Media
Activision no longer heros as 500 jobs cut.
Source: MCVUK News
Washington Post closes last three offices.
In a cost cutting move, the Washington Post is closing its remaining three US news bureaus outside of the Washington, D.C. area and will cover national news from its base in Washington. The six reporters who work in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago will be offered a relocation to Washington, while three news assistants will lose their jobs.
The Washington Post, which has a daily circulation of 673,180 and 890,163 on Sunday, has axed more than 200 jobs through buyout offers earlier this year and after several rounds of earlier buyouts. The Washington Post had already closed the Austin, Denver and Miami national bureaus in recent years and as like nearly every other newspaper in the US, has been battered by falling advertising revenue and circulation as readers get more news online for free.
London Lite blames ED for closure.
The London Lite is set to close with the loss of 36 jobs, despite them making a profit in the weeks after the London Paper ceased distribution after Rupert Murdoch shut it down.
Total losses = 36
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Blackburn Microtech Solutions goes into administration.
A company that once employed over 7500 people has closed down after it went into administration. 115 workers will lose their jobs after Blackburn Microtech Solutions, formerly part of the LG Philips group, shutdown.
Blackburn Microtech Solutions manufacture television components, audio amplification valves, 3D X-ray scanning technology for airport scanners and energy efficient light bulbs.
Total job loss = 115
Is it me or are there less job losses?
For those who visit regularly you may have noticed that we are not updating or creating posts everyday. This is mainly because there do not seem to be as many companies laying off people such as they were 6 months ago.
Source: Layoff Tracker
Whyte & Mackay cuts 85 jobs
State of Pennsylvania layoffs 250 employees
Engineering firm CHA layoffs 57 employees cuts salary
German utility company E.ON plans to cut 2000 jobs
Artex Aircraft Supply layoffs 113 workers
RM International layoffs 109 workers
Crow Tribe layoffs 200 employees
Ulster Bank cuts 250 jobs
Ballard Power cuts 85 jobs
Terex Corporation cuts 170 jobs
Trinity Marine Products layoffs 235 employees
Korea’s Ssangyong Motor finalizes 2600 layoffs
VSP cuts 43 jobs
Miami Herald Media Company cuts 34 jobs
Total losses = 6231
Television documentary participation.
Right, my subject is not BS, so pay attention. I got an email from Paula Wright over at Positive Productions.
Paul is currently looking for participants to be involved with a documentary pilot that is offering New York citizens one month of free life coaching to boost positivity and improve their lives. They have 4 individuals taking part in the pilot and they are keen to find someone who is currently seeking employment to be their 5th participant.
Participation would involve attending 3 sessions with one of America’s top life coaches and sharing your thoughts with them on camera. This will not be broadcast and there is no obligation to take part in the full length show to be filmed later this year.
If you think you would benefit from being involved in this project or who be interested in finding out more about this documentary, then please contact Paula Wright to discuss this further.
Paula can be contacted via email on positiveproductions.paula@gmail.com or by the good old fashioned telephone on +1 347 465 0357
TELETEXT: An end of an era.
Source: Times Online (Dan Sabbagh and Patrick Foster)
At a time when the internet was nothing but a distant dream and pressing the red button just turned the television off, Teletext was the king of instant information. But yesterday, 35 years after the service first flickered into life, it was announced that the news and information provider, one of the last technological bastions of the pre-internet age, will be closed prematurely.
Associated Newspapers, the publisher of the Daily Mail and a division of Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), had planned to close Teletext to coincide with the switchover to digital television in 2012. But the company said that the growth of the internet, as well as recent poor financial performance, had pulled the service into the red. Associated said that it would close Teletext two years ahead of schedule, in January, citing the poor economic climate and dismissal by Ofcom, the communications regulator, of the prospect of future state support for the venture.
Originally known as Oracle, the service was first transmitted on ITV in 1974, with the BBC launching its own Ceefax in the same year. In 1993 Oracle closed and the franchise was awarded to Teletext Ltd. News, music reviews and puzzles were some of the most popular offerings, leading to the business posting profits of £30 million, on revenues of £80 million, in its 1990s heyday.
The company started talks with its 70 staff at its West London headquarters yesterday. The brand will live on through its profitable travel websites as well as the broadcast of Teletext Holidays on the Freeview platform.
The BBC, whose Ceefax attracts a weekly average of 5.5 million users, said that it will continue to provide analogue Ceefax until the digital switchover is completed.
Companies in Administration. (CiA)
- Vanmaker LDV has been placed into administration with 850 jobs possibly being lost. Attempts to sell Birmingham-based LDV as a going concern have failed.
- CragRats theatre and training company goes into adminstration. More than 70 people are believed to have lost their jobs after an award-winning theatre and training company hit financial trouble.
- Sufolk Marine survey company goes bust with a major operation in Lowestoft has gone into administration resulting in 27 local redundancies – and the propsect of more to come.
