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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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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
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
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
Companies laying off employees week ending 27/03/2009.
It’s been another turbulent week around the world with many companies laying off people. Nothing like bad news to start off a fine weekend. 
Had a chuckle when I saw this poster recently. Apparently it was posted on a pole outside of Holburn Station. Sir Fred is really getting the rough end of the stick (and rightly so, the big crook).
- Google let go 200 of their workers in a surprise “Second Round Of Layoffs”.
- Nelson Pine Industries confirmed they were making 57 workers redundant. Based in New Zealand, NPI manufacturers laminated veneer lumber and medium density fiber board. They blamed new technology on the lay offs.
- The New York Times are laying off 100 people.
- Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG who produce printing presses will be laying off 2500 workers in Germany this year it was announced on Thursday.
- The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) are to make 800 staff redundant.
- Bank of America cut 150 employees from its Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management.
- Old Second National Bank laid off 62 employees.
- Insurance firm Legal and General is set to make 650 redundancies
- Churchill Financial cut one-third of its employees.
- Freeport Financial laid off (19 unconfirmed) most of its 23 employees.
- Madison Capital laid off 7 employees.
- Dymas Capital laid off 10 employees.
- Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge are laying off 60 employees.
Total losses = 4615
Here is a list by the New York Times. They are tracking job losses in the New York and surrounding areas.
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
The Charlotte Observer to cut 82 staff positions.
In addition to the 82 companywide layoffs – 60 full-time and 22 part-time employees – the Observer will reduce the hours of some employees. Sixteen full-time newsroom staffers and 11 part-time employees are part of the layoffs.
The moves come after the Observer’s parent company, Sacramento, Calif.-based McClatchy Co.,, said this month it would slash 1,600 jobs and reduce salaries to lower operating expenses.
Job losses = 82
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1000 jobs to be cut at DMGT (Daily Mail).
The Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) media group said today it would cut 1000 jobs this year, over twice as many as previously forecast.
The job reductions, the latest blow to the ailing media sector, will hit its regional arm, although further cuts are planned “across all cost categories” at Associated Newspapers, owner of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday.
Denver Post lays off 40 employee
The Denver Post’s business arm laid off 40 employees today as the first phase of a planned 200-worker reduction of its 1050-person staff over the next few weeks.
Gerald Grilly, DNA president/CEO, said in the Post’s statement.
These actions will help us shape a new business model that will allow us to adapt to new market realities.
Job losses = 40
MEN Media to axe 150 jobs.
MEN Media, the publisher of the Manchester Evening News (MEN) has said the editorial offices in Accrington, Ashton, Macclesfield, Oldham, Rochdale, Rossendale, Salford and Wilmslow will all be closing.
Falling revenues were cited as the reason for the losses. The 150 job losses includes 78 journalists across 23 newspaper titles.
Total losses = 150
Thursday sees some big company names cut jobs.
Estee Lauder Cos., the maker of Clinique and Bobbi Brown cosmetics, will cut 2000 jobs as declines in makeup and perfume sales reduced second-quarter profit.
The job cuts, which represent 6 percent of the workforce, will occur over the next two years.
Starbucks, the company that spread around the world and infected our towns and villages is not immune to the job lay offs it seems. The head office in Seattle handed out roughly 40 pink slips to human resources and security workers. A further 60 people are to go around the countryside. They are the first layoff notices since the coffee company announced plans last week to close 300 stores and eliminate 6700 positions, including 350 at headquarters. The rest of the Seattle layoffs are expected in the next couple weeks.
A kitchen cabinets manufacturer called MasterBrand has laid off about a third of its workers at a plant in Grants Pass, thats 135 people – another victim of the burst housing bubble.
In Ohio, local chemical company Lubrizol Corp. plans to let go of 170 workers in an effort to save money. Lubrizol will cut 50 jobs at its Wickliffe headquarters, 40 jobs in Brecksville and 4 in Avon.
The Wall Street Journal, one of the last major U.S. daily newspapers to avoid deep cuts to its news gathering operations amid a historic industry downturn, is trimming about two dozen (24) newsroom jobs.
Bombardier Inc., the world’s third largest maker of commercial aircraft, plans to cut 1360 jobs at its aerospace unit, or 4.5 percent of the division’s workforce, as business jet deliveries are projected to drop this year. The company will slow production of its Learjet and Challenger planes amid “greater than usual” deferrals and cancellations for its business planes.
