Screwed: 554 at Farmer’s Insurance Group

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Today’s Total: 679

Farmer’s Insurance Group (FIG) plans 554 layoffs by the end of this year… Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSC) is laying off up to 40 employees… Raven Software is laying of up to 35 employees… The University of Illinois is laying off 32 Global Campus staff… Another 18 workers will face layoffs in the city of Chicago… Real estate investment trust Cousins Properties Inc. has cut its corporate staff by 10 percent…

Screwed: 400 at Bay Shipbuilding

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Today’s Total: 1,031

Bay Shipbuilding in Sturgeon Bay may lay off more than 400 employees by this fall… Hawker Beechcraft Corp. has laid off 300 employees in Kansas…Maryland budget cuts include 205 layoffs…

Screwed: 1,600 at California Department of Corrections

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Today’s Total: 1,894

The California Department of Corrections will issue 1,300 new layoff notices in Sacramento, Amador, Fresno and elsewhere…Exterran Holdings Inc. will lay off 274 employees after closing 4 facilities in Texas… Alemite, a grease gun manufacturer in northerneast Tennessee, will lay off 119 workers by November… Nestaway Wire Company is laying off 116 workers in Carroll County …

Screwed: 300 at Gerdau Ameristeel

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Today’s total: 519

Gerdau Ameristeel has notified 300 employees at its Sand Springs steel mill of impending layoffs… A Smithfield Foods Inc. subsidiary is laying off 117 employees in Texas… Wells Fargo is closing a mortgage processing center in Durham, laying off 62 workers in the process… Waynesboro’s Mohawk flooring plant will lay off up to 40 workers by friday…

Some good news: No more major layoffs for Fidelity Investments…

Screwed: 800 at Lockheed Martin

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Today’s Partial Total: 2,293

Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co. has announced 800 layoffs… Ryanair Plc is cutting routes out of England’s Manchester Airport, resulting in 600 layoffs… Sovereign Bancorp has laid off 517 Pennsylvania employees… New Flyer Industries Inc. is laying off 320 workers from Winnipeg and Minnesota… President of Fresno State warns of another 50 staff cuts… Salon has laid off 6 editorial staff as it tries to become a “true Web publication”…

Screwed: 1,850 at Kaiser Permanente

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Today’s Partial Total: 2,547

Kaiser Permanente notifies 1,850 employees in Southern and Northern California of impending layoffs… The parent company of Blue Cross Blue Shield in Illinois is laying off 650 employees… Findlay, Ohio may be laying off 47 city workers if their new budget plan is implemented… GRIN, a Stotockholm-based developer, is experiencing another round of layoffs…

Screwed: 450 at American Centrifuge Project

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Today’s Partial Total: 862

Some good news: L.B. White, in Onalaska, is rehiring workers that were temporarily laid off in March.

American Centrifuge Project facilities in Oak Ridge have notified 450 workers of impending layoffs… Up to 255 state workers face unemployment in Pennsylvania… Whiskey producer Whyte & Mackay is laying off up to 100 Scotland workers…

Screwed: 400 at Mohawk Industries

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Today’s Partial Total: 746

Mohawk Industries are laying off 400 workers in Dublinl, Georgia between now and March 2010… Global chemical company Celanese Corp. plans to lay off 100 North Carolina employees… Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is laying off 92 employees, 6.2 percent of the Journal Sentinel workforce… Pittsburgh-based bank, PNC, will lay off 74 employees in Miamisburg, Ohio… Altera Corp is cutting about 3 percent of its workforce, approximately 80 people…

Screwed: 1,000 or more in Illinois

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Today’s Partial Total: 1,489

Several Illinois correctional facilities will be laying off 1,000+ employees during the next few months… BAE Systems will be laying off 259 employees beginning this September… Virginia International Terminals Inc. is laying off 90 employees, a first in its company’s history… The nonprofit organization Rainbow United is selling two buildings and laying off 70 staff members… Soda ash producer FMC Wyoming Corp. is leaving 70 employees out of work this fall… General Motors may once again be laying off thousands of factory workers in the near future…

Screwed: 1,800 at Ashland Inc.

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Today’s Total: 2,222

Ashland Inc. plans to cut 1,800 positions by the end of the 2010 fiscal year… In another round of layoffs, Power-One Inc. has let go off 300 employees… True Textile plant lays off 84 workers in Elkin, North Carolina… OCI Chemical Corp. is laying off 38 workers from its soda ash plant in Wyoming…