- Venture Packaging Innovations goes into administration. The company supplies packaging for cosmetics, healthcare, lifestyle and entertainment industries and has been going for 20 years. It specializes in multi-colour printed cartons, bespoke packaging in card, specialist packaging or ‘unusual folding items’. The reasons for the company’s decline into administration are still unknown.
- The Portland Spa Hotel and Conference Centre has been seriously hit by the recession and has called in the administrators.
- Harvey World Travel has gone into administration and sold almost half its branches to newly-created company Vacation World.
- The Staincliffe Hotel in Seaton Carew, near Hartlepool, is looking for a new owner after chef Mark Jones was forced to place the business into administration.
- Deloitte has been lined up to potentially provide administrators to satellite sports business Setanta. The broadcaster is believed to be struggling to pay off it bills for the rights to Premiership games and for the Scottish Premier League.
- Rock board places the company in administration as the slump in the property market claims another high-profile victim. Rock, the property company founded by Paul Kemsley is one of Sir Alan Sugar’s closest advisers.
- Challenge Finance collapses after suspected client fraud.
- Paterson Printing in administration with 40 staff axed.
Layoff Tracker – Thursday Crunch Victims.
It’s been a busy old day in the world of job loss.
- Hunton & Williams has announced that 23 associates and counsel and 64 staff members have been laid off. The cuts, announced in a firmwide e-mail distributed Thursday morning, are spread across practice areas and offices. They affect two percent of the Richmond-based firm’s 1000 lawyers and six percent of its staff. Today’s cuts are Hunton’s first round of layoffs since the start of the downturn.
- Faced with huge losses, rising debts, India’s second largest air carrier by market share, Jet Airways has axed its 120 foreign airhostesses from its 3000 cabin crew in a bid to save on costs. This new round of axing cabin crew, comes close on the heels of Jet Airways terminating contracts of about 60 cabin crew, who were on probation, and another 50 employees who have superannuated, early this month as the airline moved to cut cost and stay trim. See Related Link: India’s domestic airlines to cut 2500 jobs.
- In yet another sign of the troubled economic times, a well-known intellectual property boutique Fish & Richardson is laying off 35 lawyers and 85 support staff.
- MeadWestvaco Corp. is closing its beverage packaging plant in Wilmington, putting 105 people out of work, the Virginia-based company announced.
- Polish media group Agora AGOD.WA is increasing staff cuts to 400 after falling circulation and dwindling advertising revenues.
- German auto parts manufaturer Schaeffler Group KG announced that it could axe up to 4500 jobs in Germany as part of restructuing efforts to save 250 million euros (US$340 million) as the global economic crisis cuts deeply into auto sales.
- Toledo-based Dana Holding Corp. has laid off 115 of the 280 employees working at its Fort Wayne axle plant, were in response to Chrysler LLP’s shutdown of plants that make Jeep Cherokees and Wranglers.
- ArcelorMittal officials have announced plans to layoff nearly 1000 workers at the steelmaker’s Indiana Harbor plant. The sagging economy, particularly the deep slump in auto manufacturing, has caused steep declines in demand for steel — less than a year after domestic steelmakers had recorded some of their highest revenues in history.
- After earlier layoff announcements concerning attorneys in its United States, Asia and Dubai offices, DLA Piper is now officially wielding the ax in the United Kingdom with 24 “fee-earners” and 100 support staff going.
- Freescale Semiconductor, Texas-based computer chipmaker, has decided to retrench around 250 professionals at its Bangalore centre, as the company seeks to lower its operational costs by shutting down several manufacturing units across the globe and trim its payroll.
- Seagate Technology said that it plans to cut about 1100 jobs from its workforce in a move the computer storage maker expects will reduce costs by about $125 million a year.
Total losses = 8131
Source: Layoff Tracker
30 editorial staffers laid off at San Francisco Chronicle.
The newspaper expects to lay off 30 staffers. The San Francisco Chronicle is Northern California’s largest newspaper, serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area, but distributed throughout Northern and Central California, from the Sacramento area and Emerald Triangle south to San Luis Obispo County.
Total losses = 30
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192 San Diego Union-Tribune staff given the boot.
The San Diego Union-Tribune announced it would be cutting 192 positions company-wide. The move comes three days after Platinum Equity, a Beverly Hills private equity firm, completed its acquisition of the paper from its longtime owner, the Copley Press Inc.
Total losses = 192
May day Monday!
It might be a May day holiday in the UK today, but it seems the job loss announcements have not abated.
- London-based advertising company WPP Group Plc will cut a total of 7200 jobs this year, hurt by cuts in client companies’ advertising spending amid the recession. Of the total planned job reductions, about half has already been lost, with the rest expected to go by the end of 2009.
- Software group Sage will announce 1000 job cuts.
- Plumbing giant Wolseley is axing more than 250 jobs at two sites in Lancashire and Oxfordshire. The bulk of the losses will be made at its distribution centre in Chorley with 133 jobs going when the lease on the building expires this August and it is also closing a distribution centre in Didcot with the loss of 76 jobs.
