Johnson & Johnson said Tuesday that it will cut up to 8,000 employees worldwide as part of a cost-savings plan that will allow the health-care giant to expand its business.
Source: CNN Money
The Peterbilt truck plant in Madison[,TN], which has been shut down since employees were locked out in a labor dispute in June 2008, will close permanently as of Dec. 1, the company said Monday. About 390 workers will lose their jobs, said plant manager Larry Vessels.
Source: The Tenessean
Sony DADC announced it will lay off 35 workers from its Terre Haute, Indiana plant. The business currently employs more than 1,400 workers. The layoffs are scheduled to go into effect on Oct. 1.
Source: WTHITV
ConAgra Foods will lay off 300 hourly employees in Garner as a result of diminished production following the June explosion that killed three and injured dozens of others, the company told workers in a meeting Wednesday evening.
The layoffs will take effect in mid-November. In addition to the layoff of 300 workers, the company will also eliminate the jobs of 21 salaried employees. The facility currently employs about 750.
Source: TriangleBusinessJournal
Mercedes-Benz plans to cut an additional 200 jobs at its Alabama auto assembly plant by the end of this year, part of the latest effort to bring production in line with slumping global demand.
Source: TheBirminghamNews
About 164 General Electric workers are losing their jobs at the Bloomington plant.
In late July, GE had announced its decision to cancel a planned plant closure, where 530 people were employed. But now the company says the job cuts, affecting 164 workers, are necessary in response to the downturn economy and lower demand for side-by-side refrigerators.
Source: WIBC
Magna International Inc. plans to cut 10,500 jobs at General Motors Co.’s Opel unit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung reported today, citing an unidentified Magna spokesman.
About 4,500 of the total cuts will be in Germany, the newspaper said in an e-mailed summary of an article to be published tomorrow.
Source: Bloomberg
Pfeiffer Foods, Wilson’s largest private employer with 150 workers, plans to shut down its plant by the week before Thanksgiving, employees were told Thursday. The facility, which has been in operation since the early 1950s, also plans to reduce its work force to 40 by mid-October.
Pfeiffer is a division of T. Marzetti Co., which essentially is the specialty foods subsidiary of Lancaster Colony Corp., a publicly traded company based in Columbus, Ohio, that makes and sells food, housewares and automotive supplies.
Source: BuffaloNews
International pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has announced plans to lay off 113 employees at its manufacturing plant in Westborough starting next month.
The job cuts amount to a roughly 10 percent reduction in the England-based AstraZeneca’s entire Massachusetts workforce, which is split between the Westborough plant, located at 50 Otis St., and a research and development facility in Waltham.
Source: WikedLocal.com
Russia’s largest car maker, AvtoVAZ, plans to lay off 36,000 employees including 5,000 white-collar staff by December 1, following dipping auto sales and mounting losses.
The company, known for its Lada brand cars, recorded a loss of $447 million between January-June 2009 against a net profit of $47 million during the same period last year.
Source: BusinessStandard
Deere & Co. announced that 367 production workers will be laid off later this month at the East Moline plant. The layoffs are effective Sept. 21.
The factory produces combines and front-end equipment for harvesting.
Source: QCTimes
General Motors Co. will cut about 1,000 salaried jobs this month after 1,900 non-union workers accepted buyout and early-retirement offers to help trim costs.
Source: Bloomberg
Shaw Industries announced this week that it will close its Ringgold plant, leading to loss of 430 jobs. The company said that the affected employees at Plant DX will have a preference for other openings at other plants.
Source: CoosaValleyNews
(Canada, US) There were 7 more layoffs at IMP Aerospace Components in Amherst last Friday. Late last month, 30 employees got layoff notices.
Source: The Cronicle Herald
MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. said Tuesday it plans to close its Sherman, Texas, plant and portions of its St. Peters, Mo., plant, affecting 540 employees. A drop in demand for silicon wafers for semiconductor and solar applications have battered MEMC’s sales.
Source: St. Louis Business Journal
The closing of General Motors‘ Pontiac Assembly Center is about to cost up to 180 Flint truck builders their jobs.
GM confirmed Thursday that up to 180 employees at Flint Truck Assembly Plant will be displaced by Pontiac workers with enough seniority to bump them from their jobs.
Source: MLive.com
Suncor Energy Inc., Canada’s largest oil exploration and refining firm, said on Thursday it expects to cut 1,000 jobs by the middle of next month as it consolidates operations and reduces costs after its C$22.7 billion ($20.4 billion) acquisition of Petro-Canada last month.
Source: Reuters
California clothing manufacturer American Apparel will lay off 1,500 workers from its downtown Los Angeles factory because the employees are not legally authorized to work in the United States, the Los Angeles Times reports.
A government inspection two months ago uncovered 1,600 illegal workers and another 200 who had problems with their work records, including, in some cases, faked social security numbers.
Source: CBSNews
Continental Automotive Systems U.S. says it will close its automotive parts plant in Huntsville by Dec. 31 next year, laying off more than 1,000 workers. Product lines made in the Huntsville will be shifted to facilities in Seguin, Texas, and Nogales and Cuautla, Mexico.
Source: AP, MontgomeryAdvertiser
BAE systems said Wednesday that it is laying off 360 employees out of about 1,800 at its Coleman Avenue operation in Santa Clara — 20 percent of the workforce. The reduction is due to the Army’s cancellation of the Future Combat Systems Manned Ground Vehicle program, the company said.
Source: MercuryNews
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