86 employees will have their jobs phased out over the next 6 months at Dresser, Inc. in Tioga, Louisiana. The Tioga location is a valve facility employing more than 400 in the local area. Dresser has decided to outsource its manufacturing division and focus on assembly and shipping instead. A few employees will be placed [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 11, 2010
We reported late last month that Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman announced likely job cuts across all city departments this year. After a four hour hearing yesterday the Las Vegas City Council tentatively approved next year’s budget and 146 city employees will lose their jobs by June as the Council tries to make up for [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 11, 2010
Yesterday 140 elementary school district layoffs were approved by Redwood City officials in California. These cuts were made to close the $13 million gap in the district’s budget. Lay offs were approved for 127 full time equivalent teachers, 11 temporary teachers, and 9 other administrative staff. The layoffs are not yet final and California law [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Pfizer has cut 72 jobs at its Pearl River, New York facility. Workers in Pfizer’s chemical Division at Pearl River will be laid off by May 21. Pfizer has already laid off 483 of 3,000 workers since October 15. Pfizer may lay off more employees in coming months depending on whether they close the manufacturing [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 22, 2010
In Houston, Texas Innovative Consultants LLC cut 287 jobs this month after losing a substantial contract. Most of the lay offs affected hourly employees. The company hopes to have the lost contract reinstated or replace it with other work. Innovative Consultants is a Newark, Delaware based company. It provides contact center services for multiple industries through [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 19, 2010
Today Boeing issued 60-day lay off notices to 1,020 workers nationwide. The bulk of the lay offs will be in the states of Washington and California. Boeing also laid off workers in the St. Louis, Missouri area. Most of the impacted employees in Washington and California work in information technology as part of Boeing’s Engineering, [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 19, 2010
Anheuser-Busch InBev’s Nevada division cut 90 jobs in its sales department yesterday. Those who lost their jobs included several vice presidents. The company plans to lay off another 350 employees in the coming months. Anheuser is going through what they call “restructuring”. The company hopes to save $90 million annually through job reductions linked to [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Regional airline carrier Trans States Airlines announced this week that they will lay off 150 employees. The new lay offs are connected to American Airlines’ plan to reduce the number of flights out of the Lambert-St. Louis International Airport to 36 in April. Trans States flies regional routes for American. The airline will lay off [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Diebold Inc. is cutting 250 jobs at its Green, Ohio corporate campus. Diebold has 1,900 employees at the headquarters and nearby facilities. The company has 16,000 employees worldwide. According to CEO Thomas Swidarski, the job cuts were made to reduce costs and are not “short term reductions”. In total 350 jobs, or 4% of Diebold’s [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 29, 2010
Central Maine Power, a subsidiary of Iberdrola USA, announced it will cut 40 nonunion jobs. This is part of a larger company wide lay off expected to eliminate 140 jobs in the Northeast. Employees were released on Friday “in an effort to better align the company’s operations with current business needs” according to spokesman Clayton [...]
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