Cincinnati Braces for Hundreds of Layoffs
A drop in tax income is spurring the city of Cincinnati to consider laying off hundreds of city workers. City officials project a deficit of…
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Dupont to Cut 32 New York State Jobs
Chemical maker DuPont will cut 32 New York workers; 20 in Niagara Falls and 12 in Tonawanda, as part of 2,000 jobs cuts across its…
Sutter Health to Cut Its IT Staff
Sutter Health has notified its 800 information technology professionals that IT will be targeted for job cuts across the 26-hospital medical system. Contract workers in…
PCS Phosphate Firing Contractors
PCS Phosphate will eliminate 12 contractor jobs, and reassign 12 other mine workers. The firm blames delays in getting a federal permit to expand its…
Rockwell Collins to Slash 600 jobs
Rockwell Collins is cutting 30 jobs at its Richardson, Texas facility as part of a plan to eliminate 500 positions company-wide. A spokesperson for the…
Caterpillar to Bulldoze 20,000 Jobs, Freeze Salaries
Peoria, Illinois-based heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar is laying off 17,000 workers and buying out 2,500 others, to reduce costs in what it predicts will be…
Schlumberger to Cut Up to 1,000 North American Jobs
Schlumberger, the world's largest oilfield services corporation, will cut about 5% of its North American work force plus an unspecified number globally, in response to…
Google Cuts “Substantial Number” of Jobs
Menlo Park, California's Google has fired "a substantial number" of its contract and temporary employees, but did not reveal the exact number. In October, Google…