THE LIST OF LAYOFFs THREAD

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Martin suggested we start a layoff thread which is a good idea. Any contributor can extract from the main story and place the basics here otherwise this thread will become unwieldy and take too long to load. So here goes: Date of article, source of article, company, number of jobs.

12-27-00 Reuters Union Pacific Corp 2000 jobs next year.

-- Guy Daley (guydaley@altavista.com), December 27, 2000

Answers

12-26-00 CSA.COM Fingerhut 575 jobs

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), December 27, 2000.
12-20-00 AP McKoen and Associates 75 jobs (CA potato plant)

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), December 27, 2000.
Thanks Guy, I think this will work great. Like you said posting all those long layoff articles is not only cumbersome but I think a lot of basic info gets lost in a long series of answers.

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), December 27, 2000.
12-18-00 CFO.com Aetna Insurance 5000 jobs (13% of workforce)

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), December 27, 2000.
What is a "long layoff thread"? Jargon guys! Happy New Year and thanks for a year of quality news! clivus

-- clivus nondog (clivus@ibm.net), December 28, 2000.
The Arizona Republic
Dec. 22, 2000

St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center
has offered approximately 800 employees
voluntarily severance packages ahead of
possible layoffs next year.

The offer was made Wednesday to all non-
management employees not involved in
direct patient care. The hospital has
about 4,000 employees.

$16 million shortfall

Persistent collection problems with that
system have been blamed on the untimely
submission of bills.

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), December 28, 2000.

12-28-00 Reuters; American Standard Plumbing, 1200 jobs, 2% of workforce.

-- Guy Daley (guydaley@altavista.com), December 28, 2000.
12-28-00 Cnet.com, Digital Broadband Communications, laid off 450 of 526 employees, or 85 percent of its work force.

-- fair use act quotation: for educational and reserach purposes (perry@ofuzzy1.com), December 28, 2000.
Bradlee's store chain. Closing all 105 stores. 10,000 lost jobs within 8 weeks.

Chrysler: Ford: Whirlpool: etc. Within last 2 weeks announced around 30,000 layoffs

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), December 28, 2000.

JUST HEARD.. DIDN'T CATCH WHOLE ITEM.

MONTGOMERY WARD MAY BE CLOSING: 37.000 employees

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), December 28, 2000.

Yup, hot off the AP newswire: Montgomery Wards is going down too. Wow. This is even bigger than Bradlees, of course, and I will post it in its own thread here to highlight this sad news. Not surprising though.

At the risk of redundancy, here's the AP story:

************************************************

Montgomery Ward To Close Operations

by MARTHA IRVINE, Associated Press Writer, 28 Dec 2000

CHICAGO (AP) -- Retailer Montgomery Ward Inc. is shutting down after more than 125 years in business and numerous attempts to entice shoppers back to its struggling stores, employees said Thursday.

Wards spokesman Chuck Knittle declined to comment but said the company planned to make an announcement later in the day.

Dozens of employees were seen leaving the company's headquarters with boxes in hand Thursday. Several said they had been told at a meeting that General Electric Co.'s GE Capital Unit, owner of the 250-store retailer, was pulling financial support from Wards in the wake of sluggish holiday sales. GE Capital referred all calls to Wards heaquarters in Chicago.

''I'm just devastated,'' Anece Rich, a 28-year Wards employee who worked in the company's mail room, said as she left Wards headquarters. ''They took care of us as best they could.''

A supplier said Wards officials had stopped accepting orders at its distribution centers and had told him they were closing all 250 stores.

''They are shutting down. It's official,'' said Ronnie Goldfinger, senior VP of Highland Park-based Performance Marketing Inc., a manufacturer's representative that sold consumer electronics to Wards.

Retail analysts also said they had heard the end of the company was near.

''It's sad. It's too bad because a lot of effort has gone into trying to save the thing,'' said Sid Doolittle, a Chicago-based retail consultant who spent 28 years as a Wards executive.

