Job Losses = 19247

April 28: On top of 1850 layoffs announced in January, Clear Channel slashes 590 jobs, bringing cuts to 12% of its original workforce total.
April 27: Lockheed Martin dismisses 225 in New York; cites lost business for Presidential Helicopter Program.
April 27: PPG Industries lays off 110 at fiberglass plant in North Carolina.
April 27: CSX fires more than 150 at New York rail yard.
April 27: General Motors increases originally planned cuts to its U.S. hourly workforce by 8000.
April 24: Carrier Corporation a subsidiary of United Technologies cuts 140 hourly workers.
April 23: Embarq closes call center in North Carolina and dismisses 51 workers.
April 22: Philip Morris International closes North Carolina cigarette plant and fires 1100 workers.
April 22: T. Rowe Price Group reduces workforce by 5.5% (288 jobs), hitting all areas of the company except portfolio managers.
April 22: Capital One Financial cuts 60 employees in its credit card division.
April 20: Brown-Forman Corp. pink-slips 250 workers, or 6% of its global workforce.
April 21: Yahoo! reports 78% drop in first-quarter profit and 5% cut in global workforce (roughly 675 employees).
April 20: Nordstrom cuts 72 jobs in Iowa and Washington.
April 18: Weyerhaeuser closes trucking division in Oregon and cuts 75 jobs.
April 15: Emerson Electric subsidiary in Tennessee fires 200 workers at plant that makes industrial generators.
April 14: Discover Financial Services blames credit losses for 4% workforce reduction (500 jobs).
April 14: Deere & Co. combines two units resulting in 200 pink-slips.
April 13: General Electric fires 100 workers at plant in North Carolina on reduced demand for the plant’s products.
April 9: General Electric’s health care arm fires 179 in Wisconsin.
April 9: Johnson & Johnson cuts 900 jobs in its U.S. pharmaceuticals division as competition in drugs pushes prices down.
April 8: Eastman Chemical notifies 300 employees of layoff; 200 of the cuts are in Tennessee, where the company is based.
April 8: Navistar International pink-slips 350 workers at plant in Ontario.
April 8: Deere & Co. fires 160 workers in Iowa factory in latest of ongoing cuts.
April 6: Weakness in solar power forces General Electric to layoff 85 at solar-panel plant in Delaware.
April 6: Procter & Gamble dismisses 90 workers at Puerto Rico plant that makes skin care products and cold medicine.
April 3: FedEx fires 1000 following a 75% drop in third-quarter earnings announced last month.
April 3: Walt Disney Co. cuts 1900 jobs 1200 people and 700 empty positions at its U.S. theme parks.
April 2: Rite Aid closes a distribution center in Georgia and lays off 297 workers.
April 1: 3M slashes global workforce by 1.5% (1200 jobs) following a December cut of 2300 workers.

Quoted from Bloomberg

Not a great Friday after news  that roughly 21000 jobs would be lost for at least 20 companies.

• Hertz, the second-largest U.S. rental-car company, said it will cut more than 4000 jobs.
• WellPoint, the second-largest U.S. health insurer, will end 1500 jobs, which include 600 workers and 900 open positions.
• Clear Channel Communications Inc. will lay off 1500 employees on Jan. 20, mostly in ad sales.
• ConocoPhillips, the second-largest U.S. refiner, announced after the markets closed that it plans to cut 4 percent of its workforce, or about 1350 jobs.
• Advanced Micro, the second-largest producer of personal- computer processors, said it will eliminate 1100 jobs by the end of the first quarter.
• Amonil said it will cut 45 percent of its staff, or 389 jobs, this year.
• Magneti Marelli will eliminate 800 jobs in Brazil, or 10 percent of its workforce there.
• General Electric Co.‘s finance arm may cut 7500 to 11000 jobs, or at least 10 percent of its workforce.
• De Beers, the world’s biggest diamond company, said it will cut jobs at its six mines in South Africa, totaling “less than” 1000 people.
• Interwoven Inc., the provider of data-management software, announced after trading hours that it would cut 70 jobs.
• Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan will cut up to 1000 jobs in 2009.
• Renold Plc, the maker of the chains that drive the clock in London’s Big Ben, announced 350 job reductions.
• WS Atkins Plc, the U.K.’s biggest engineering-design company, plans to eliminate 210 jobs at its Middle East operations.
• Scania AB, Sweden’s second-largest maker of heavy trucks, said it won’t renew contracts for 2000 temporary employees to adjust production because of weaker demand.
• Haynes International Inc., the manufacturer of alloys for use in aerospace and chemical processing, said it will eliminate 12 percent of its global workforce.
• Varian Inc., manufacturer of scientific instruments and vacuum technologies, will shed 240 jobs.
• Banco Santander SA, Spain’s biggest bank, eliminated 400 jobs in Brazil after buying ABN Amro Holding NV’s Banco Real unit in the country.
• Harry & David Holdings, a fruit and food retailer, said it would cut more than 100 positions.

Job losses: +-21000

Original article By Oshrat Carmiel, ocarmiel1@bloomberg.net