The Klaus Kneale Pink-Slip List (P-SL) for March 2009.
The following Pink-Slip List (P-SL) was compiled by Klaus Kneale.
Job Losses = 37429
Mar. 31: Cardinal Health pink-slips 800 workers as part of cost cutting efforts.
Mar. 31: Deere & Co. places 40 Illinois employees on indefinite layoff.
Mar. 30: KLA-Tencor lays off 10% of its workforce which comes to roughly 500 employees.
March 27: Wal-Mart Stores closes Ohio facility and lays off 650 workers.
March 26: Agilent Technologies freezes share-buyback program and cuts 2700 jobs.
March 26: Google institutes second round of layoffs by pink-slipping 200 workers.
March 25: Shaw Industries–a Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary–closes two plants, idling 600 workers.
March 25: Constellation Brands reduces workforce by 5% (400 workers) following decline in wine sales.
March 25: IBM slashes workforce in U.S. by more than 4%, or roughly 5000 workers.
March 24: Legg Mason lays off 120 to adjust to its current business needs.
March 24: Synovus Financial dismisses 200 employees following a 650-worker layoff in September.
March 24: Cummins fires 127 workers when voluntary layoff fails to entice enough to leave.
March 22: Freeport-McMoRan pink-slips 50 employees at Denver mine.
March 19: Lam Research pink-slips 375 or 10% of the company’s workforce.
March 17: Caterpillar adds another 2454 layoffs to a growing total, as construction equipment demand continues to be weak.
March 17: A Corning subsidiary cuts 200 jobs at North Carolina plant.
March 17: Weyerhaeuser continues ongoing layoffs and production cuts by closing two lumber mills and firing 307 workers.
March 16: TRW Automotive Holdings continues ongoing cuts with 42 salaried employees in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
March 13: Baker Hughes pink-slips 1500 (about 4% of workforce)–this follows a layoff of the same number back in January.
March 13: PPG Industries lowers first-quarter expectations and lays off 2500.
March 13: Sunoco fires 750 salaried workers–about a fifth of its workforce.
March 12: Weyerhaeuser cuts 59 workers at a mill in Oregon.
March 11: AMR dismisses 323 flight attendants in response to travel slump.
March 10: Lowe’s closes lighting and ceiling fan distribution center; fires 82.
March 10: Principal Financial Group cuts 60 jobs in its health arm (20 at headquarters).
March 10: United Technologies reduces workforce by 5% (11600 jobs globally).
March 6: Deere & Co. fires 325 employees at plants in Iowa on weak construction equipment demand.
March 4: Northrop Grumman targets administrative positions in California with 750-worker layoff.
March 4: Heil–a subsidiary of Dover that makes waste and recycling trucks–cuts 180 jobs.
March 4: General Dynamics pink-slips 1200 as turbulence in the aerospace sector continues.
March 3: U.S. Steel closes two plants in Ontario, affecting 1500 jobs and sparking frustration in Canadians over “U.S. protectionism.”
March 3: FirstEnergy reduces non-union staff by 4% (335 workers) to reduce costs.
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