Begun in 1872, Wards pioneered mail-order catalogs when it came out with a single sheet of dry-good items for sale. It was the first U.S. mail-order house to sell general merchandise. Sears, Roebuck & Co. wasn't founded until 1886 and didn't put out its first general merchandise catalog until a decade after that.

Ward opened its first store in Plymouth, Ind., in 1926.

But the company, which now employs about 37,000 in 31 states, has been financially unstable for years.

Hope had been rekindled in August 1999 when the company emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, announcing a plan to revamp many of its stores.

But some analysts said it was too little too late.

''Wards has not established themselves as anything distinctive in the marketplace,'' said George Whalin, president of California-based Retail Management Consultants. ''There's just no reason to go there -- unless maybe they're the closest store to your house.''

Whalin said it had become increasingly difficult for Wards to survive in a retail market swamped with competitors -- everything from Home Depot to Best Buy and Target.

News of Wards' apparent demise comes two days after Massachusetts- based discount retailer Bradlees Inc. announced that it is going out of business.

''It's brutal. It's as competitive as anything out there,'' Whalin said.

Wards had been shooting for sales growth this year of about 9 percent. Instead, it hovered at a sluggish 2 percent.

''It's like leaving part of your life behind. My heart's breaking, but I'm going to go and look for another job, because that's all you can do,'' Sharon Bray, a 35-year employee who worked in systems quality assurance, told WBBM.

She held out little hope that anything would save her job.

''No more Wards, not unless someone jumps in and buys us,'' she said.

On the Net: Montgomery Ward: http://www.wards.com

-- Andre Weltman (aweltman@state.pa.us), December 28, 2000.

As Joe Friday would say: Just the facts please.

Please post: date, news service, the company and the number of victims.

This is a very sad thread to say the least.

-- (perry@ofuzzy1.com), December 28, 2000.

Date of article Dec 28th ( MSNBC ) Union Pacific Railroad. to cut 2,000 jobs. in 2001

-- kevin (ktross@mailcity.com), December 28, 2000.
12/28 " The Street " reports... ECI Telcom to cut workforce by 400

-- kevin (ktross@mailcity.com), December 28, 2000.
12-28-00 ZDNET Applied Microsystems 20 people (8% of workforce)

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), December 28, 2000.
12-29-00 Reuters, LTV files for bankruptcy, 18,000 jobs at stake unless they can find additional financing in a credit tight market.

-- Guy Daley (guydaley@altavista.com), December 29, 2000.

Forgive me if any of these are repeats, I'm going back though the list.

23dec-00 yahoo, GM would lay off 15,000 people (I believe this is over 5 years and many of the engineering jobs are moving south to Mexico.)

Dec18, 2000(Reuters) Aetna Inc. 5,000 positions

Dec 18 2k (Reuters) - Cavion Technologies Inc. 69 of its 86 employees.

13dec2k Reuters Whirlpool to Cut Up to 6,300 Jobs

12 December2000, BBC, GM Vauxhall to close UK car plant about 2,500 jobs.

11dec2000, ?, A&P Food filing for Bankruptcy 750-stores

06dec2000, AP newswire, TSR Wireless pager service 1,700 people jobless

01dec2000 reuters, Delphi automotive to Lay Off 1,700 Hourly Employees December 1, 2000

Nov 16 (AFP) Mitsubishi Australia chief furious at claims plants could close, potentially affecting 20,000 workers.

-- fair use act quotation: for educational and reserach purposes (perry@ofuzzy1.com), December 29, 2000.

So far 93,489 jobs

Welcome to the New Year folks, may your family be blessed with a safe one.

-- (perry@ofuzzy1.com), December 29, 2000.

The Monkey Ward story is the big one. What a kick in the groin. I have four relatives losing their jobs.

-- Uncle Fred (dogboy45@bigfoot.com), December 29, 2000.
Add 90 more Perry

12-19-00 Berlitz International Inc. N.J.-based language instruction Company Reuters 90 jobs ist quarter 01

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), December 29, 2000.

