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Screwed: 1,000 at GM
A daily review of the employment fallout around the country and the world.
Today’s Total: 2,208
GM will cut 1,000 white-collar employees by the end of this year… Monsanto will lay off 600 American workers as part of a plan to reduce its global workforce by 1,800… Deere & Co. is scheduled to lay off 367 employees at a plant in East Moline, Ill… The Kraft/Oscar Mayer factory in Madison, Wis. laid off 85 employees after a “seasonal” decline in hot dog sales… Portland State University plans to lay off 68 employees in order to trim $25 million from the annual budget… Bone Steel is slated to cut 40 U.K. factory workers… Western State Hospital in Staunton, Va. will lay off 25 employees due to state budget cuts… Walker Machinery cut 23 workers from its plant in Belle, W. Va…
Screwed: 3,000 City of Philadelphia Workers
A daily review of the employment fallout around the country and the world.
Today’s Total: 4,706
Philadelphia’s mayor announced that 3,000 city workers will receive layoff notices next week… 645 Harley-Davidson workers will lose their jobs when the company shuts down a plant and distribution center in Wisconsin… Virginia is slated to cut its workforce by 593 employees… Valero will close its Delaware City refinery, laying off 150 full-time employees and 100 contract workers… HSBC laid off 90 employees in the United Arab Emirates… Capgemini Energy will cut its Dallas office staff by 85… Jobs and Family Services of Clark County, Ohio, has announced its intent to lay off 33 employees after budget cuts by the state… Provident Financial Inc. will liquidate assets and lay off its 10 employees…
Screwed: 1,500 at American Apparel
A daily review of the employment fallout around the country and the world.
Today’s Total: 5,087
American Apparel will cut 1,500 illegal workers from its downtown Los Angeles factory… Continental Automotive Systems will lay off 1,000 employees and close its plant in Huntsville, Ala… Rhode Island Governor Don Carcieri announced plans to cut 1,000 state workers… Suncor will lay off 1,000 employees after a merger with Petro-Canada… BAE Systems will cut 360 staff members from its operation in Santa Clara, Calif… The Archdiocese of Detroit will lay off 77 workers… 63 employees of Aurora, Ill. will be laid off… Store Kraft Manufacturing will “temporarily” cut 60 production employees from its Beatrice, Neb… Microsoft will lay off 27 workers from offices in Redmond and Bellevue, Wash…
Adventures in Babysitting
If you want to find a babysitter in New York, you can go to myJambi.com, enter your specific needs and get an instant list of qualified sitters who match your criteria. You can check out their profiles and read reviews and ratings by other parents. Or, if you want a plumber in Chicago, a landscaper in Portland, or a Web designer in Santa Fe, myJambi can help out with that, too.
But myJambi, a three year old New York-based company, has only its three founders to turn to when a job needs getting done these days.
Poised for serious growth only a matter of months ago, those plans are now on hold. The company’s five full-time employees were let go. Big plans to expand into numerous service categories are being honed to a handful, with a big emphasis on babysitting. And the number of cities it serves has also been greatly pared back. Meanwhile, the company’s three co-founders, who had graduated to managerial roles, are now back to the grunt work of coding, design work and trafficking ad orders…
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