1 week 55 companies lay off 20000+ people.
Girtz Industries to layoff 60 in Indiana.
Boston Redevelopment Authority to cut 30 job.
Watson Pharmaceuticals cuts 275 jobs.
Vacumet Corp layoffs 39 employees.
Volunteer Fabricators cuts 145 jobs.
Lockheed Martin to cut 535 jobs in San Jose.
CUNA Mutual Group cuts 52 jobs.
Guardian Life Insurance layoffs 39.
Premier Elkhorn Coal Company cuts 100 jobs.
United Methodists eliminates 50 minutes.
Transcontinental layoffs 250 workers.
General Motors cuts 38 Missouri dealers, 66 Illinois, 887 workers in Wentzville.
Symmetricom layoffs 30.
Frontier Financial Corp cuts 45 jobs.
Cessna to cut 1300 more jobs.
American Airlines cuts 1600 jobs.
UTStarcom cuts 2300 jobs worldwide.
Carlson Craft layoffs 114.
Shaw Group to cut 168 jobs by August.
Zimmer Holdings layoffs 100 in Warsaw.
H&H Foodservice Inc cuts 90 jobs.
Reynolds Packaging layoffs 158 employees.
Indevus Pharmaceuticals cuts 60 jobs.
Heifer International plans to layoff 20% of workforce.
Design Craftsmen layoffs entire workforce.
Cadence Design Systems cuts 225 jobs.
Meridian Automotive Systems cuts 200 jobs in India.
Ixia layoffs 10% of workforce.
Metalcraft closes Mayville facility, 121 jobs lost.
Quantum Engineering layoffs 88.
Crystal Dynamics cuts 25 jobs.
Keystone Findings closes Telford operations, 46 jobs.
Bass Berry & Sims layoffs 32 employees.
Ford Motors layoffs 350 workers at Louisville Plan.
Baxter Healthcare layoffs 65.
Advanced Steel layoffs 91 employees.
MeadWestvaco cuts 65 jobs in Wisconsin.
Lloyds Bank cuts 1660 jobs.
Ericsson layoffs 167 workers.
Capital Group layoffs 94 in San Antonio.
McAvoy Group layoffs 35, as the companies struggles with a slump in orders.
LM Glasfiber layoffs 80 workers.
Orgill Inc cuts 176 jobs.
Electrolux cuts 150 jobs.
Dassault Falcon layoffs 111 employees.
Suzlon might layoff 90 employees.
Lehigh Phoenix layoffs 54 employees. Lehigh Phoenix is the principal provider of cover components, overhead transparencies and juvenile book production for the publishing industry in the United States.
Intuit cuts 4% of workforce.
Georgia Gulf Corp cuts 100 jobs.
Newport Television cuts around 120 jobs.
Columbia Falls Aluminum closes plant, 90 jobs lost.
Nortech Systems layoffs 57 in Iowa. Nortech makes electronics equipment such as printed circuit-board assemblies, for three primary markets: aerospace/defense, medical and industrial.
One Communications Corp layoffs 60 in Rochester.
American Express to cut 4000 jobs this year. The credit card and travel services company, plans to eliminate 4000 jobs, or 6 percent of its workforce, as the weakened economy causes higher customer defaults.
Total losses = +- 20000
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