The St. Paul Pioneer Press newspaper in St. Paul, Minnesota, is laying off an undisclosed number of its newsroom employees.
The layoffs were brought to the attention of the press by the Minnesota Newspaper Guild Typographical Union, which represents newsroom workers.
The Pioneer Press is owned by Denver, Colorado’s MediaNews Group, which operates 54 daily newspapers in [...]
3. July 2009
CenturyTel has merged with Embarq, and an undisclosed number of jobs will be eliminated before the end of 2009.
The new firm is called CenturyLink, and employs 20,000 employees in 33 states. It will be headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana. CenturyTel purchased Embarq for $11.6 billion.
Fewer than 30 jobs will be cut in July, but further, larger [...]
3. July 2009
The Cincinnati Enquirer, that city’s only daily newspaper, has informed its employees that 100 people will be laid off next week.
The paper’s parent company, Gannett, is in the midst of eliminating 1,400 jobs.
Founded in 1840, The Cincinnati Enquirer is the highest-circulation print publication in Greater Cincinnati, Ohio and Northern Kentucky. Its circulation is 206,320 daily [...]
3. July 2009
Oakland, California-based Internet company Evite has laid off nine of its 38 employees.
Two executives were laid off: general manager Rosanna McCollough and marketing veep Lariayn Payne.
No further details have been released, concerning the other seven employees affected.
Launched in 1998, Evite is a social-planning website for creating, sending, and managing online invitations. The website is a [...]
3. July 2009
Meridian Automotive Systems is shutting down its Shelbyville, Indiana factory, and putting 295 people on the street.
The firm had previously announced layoffs of 200 this Summer. Meridian recently lost a major client.
Allen Park, Michigan’s Meridian Automotive Systems makes various parts for several auto companies, including General Motors.
3. July 2009
Washington state’s Rainier School, a residential facility for developmentally disabled adults, is laying off an undisclosed number of employees. Press reports say the number is greater than 40.
The layoffs are the result of budget cuts at the Department of Social and Health Services.
Founded in 1939, the Rainier School is a residential facility for 440 adults [...]
3. July 2009
Meadville, Pennsylvania’s Channellock is looking for 25 of its workers to accept voluntary three-month furloughs, in an effort to avoid involuntary layoffs. The firm, which employs over 400 people, has been working four-day weeks. They hope that business will pick up in the three-month period. Tracing its history to 1886, Channellock manufactures locking pliers and hand tools [...]
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Idaho Timber of Montana is shutting its manufacturing plant in Whitefish, and laying off 26 workers. Sixteen workers were laid off this week — the other ten will be cut loose over the next three months. One week’s severance pay will be offered. The Idaho Timber plant opened in 1979, and produced wood boards for Lowe’s and [...]
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Atlanta’s Cox Communications held a job fair in Rancho Santa Margarita, California this week, with 750 applicants applying for 60 positions. The jobs pay up to $50,000 a year. Cox Communications is a privately-owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises, providing digital cable television and telecommunications services in the United States. It is the third-largest cable TV provider in [...]
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Nevada’s Washoe County will lay off 300 workers and eliminate 200 vacant positions. The cuts will save $100 million. This week, 32 people were let go; another 30 were laid off in June. Washoe County is a county in northwest Nevada. Census Bureau estimates listed a population of 396,428 in 2006. The county seat is Reno. It [...]
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The University of Pennsylvania, which in May laid off 18 researchers, is hiring back 11 at the university’s Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology. Five other researchers will be non-salaried consulting scholars, who may be paid for projects or as adjunct faculty. The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology was founded in 1887. During the early [...]
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Teleperformance USA will cut half its employees at its Akron, Ohio call center, laying off 250 people. The firings will start at the end of August, and target managers. Teleperformance says a client, an unnamed major cable company, decided to reduce operations. When the firm came to Akron in 2006, it said it would create over [...]
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Baldor Electric will expand its Weaverville, North Carolina plant, creating 32 jobs. The firm has been offered $64,000 in One North Carolina Fund incentives, and will invest $4.8 million itself into the expansion. The jobs will pay an average of $42,000 per year. Fort Smith, Arkansas-based Baldor Electric Company markets, designs, and manufactures industrial electric motors, mechanical [...]
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The US Labor Department reports that America’s unemployment rate hit 9.5% in June, the worst rate in 26 years. The nation lost 467,000 jobs, well over analysts’ estimates of 350,000 for the month. Fourteen million, seven hundred thousand people are looking for jobs, twice as many as in December 2007. The report does not count millions [...]
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