Journalists
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.
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
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
Paper Cuts – covering layoffs and buyouts at U.S. newspapers.
Here is a clever website called Paper Cuts. Set up by Erica Smith, one can see a lot of work has gone into this website. Erica tracks job losses, layoffs, and buyouts in the Media or Newspaper industry. As you can see by her Google Map, a lot of jobs have been lost in this sector.
Other companies laying off people.
- Bloomers lays off 127 workers. Bloomers makes components for diesel engines.
- Barneys New York is eliminating 76 positions. From sales people to corporate executives, the cuts are wide-ranging. The retailer said the cuts were effective Monday.
- In Houston, that city’s only daily, the Chronicle has announced it has begun laying off about 12 percent of its work force. At present there is no exact number on how many will go.
- Hunton & Williams is on the verge of big layoffs, says Above the Law. It seems the firm has been quietly laying off partners in the last two months, recently froze associate salaries, and offered an early retirement program of unknown scope to staff.
- General Motors Corp. starts laying off white-collar workers as part of its restructuring plan, with 160 people losing jobs at its technical center in Warren, Mich.
- Los Angeles Times photographer Lori Shepler, photo editor Tracy Silveria and video journalist John Vande Wege have been laid off. The paper is owned by the Tribune company, which is in bankruptcy. You can find the letters from some of the above people telling the world they have been laid off.
- New York Gov. David Paterson has ordered that more than 4 percent or 8900 of state government workers be laid off. The total workforce is over 200000.
- Dell’s Limerick closure to cause 9500 job losses.
- The rate at which architects are joining the dole has accelerated to a year-on-year increase of 760%, it has emerged.
- The Newseum, the news museum in Washington DC was forced to make 13 job cuts last week as a result of funding cuts.
- Transport For London said 1000 posts will go at London Underground, including some lost after maintenance work was brought back in-house following the collapse of Metronet, and another several hundred at Transport for London.
- Removals company Pickfords could go through a pre-pack administration putting more than 1000 jobs at risk, despite only being rescued 12 months ago.
- A Newcastle law firm Watson Burton says it is looking at cutting about 75 staff.
- Kaleidoscope Travel Group has been forced to lay off 60 staff at Travelsphere and Page & Moy after weakening demand for escorted tours.
Total losses = 20898
Friday the 13th, unlucky for some!
The following companies shed jobs this week:
- The Automobile Association (AA) has confirmed that 25 jobs will go in its media division, based in Basingstoke.
- Independent News & Media plans to make 60 journalists redundant out of 90 job losses at the firm, and said it would impose compulsory redundancies if there weren’t enough volunteers . (You will volunteer else you are fired – Ha Ha!).
- 30 Jersey shop workers are expected to be made redundant following the collapse of two high-street chains. 19 workers will lose their jobs at Pound World when the Channel Island retailer closes its doors for the last time on Saturday, and 8 workers at fashion chain Principles could be facing redundancy after the retailer announced that it had become the latest victim of the Economic Downturn.
- STAFF were left reeling after National Lottery operator Camelot announced plans to axe 45 of its 75-strong workforce in Aintree.
- Penguins has made redundant 5 of its 17 staff as part of a restructure it says is designed to arm the agency against the recession.
- Manufacturing is to cease at NCR’s Dundee plant with the loss of 252 jobs.
- UK manufacturing group Senior unveils plans to make 500 staff redundant.
- Dell has laid off staff at different sites worldwide in an effort to cut costs and streamline operations. The company did not provide an exact number of job cuts. However a company spokesman said that jobs were cut globally, including sites in Texas and North Carolina.
