corona eliminated 31 government workers and a few city buildings…After having cut more than a quarter of their workforce, Viking Range Corp in Mississippi laid off another 20 employees.
Screwed: 3,100 in Texas
A daily review of the employment fallout around the country and the world.
Today’s Total: 5,976
Texas legislature proposed a cost-cutting plan to close privately-run prisons, cutback in treatment and rehabilitation programs, and eliminate 3,100 state correction employees…Yesterday, Humana Inc. announced its plan to layoff 2,500 employees, 5 percent of its total workforce, by the end of this year…Cal State East Bay is considering a job-cut of 140 non-teaching staff…In California, Pajaro Valley Unified School District approved a plan to layoff 130 employees in MarchIn Pennsylvania, Moses Taylor Hospital gave pink slips to 61 workers in their first round of layoffs in 17 years…In Florida, Tampa City Hall plans on laying off 30 finance employees in the city’s budget office by next week…In Philadelphia, Kimmel Center Inc. plans on cutting 15 jobs as part of a restructured budget plan.
Screwed: 400 in Montgomery, Alabama
A daily review of the employment fallout around the country and the world.
Today’s total: 781
In the Montgomery Alabama School District, 400 jobs may be cut due to decreased funding from the state for the next fiscal year…Yesterday, New York’s St. Vincent’s Hospital laid off 300 workers in order to prevent closure…In Tulsa, Oral Roberts University announced a “rightsizing” plan to lay off 50 non-faculty positions across several departments…In another round of school budget cuts, Stafford County announced plans to eliminate 31 employees by April 1…Throughout the Jackson Health System, hospitals prepare to announce widespread layoffs today, though the numbers are still uncertain…
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