Here's a site with up-to-date layoff info:

http://www.hrlive.com/

-- JustaNumber (AtTheMill@Town.com), December 29, 2000.

12-28-00 Charlotte Observer First Union Corp 40 jobs (20 percent of workforce)

Web unit

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), December 29, 2000.

12=29-00 Reuters Daewoo Motors 6,884 jobs (60% of workforce)

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), December 29, 2000.
12-30-00 AP Abitibi newsprint mill 170 jobs

181 year old mill

http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/local/mill30.shtml

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), December 30, 2000.

12-30-00 Covad Communications 400 jobs (14% of workforce)

400 more were laid off last month.

http://www.techweb.com/wire/finance/story/INV20001229S0005

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), December 30, 2000.

Dec. 31, 2000 Saw on financial network: Experts saying some company named Corus planning on laying off 10,000

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), December 31, 2000.
12-31-00 Corus is a large UK steel company that plans to lay off up to 10,000. Total workforce 27,500. They have already laid off 4,500 so far this year.

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), December 31, 2000.
01-02-03 NACCO Lift truck assembly plant 680 jobs

http://www.contracostatimes.com/biztech/stories_bizwire/799627l.htm

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 02, 2001.

1-2-2001 space.com may have shut its washington office.. unknown number of layoffs.

1-2-2001 letsbuyit.com may have shut down.. chapter 11 unknown number of layoffs

1-2-2001 Breakaway Solutions expanding layoffs from 10% which was completed in October to 30%. Unknown number of layoffs

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 02, 2001.

Dec. 1, 2000 Conectiv Communications - (Del. Md. Va. PA) 80 jobs,(25% of work force), by end of Dec. 2000

-- Allan Browne (albrowne@att.net), January 02, 2001.
Jan. 3. 2001 Pegasystems to reduce workforce by 13%. Unknown number of employees.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 03, 2001.
2000-01-03 Office Depot Inc. will cut its contract sales force by 10 percent, close 70 North American stores, and take a fourth-quarter charge of $280-$300 million in a vast restructuring.

Office Depot has a total at about 48,000 workers (Reuters)

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), January 03, 2001.

ACK! 2001-01-03 :-§

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), January 03, 2001.
Still got the y2k bug spider?

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 03, 2001.
Jan 3, 2000 Don't know if this has been posted in past. American Standard closing plant. 270 employees "poof"

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 03, 2001.
Jan. 3, 2000 Foodline.com filed chapter 11 bankruptcy and laid off their entire staff. Unknown number of employees.

Jan. 3, 2000 Funeral site Legacy.com laid off 16 of 33 employees

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 03, 2001.

Has daddy Greenspan saved us? Will the decrease in the interest rate save America? Are those who are scooping up stocks today idiots or what? (Still have my y2k supplies ready and waiting...... :)

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 03, 2001.
01-03-01 Tumbleweed Communications reducing work force by 20%

http://money.iwon.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_rt.jsp?section=news&news_id=reu- 86728&feed=reu&date=20010103&cat=TOPBIZ

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 03, 2001.

Hey spider, looks like that Office Depot layoff is a little higher that expected..maybe. AP out of Mass. says 1,520 jobs will be affected. Closer to 30%, I think. ouch...

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/003/economy/Office_Depot_to_close_70_s tore:.shtml

-- Doris (nocents@bellsouth.net), January 03, 2001.

December Internet failures cost investors $1.5 billion, report says, eliminating 12,000 to 15,000 jobs. Electronic commerce firms accounted for 109 shutdowns, or more than half. Content providers accounted for 60 of the shutdowns, services 27 and infrastructure 14.

http://www.star- telegram.com/news/doc/1047/1:COMP42/1:COMP420103101.html

-- Doris (nocents@bellsouth.net), January 03, 2001.

01-03-01 Listen.com, Space.com 51 jobs.

http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB978558042118758100.htm

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 03, 2001.

