Screwed: 9,000 at E.ON

A daily review of the unemployment fallout across the country and the world.

Today’s partial total: 12,576

E.ON, one of the largest German power companies, plans to layoff 9,ooo employees…Michelin is set to layoff 1,500 employees in France…Lockheed Martin plans to layoff 750 employees…Nissan plans to layoff 580 workers in Spain, but is opposed by local unions…Myspace laid off 400 employees…Broward County leads the state of Florida in teacher layoffs with 396 teachers losing their jobs over last weekend…Jostens plans to close its Winston-Salem yearbook plant, costing 185 workers their jobs…University Hospitals in Iowa plan to layoff 120 employees…Dean Foods closes PET Dairy, costing 120 workers their jobs…General Motors closes 90 dealers in Pennsylvania…Girtz Industries is set to cut 60 jobs…Evonic Cyro is cutting 35 jobs in Sanford…Fox Interactive Media is laying off members of their corporate staff, but so far they’re keeping mum about the numbers.

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Screwed: 2,300 at UTStarcom

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

Today’s partial total: 7,587

UTStarcom is cutting 2,300 positions globally, over half of its employees, by the end of the fiscal year…American Airlines is set to slash 1,600 jobs…the City of Chicago is laying off 1,500 workers, 400 more than expected…Textron’s Cessna plans to cut 1,300 jobs, leaving the company with about half of its workforce…General Motors is laying off 887 workers in Wentzville and closing dealerships…

Media Just Wants to Be Free

You’ve slashed your entertainment budget to the bone. No more Friday night movies for you and you’re cutting off the digital cable. But you still need your Mad Men fix and you don’t want to miss the next Batman blockbuster. Thanks to the abundance of the Internet, you can scrap that entertainment budget altogether and go all-free-all-the-time. We’ve rounded up several sources that will keep your media habits intact without burning a hole in your wallet.

TV & Movies

Hulu.com – Why it’s great: New shows, old shows, 144 movies and trailers. The hitch: The new shows expire and the movies are cut with ads.

YouTube.com – Now home to more than just viral videos of six-year-olds talking about Darth Vader, YouTube has a movies and a television section from “old media.”

Freemooviesonline.com – If you’re a fan of the good, the bad and the extra-cheesy this website is for you. Uninterrupted streaming video of all the rubber-suited monsters and spaghetti westerns you could want.

Guba.com – This site has a good selection of streaming movies, especially anime and foreign films of the Asian persuasion. However, like most of the Internet, this site is 90% porn by volume…