The latest layoffs, at the Salo handset unit where it has 2200 workers, are part of a drive “to further increase production speed and efficiency for a growing smart phone market.

Source: The Associated Press

Total losses = 285

Nokia Corp. are to axe 220 jobs at research and development units in Japan as the world’s largest mobile phone maker continues to cut costs.
Last week it announced 330 job cuts in Finland and Denmark at its R&D operations that globally employ 17000 workers.

Source: Matti Huuhtanen of Associated Press

Total losses = 550

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• Nokia to cut another 450 employees.
• Nokia Siemens Network to shed up to 5700 jobs.

Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), the joint venture between Nokia and Siemens, the telecommunications groups, is set to shed up to 5700 jobs from its workforce. Rajeev Suri, its new chief executive, is trying to reinvigorate the operation by cutting €500 million (£448 million) from its cost base.

NSN said that it wanted to trim up to 9 per cent of its 64,000-strong workforce and expected to complete the cost-saving plan by 2011.

NSN, which is split 50-50 between the Finnish and German companies, has struggled over the past year. A €908 million impairment charge relating to the unit pushed Nokia, the world’s largest mobile phone maker, into the red in the third quarter. As its owners fight falling sales, they are anxious to cut its costs.

NSN has about 1000 workers in Britain, where it runs Orange’s network, as well as T-Mobile and 3 UK’s infrastructure. It also owns Apertio, a customer-management platform provider, based in Bristol, which it bought for €140 million early last year.

It is hoped that Britain will not bear the brunt of the cuts as Mr Suri is keen to refocus the NSN business on its services operations — the main part of its UK business. The company also has large numbers of staff in China, India and Brazil, as well as in Finland and Germany.

Source: Business Times Online

Job Losses = 15840

July 29: UAL Corp. lets go of 50 in Missouri.
July 29: General Electric fires another 190 in Indiana.
July 29: Intuit dismisses 120 nationwide.
July 27: General Electric dismisses 93 employees from an oil and gas facility in Wisconsin.
July 27: Verizon Communications fires 8000 workers from its wireless business.
July 23: Air Products and Chemicals fired 1150 workers.
July 21: Continental Airlines lets go of 1700 employees.
July 17: Boeing lays off 130 workers in Alabama.
July 16: Harley-Davidson fires 1000 workers from its operations in the states of Wisconsin, Illinois, and Missouri.
July 16: Cisco Systems lets go of 700 workers from its headquarters in San Jose, CA.
July 14: Norfolk Southern lays off 84 workers from one of its Alabama rail yards.
July 13: Navistar International dismisses 275 workers, most of them from Mississippi.
July 8: AGCO Corp. lays of 154 workers in Kansas.
July 6: The 3M Company lets go of 200 workers in Massachusetts.
July 1: The Dow Chemical Company cuts 2500 jobs. The layoffs are a result of the company closing three Louisiana plants.

As the recession ploughs on the worlds largest mobile phone maker is cutting another 450 jobs in the Internet services department. Recently they annouced a 90% drop in profit in their first quarter as apposed to that time last year.

Job losses = 450