01/04/01 Eck Miller Transportation, Reo, IN The decision to close will affect about 800 drivers — including owner-operators and company drivers.

http://www.courierpress.com/cgi- bin/view.cgi?/200101/04+truckers010401_news.html+20010104+news

-- Doris (nocents@bellsouth.net), January 04, 2001.

01/04/01 Dana Corp. idled nearly 1,000 employees at its Fort Wayne operation last year hoping to remain competitive, despite some slumps in the auto industry.

Just three days into the new year, the auto parts supplier is sidelining an additional 338 employees.

http://www.journalgazette.net/news/top1.htm

-- Doris (nocents@bellsouth.net), January 04, 2001.

The Sears decision to close 89 of its "underperforming" stores will assuredly include the layoffs of hundreds (thousands?) of employees.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 04, 2001.
01-04-01 Financial printing firm Bowne & Co. Inc. 3% of workforce

http://www.siliconinvestor.com/headlines/financial/20010104/271434.htm l

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 04, 2001.

01-04-01 Software marketing firm Engage Inc 550 jobs

http://www.siliconinvestor.com/headlines/technology/20010104/271335.ht ml

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 04, 2001.

US Employers Oust 134,000 Workers In December - Update By Kevin Featherly, Newsbytes NEW YORK, NEW YORK, U.S.A., 04 Jan 2001, 1:28 PM CST In what is being called the most extraordinary loss of jobs in a single month since the early 1990s, US employers in December announced plans to cut 133,713 jobs, according to a survey issued today.

http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/160056.html

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 04, 2001.

Reports Show Weakening Labor Market Thursday January 4, 4:55 PM EST By Barbara Hagenbaugh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing for new unemployment benefits climbed to its highest level in 2-1/2 years last week and layoffs at U.S. firms jumped more than 200 percent in December, according to two reports released Thursday that showed a softening U.S. labor market.

http://money.iwon.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_rt_top.jsp? cat=TOPBIZ&src=202§ion=news&news_id=reu- 37306&date=20010104&alias=/alias/money/cm/nw

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 04, 2001.

01-04-01 Discount retailer Ann & Hope Inc 1,400 workers in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA1KZ51LHC.html

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 04, 2001.

01-04-01 Sears Roebuck and Co. close 89 stores and eliminate 2,400 jobs

http://www.siliconinvestor.com/headlines/financial/20010104/271612.htm l

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 05, 2001.

January 5, 2001 Lockheed- closing plant - 676 employees laidoff.

January 5, 2001 Xerox is transferring production of a line of digital office-equipment products to a plant in Mexico and cutting about 200 union jobs at its manufacturing hub in suburban Rochester.

January 5, 2001 GMT News Corp - 200 web workers

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 05, 2001.

January 5, 2001 eToys is laying off 60% of their employees. 950 employees. Also closing its British office.

January 5, 2001 Vault.com: Laid off about 30 of 100 employees.

January 5, 2001 Paul Allen's Mercata.com will cease operations effective January 31st, 2001

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 05, 2001.

04jan2001 AP, Since October, Xerox has eliminated 3,200 jobs, 550 of them in Rochester, Carone said. The company currently employs about 94,000 people worldwide.

-- fair use act quotation: for educational and reserach purposes (perry@ofuzzy1.com), January 05, 2001.
Jan. 5, 2001 ADC Lays Off 400 Workers U.S. telecoms equipment maker ADC Telecommunications Inc. Friday it laid off 18 percent of its systems integration employees in a move to boost profitability in the unit. 400 of the 2,300 workers in its systems integration division, which includes equipment installation.

[Oh, yes your job for profitability - go feed & house your family on that!]

-- fair use act quotation: for educational and reserach purposes (perry@ofuzzy1.com), January 05, 2001.

2001-jan-05 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Eye products maker Bausch & Lomb Inc. raised the number of planned job cuts to 800 from 450 in a continuing restructuring. The layoffs will total nearly 7 percent of its work force.

[yup, sack the CEO and then whack some employees too - just for fun.]

