Screwed: Possible 13,000 at Saturn

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Today’s Total: 15,184

GM’s plan to cease production of Saturn cars could lead to close to 13,000 job losses as dealers close around the country…Pratt & Whitney Canada will lay off 410 members of their workforce due to declining corporate jet sales…Arizona’s Department of Public Safety will lay off 400 employees due to budget cuts…Manganese Bronze Holdings is set to cut 400 workers from its plant in Coventry, England…Chrysler Financial announced plans to cut 360 employees from its headquarters in Detroit and other satellite offices…Windstream Corp. will lay off 350 employees nationwide…Midwest Airlines will cut 170 jobs by November…Force Protection Inc. handed out 120 layoff notices, impacting 10% of its workforce…Beckman Coulter will lay off 84 employees from offices in Fullerton and Brea, Calif…James E. Brown & Associates, a small law firm in Washington, D.C. was forced to lay off 10 employees after a payroll worker embezzled $1.2 million…The Blue Jays have cut an undisclosed number of business-side workers….

Screwed: 341 in West Corporation

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Today’s Total: 405

The West Corporation, a telecommunications company in Harlingen, Texas, is laying off 341 workers… First Industrial Realty Trust Inc is laying off 46 employees and closing four offices… Sierra Conservation Center expects 18 employee layoffs… Funcom is laying off 20 percent of its workforce with the heaviest cuts occurring in their Norwegian home offices… Princeton University staff is facing imminent layoffs after the school’s endownment declined by 23 percent.

Screwed: 17,000 in Puerto Rico

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Today’s Total: 17,999

Puerto Rico is set to eliminate 17,000 positions over the next few months as a part of a fiscal stabilization plan…Square Enix will cut up to 300 jobs from its Japanese workforce…Hawker Beechcraft handed out 240 layoff notices to employees in another effort to cut costs…Harman International is laying off 216 employees from its factory in Brigend, Wales…Diebold will cut 100 workers from its facility in Lexington, N.C…Dassault Falcon will cut 72 workers from its plant in Little Rock, Ark…The town of Islip, N.Y is expected to approve the layoffs of 71 employees to help offset a budget deficit…

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: 27,600 at Autovaz

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Today’s Total: 33,067

Russian carmaker Autovaz is eliminating a whopping 27,600 jobs….AT&T has plans to lay off 2,500 workers nationwide…The mayor of Detroit announced the possibility of 1,000 more layoffs of city workers by Saturday…the city of Dallas has notified 800 workers of impending layoffs due to budget cuts…Genie Industries has handed out 400 layoff notices to its offices in Washington…

Screwed: 300 in Vermont

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Today’s Total: 599

Some Good News: CEO Carol Bartz reports that there will be no more layoffs at Yahoo!, and GM will bring back 2,400 workers.

Up to 300 state workers may be laid off in Vermont… ConAgrawill let go 300 in North Carolina…Swiss bank UBS AG has laid off 200 U.S. employees from its wealth management department… The Salinas City Counsel is considering a budget cut involving 61 layoffs… In another round of layoffs, 25 workers are cut in Manitowoc County…

Screwed: 400 at Nexans SA

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Today’s Total: 1,902

Nexans SA will lay off 400 employees in France…Johnson Controls laid off 343 workers from a plant in Spring Hill, Tenn…Sacramento County is preparing to eliminate 342 workers, primarily in health and human services, as a response to a budget deficit…Penske Logistics LLC handed out 300 layoff notices, also in Spring Hill, Tenn…201 workers in the city of Akron, Ohio, will be laid off on October 1^st if negotiations are not successful…Up to 125 workers in Prince George’s County, Md, will be laid off due to state budget cuts…Harley Davidson will cut 71 more employees in York County, Pa…

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: 52,000 in Michigan

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Today’s Total: 53,563

The state of Michigan anticipates the layoffs of 52,000 employees by October 1… French aerospace company Latecoere will lay off 1,000 employees by the end of the year… ConAgra will lay off 300 workers from its plant in Garner, N.C. after a June 9 explosion… Mercedez-Benz will reduce its workforce at a plant in Alabama by 200 by the end of the year… Mother’s Cookies has laid off 77 workers from its bakery in Louisville, Ky… Play Systems laid off 60 workers this week from two factories in South Dakota…

Screwed: 5,500 at Eli Lilly

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Today’s Total: 9,589

Eli Lilly plans to lay off 5,500 employees by 2011 in anticipation of patent expirations… 3,722 New York State workers will lose their jobs over the next two years according to Governor Paterson’s Division of Budget… GE will lay off 164 workers from its factory in Bloomington, Ind… Chart Industries will lay off 90 workers at its plant in La Crosse, Wisc… The city of Islip, N.Y. anticipates laying off 70 employees by the end of the week… Timber Products Company laid off 23 workers from its plant in Corinth, Miss… The city of East St. Louis has announced plans to cut 18 city workers, 13 of them firefighters, in order to offset a budget deficit… 2 administrators were cut from the staff of Radford University in Roanoke, Va., kicking off what is expected to be a wave of layoffs after a large budget cut… Halliburton anticipates further layoffs at its facility in Carrollton, Tex., although the company has not announced how many people will be impacted…