- XFM and Gold radio stations will be losing at least 20 jobs. Redundancies are expected online, in marketing and design departments too.
- Global defence giant BAE Systems announced the loss of 500 jobs and the closure of three sites, partly because of the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq. 50 jobs will go at its Newcastle plant on Scotswood Road, while sites at Telford in Shropshire, Leeds and Guildford in Surrey will close by June next year, with some compulsory redundancies expected.
- Five Pizza Hut restaurants are to close with the loss of around 130 jobs after the company which holds the Northern Ireland franchise went into administration.
- Vestas Wind Systems will slash it’s workforce by 1900. The company that makes wind turbines will make the redundancies mostly in Denmark and the UK, include 450 at it’s factory on the Isle Of Wight.
A miserable Monday for job losses and crunch victims.
USCV: Another big day in the United States for job losses.
- Fort Wayne Community Schools will lay off more than 100 teachers at its school board meeting Monday night.
- CSX are laying off at least 200 employees or 25% of the workforce in Buffalo. Half of the 800 rail cars that go through Frontier Yard every day will now be re-routed to Ohio, Albany, and Syracuse. Fewer cars to work will mean fewer employees are needed.
- At least 561 Downey Savings & Loan workers in Newport Beach will be laid off over the next five months.
- Monahan Filaments is to lay off 54 workers because orders are down more than 50 percent from last year.
- PPG Industries is laying off 110 people at its fiberglass plant in Lexington. The company cited “unfavorable conditions in the global economy” as a reason for the layoffs.
General Motors Corp. could be majority owned by the federal government under a massive restructuring plan laid out Monday that will cut 21000 U.S. factory jobs by next year and phase out the storied Pontiac brand.
For Pontiac, the decision means the death of a brand known for its muscle cars including the Trans Am made famous in movies and the GTO, the subject of a nostalgic song by Ronny and the Daytonas.
- Conde Nast Publications Inc. is shuttering the business magazine Portfolio and its Web site, Portfolio.com, and laying off more than 80 people.
- The U.S. Treasury Office of Thrift Supervision will close and 110 employees will be laid off.
- Clearwater Paper is laying off about 50 paperboard employees.
- Hanesbrands Inc. will lay off 500 employees in corporate management and distribution operations to reduce costs.
- Faced with declining revenues and a recession, Riverside County proposed 1000 jobs cuts or roughly 5% of the county workforce — including hundreds of public safety jobs.
- Lucia Mar makes more than 50 job cuts.
- Outdoors outfitter L.L. Bean has notified employees that it plans to lay off 200 to 240 members of its Maine-based work force because of lagging sales.
- The Chicago Tribune is cutting 53 jobs as part of a newsroom reorganization designed to help the newspaper weather the Economic Downturn.
Total losses = 22265
53 jobs are cut from Chicago Tribune newsroom.
Amid continuing advertising declines, 53 jobs had to be cut from the Chicago Tribune newsroom today.
Total losses = 53
More Monday blues for hundreds of credit crunch victims.
- Park Nicollet Health Services annouced today they were laying off 233 workers and would not be filling another 69 open positions. The reductions which take effect from Friday, represent 1.8 percent of St. Louis Park-based Park Nicollet’s work force. A decline in services has seen investment suffer, although most believe the recession is to blame.
- Georgia-Pacific say they will lay off 39 hourly employees by mid-May.
- General Motors Corp. started firing 1600 white-collar workers Monday in order to qualify for more government loans (doesn’t make sense now does it?). GM has said it will eliminate 47000 jobs worldwide by the end of 2009, but the cuts may go even deeper as the company moves toward its deadline.
- Renewable Environmental Solutions, last month filed for Chapter 11 in bankruptcy court in New York and today laid off about 50 employees at the plant. Read the story.#
- Legg Mason laid off 40 admin and support workers, including 5 at its Baltimore HQ.
- Herbert Smith is to cut up to 84 members of staff from it London office and is also reversing all associate pay bands.
- The DSM chemical plant is cutting 80 people to cut costs, effective at the end of June.
- The Quincy school district announced its second and final round of cuts. 15 employees were honorably dismissed who worked as educational support personal. That includes library staff, computer staff and paraprofessional personal.
- Tele Atlas, a New Hampshire-based company that makes digital maps is laying off 120 employees at its Lebanon headquarters and 140 jobs in North America.
- It has been reported in The Herald Journal that 27 lecturers and research lab workers who have lost their jobs at USU in the latest round of cuts.
- Sun-Times Media Group Inc. has cut about 140 jobs companywide as it tries to trim costs during its bankruptcy reorganization. The cuts, which affected both managers and non-managers, amounted to about 10% of the company’s non-union staff.
- Robert Bosch Corp. announced Monday that 225 workers from its North Charleston plant would be laid off.
Total losses = 2798