-- fair use act quotation: for educational and reserach purposes (perry@ofuzzy1.com), January 05, 2001.

01-05=01

Yesterday, Laurel-based Cidera Inc. and Advertising.com Inc. of Baltimore joined the list of area technology companies that laid off workers over the past three days. Cidera and Advertising.com, which eliminated 100 and 72 jobs, respectively, received some of the area's largest venture-capital infusions in 2000Yesterday, Laurel-based Cidera Inc. and Advertising.com Inc. of Baltimore joined the list of area technology companies that laid off workers over the past three days. Cidera and Advertising.com, which eliminated 100 and 72 jobs, respectively, received some of the area's largest venture-capital infusions in 2000Yesterday, Laurel-based Cidera Inc. and Advertising.com Inc. of Baltimore joined the list of area technology companies that laid off workers over the past three days. Cidera and Advertising.com, which eliminated 100 and 72 jobs, respectively, received some of the area's largest venture-capital infusions in 2000

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21440-2001Jan4.html

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 05, 2001.

Jan. 5, 2001 - MShow.com has cut 24 percent of its labor - 53 job cuts, including 20 in Colorado

http://www.denverpost.com/business/biz0105a.htm

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 05, 2001.

1-05-01 Southern California Edison 1,450 jobs

http://abcnews.go.com/local/kabc/news/46345_122001.htmlhttp://abcnews. go.com/local/kabc/news/46345_122001.html

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 05, 2001.

One thing that must we must realize along with these layoffs is that many companies who are not laying off employees ARE ASSUREDLY CUTTING OVERTIME for fulltime employees and perhaps hours for part-time workers. This relates to a huge loss of pay (paycut) for employees who have perhaps been working overtime for years and have come to consider it part of their normal take home pay and have come to depend on it in figuring their bills every month. So, in addition to the hundreds of thousands of layoffs the past months, possibly hundreds of thousands more have lost take home pay due to cut overtime hours, etc. I've been thinking of this for some time and tonight on the NBC news they had a feature of one company which has indeed cut out all overtime, etc.

Not only is this a cut in pay for individual employees and their families but it is also possibly millions of dollars no longer entering our economy since these families are surely cutting back on spending money they were used to receiving every payday.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 06, 2001.

January 5, 2001 Listen.com - 25% of employees - unknown number

January 5, 2001 Engage.com - 50% of employees - unknown number

January 5, 2001 Beenz.com - 43 employees.

January 5, 2001 Fox.com & FoxSports.com etc. 100s of employees

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 06, 2001.

Bausch & Lomb to cut 350 additional Jobs citing weak sales. 01-05-01 Bridge News.

-- kevin (ktross@mailcity.com), January 06, 2001.
01-06-01 Dana Corp. 365 hourly employees Indiana

http://www.journalgazette.net/news/top1.htm

01-06-01 Greer Steel Co 35 jobs

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm? newsid=1249144&BRD=1701&PAG=461&dept_id=47944&rfi=6

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 06, 2001.

1-06-01 ADC Telecommunications 400 of the 2,300 workers in its systems integration division400 of the 2,300 workers in its systems integration division. 18 percent of its systems integration employees

http://www.siliconinvestor.com/headlines/technology/20010105/271948.ht ml

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 06, 2001.

01-06-01 Odetics Inc., a supplier of communications equipment

140 jobs 25% of workforce. Odetics is based in Anaheim, Ca.

http://www.latimes.com/business/20010105/t000001279.html

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 06, 2001.

1/6/01 Southern California Edison Co. 1450 jobs cut in the next few months. (They've already layed off another 400, bringing the total to ~13.6% of their workforce.)

http://www.worldtribune.com/front.html

-- Deb Mc. (vmcclell@columbus.rr.com), January 06, 2001.

KMart is laying off too. Not like they had a cast of dozens to begin with. Never was much help on the floor. They messed up when they totally reorganized their store format, without floor help. Po people need directions too.

