Screwed: 5,000 at Mahindra Satyam

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Today’s Total: 5,940

Mahindra Satyam may lay off 5,000 benchers after assuring that there would be no more layoffs…CNH announces plans to lay off 300 staff members… Georgia-Pacific will lay off 300 workers… International Paper in Oregon lays off 230 workers… Quest plans to lay off 60 staffers in its Wallingford, Conn., testing facility… Workforce Solutions will lay off 50 employees…

Screwed: 550 at Sanmina-SCI

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Today’s Total: 1,836

Some good news: Volkswagen taking applications for 1200 jobs…

And the bad: Sanmina-SCI plans to lay off 550 employees in Hungary… Alstom announces plans to lay off 502 employees… Verizon lays off 266 workers… GM anticipates 300 layoffs in Mexico… Smith Medical PM Inc. plans to lay off 100 employees… Capital Hill Publications lays off 44 staff members… Mueller Industries cuts 37 workers…

Screwed: 1,800 at American Apparel

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Today’s Total: 2,386

American Apparel is forced to lay off 1800 workers… The United Space Alliance, Kennedy Space Center’s largest contractor, lays off over 258 employees… Prairie Correctional plans to lay off 120 workers…Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota lays off 100 employees… Swan Hose Co. lays off 72 employees at an Ohio plant… The San Francisco SPCA plans to cut 22 full-time positions… Livonia, Michigan faces 14 layoffs to compensate for state budget cuts…

Screwed: 400 in Honolulu, Hawaii

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Today’s Total: 1,256

Some good news: CGI Group, Inc. is building a new software development and testing facility in Alabama, creating 300 new white collar jobs…Hyatt Hotels Corp. extends offer to 98 recently fired housekeepers... Townsend, Inc. creates 103 new jobs with the help of a $250,00 grant from the One North Carolina initiative.

And the bad: Honolulu, Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle announces 400 states workers will lose their jobs… Black Leisure may lay off 400 UK jobs… Beaumont Hospitals cut 353 jobs in Michigan… Day & Zimmermann Inc. announces at least 80 layoffs by Wednesday… The St. Mary’s County Health Department is laying off 12 employees next month… Virginia Beach Courts lays off 11 workers…

Screwed: 419 at Illinois Department of Corrections

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Today’s Total: 1,040

The Illinois Department of Corrections is scheduled to lay off 419 workers at the end of this month… Boeing lays off another 250 workers… USEC Inc. lays off 163 workers due to a scale back on its American Centrifuge Project… Laika lays off 65 workers… The Hinds County Board of Supervisors cuts 48 jobs to aid in a $2 million budget savings… Pella Corporation cuts 37 jobs at its Sioux City, Iowa plant…General Cable hands out 36 layoff notices …

Screwed: 367 at Deere & Co.

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Today’s Total: 784

Net Jets will cut up to 350 jobs while the company undergoes reorganization under new CEO David Sokol… Alaska Railroad plans to lay off 143 employees due to dwindling revenues… AstraZeneca has announced plans to lay off 113 employees at its manufacturing plant in Westborough, Mass… Boys and Girls Club of Edmonton, AB Canada will lay off 100 workers due to a $30,000 cut in provincial funding… Harley Davidson will shut down its Wisconsin assembly plant for the last two months of 2009 and temporarily lay off 52 employees… The Langley School District in Edmonton, AB Canada will lay off 26 staff members due to a multimillion-dollar budget shortfall linked to accounting errors…

Screwed: 6,000 at Fin Air

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Today’s total: 8,850

Fin Air plans to layoff 6,000 workers for a few weeks at a time for periods of about two weeks to aid in savings of euro100 million… State of Illinois union officials will lay off at least 1,000 state workers during negotiations with AFSCME… Vodafone Ghana announces plans to layoff 950 workers in accordance with negotiations between Ghana Telecommunications (GT) Company Limited and the Communications Workers Union of GTUC in a Collective Bargaining Agreement… Four Mepz have laid off 700 workers by four garment factories in the Mactan Export Processing Zone… Iberia plans to lay off more than 100 directors for the company’s new managerial structure… Century Link will close its Embarq Corp. inbound call center in New Bern, North Carolina and lay off 100 employees…