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Screwed: 800 in the London Underground
A daily review of the employment fallout around the country and the world.
Today’s Total: 1,942
London Underground transportation has planned 800 worker layoffs… 750 workers of Toyota Motor Corp.’s Britain plants are faced with early retirement as Toyota ends its work-sharing system… 202 employees are let go from IBM in the latest round of layoffs… Las Vegas labor unions have not agreed to concessions, a decision which will result in 100 municipal layoffs… In an effort to cut expenses in the 2010-2011 school year, Seattle Public Schools have given layoff notices to 90 staff members.
Screwed: 1,019 in Long Beach Unified School District
A daily review of the employment fallout around the country and the world.
Today’s Total: 1,338
The Long Beach Unified School District this week starting giving layoff warning notices to 1,019 employees, mostly teachers…The Pasadena Unified School District is cutting more than 164 jobs to help close a huge budget gap…
Screwed: 2,000 at Chevron
A daily review of the employment fallout around the country and the world.
Today’s Total: 5,788
Chevron will lay off 2,000 workers this year… The financial crisis described by Westchester County Exec Rob Astorino may result in up to 1,600 county layoffs… Irish airline Aer Lingus is laying off 670 employees under a new restructuring plan…the Montgomery County Public School System in Alabama is axing 600 people…St. Mary’s paper in Canada will let go 300….Ceva Logistics in Indiana is letting go all 200 employees…The Minnesota Department of Human Services will cut 200 jobs from a mental illness care program… 110 workers have been temporarily laid off as Sierra Pacific Industries abridge operations at the Chinese Camp, CA cedar mill…NRG Energy will eliminate 70 jobs in Connecticut… 20 police officers are in danger of being laid off in Atlantic City… 18 special education teachers have been laid off from the D.C. School System… The Daily Press, subsidiary of the Tribune Co., will be instituting about 10 percent employee layoffs among the staff of 84…
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: Possible 5,000 in Kansas
A daily review of the employment fallout around the country and the world.
Today’s Total: 7,073
The Kansas school system is in danger of a possible 5,000 job cuts next year if school funding fails to suffice… Shaw’s grocery store chain is closing its Connecticut locations, laying off 967 workers in the process… Yonkers, N.Y., mayor has announced that next year’s budget may result in either 900 employee layoffs or a 35 percent tax increase… 150 Cadbury workers may be facing layoffs as Kraft restructures the confection maker… Comache County Memorial Hospital in Lawton, Okla. has terminated 56 jobs, including the chief operating officer… Online entertainment company, Slide, is ceasing production on two of its games, laying off up to 10 percent of its workforce in the process…
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: 520 in Phoenix
A daily review of the employment fallout around the country and the world.
Today’s Total: 1,233
A new budget for Phoenix, Ariz. has resulted in 520 job cuts… If South Carolina state legislature passes a $5.1 billion budget plan, the Department of Juvenile Justice could suffer 295 contract employee layoffs… 200 jobs will be terminated as New Jersey Transit faces an emergency spending freeze… Cummins Inc. is laying off 194 workers from the Columbus Midrange Engine Plant… Lockheed Martin Corp. has laid off 16 employees at its Orlando, Fla. Location… New York City controller John Liu has announced that 8 employees have “separated” from his office…
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…
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