4655 jobs gone in 24 hours.
Washington State University layoffs 360 full-time jobs and three academic programs to reduce its budget by $54 million, or more than 10%, over the next two years.
Irish low-cost Ryanair cuts 650 jobs in Ireland, blaming the move on government hikes in taxes amid a deep recession in the eurozone member nation.
Penske Logistics to cut 100 jobs.
Delphi closes Vandalia plant, cuts 116 jobs.
Norske Skog plans to cut 600 jobs.
Bank of America layoffs 81 in Tampa.
University Hospitals in Iowa will layoff 130 employees.
Dean Foods closes PET Dairy operations, cuts 120 jobs.
Lockheed Martin cuts 750 jobs.
Jostens layoffs 185 employees.
Michelin to cut 2800 jobs in France through early retirement and voluntary redundancies in the next three years, sparking concern from the government.
Evonik Cyro layoffs 35 workers.
The slowdown in spending is still finding new victims – most recently MySpace. The social networking giant currently owned by media conglomerate News Corp. will be losing around 30% of its US workforce over the next few weeks, which aquates to about 400 employees.
Total losses in the past 24 hours = 4655
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