-- Where da KMart thread? (my story andI@sticking.com), January 07, 2001.
January 6, 2001 Humana - 28 employees (changes in the business environment--fancy words for "recession")

January 6, 2001 Cherokee Jeep ceasing to be produced. Kenosha, Wisconsin Chrysler workers who are on temporary layoff already to reduce inventory, may be placed on indefinate layoff (fired).

January 6, 2001 Lernout & Haupie - 1200 employees (20%). Restructuring cause of legal problems and bankruptcy protection. Voice controlled computer technology.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 07, 2001.

January 6, 2001

SEYMOUR, Ind. -- Valeo Sylvania has announced it will lay off about 170 hourly employees within the next two weeks.

The company also eliminated 10 percent of its salaried positions.

The Seymour-based manufacturer had eliminated 29 positions in mid- December

http://www.starnews.com/business/articles/sylvania0107.html

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 07, 2001.

January 5, 2001

FFI Corp., the Beech Grove maker of grain dryers and grain-handling equipment, has shut down operations and is selling off its inventory, plant and equipment, ending 53 years of production.

The closure affects about 100 union workers and about 30 office personnel.

http://www.starnews.com/business/articles/farmfan0105.html

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 07, 2001.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Media company New York Times Co. (NYSE:NYT - news) said on Sunday it would cut 69 jobs, or 17 percent of the positions, at its online unit.

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20010107/wr/times_digital_dc_1.html

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 07, 2001.

1-06-01

Weehawken, N.J.-based Hanover Direct, which sells a variety of products from women's, men's and children's clothing to home goods, is eliminating 285 jobs from a total of about 2,500

http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/010105/n05312268.html

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 07, 2001.

January 7, 2001 4,500 UK steelworkers at Corus had already been told in mid-2000 that their jobs were going.

Now the UK-Dutch steel maker Corus has told unions that they should prepare for the closure of the Llanwern steelworks in south Wales which employs 3,000 people.Monday.m to withdraw compulsory redundancies."

Corus's internal review is also expected to result in job losses at plants in Rotherham, Scunthorpe and Teeside in England and several other sites in south Wales.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 08, 2001.

01/08/01

Ameritrade is planning to cut 350 jobs, close to 10 percent of its total workforce, a result of declining revenue as trading volumes subside.

The Omaha-based broker confirmed Monday that 230 full-time jobs and 120 temporary jobs would be slashed.

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 08, 2001.

MONTREAL, Jan 8 (Reuters) - French transportation group Alstom SA (ALSO) said on Monday that nearly two-thirds of the workers at its Montreal production site will be laid off temporarily because of postponed rail orders resulting from the U.S. economic slowdown

The layoffs will hit 550 workers and will be phased in beginning this week until the end of February.

http://money.iwon.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_rt.jsp?section=news&news_id=reu- n08310273&feed=reu&date=20010108&cat=INDUSTRY

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 08, 2001.

01/08/01 Jet Engine Maker Pratt & Whitney Cuts Another 106 Jobs HARTFORD Conn. (AP) - Pratt & Whitney is laying off another 106 hourly workers, including 93 at its North Haven plant and 13 at its Middletown plant, Pratt spokesman Mark Sullivan said.

http://www.ctnow.com/scripts/editorial.dll? bfromind=1617&eeid=3793467&eetype=article&render=y&ck=&userid=29787776 6&userpw=.&uh=297877766,0,&ver=2.11

-- Doris (nocents@bellsouth.net), January 08, 2001.

January 8, 2001 Savvio.com, shut down after only 4 months in business. Unknown number of employees

January 8, 2001 PNV.com filed for bankruptcy. Unknown number of employees.

January 8, 2001 MusicMaker.com liquidating & closing. Unknown number of employees.

January 8, 2001 Kozmo.com closed 3 locations -- Portland, San Diego, and Chicago. Over 100 employees laid off.

January 8, 2001 Chemdex.com closing. 235 employees..

January 8, 2001 Industry Standard magazine may lay off about 400 people.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 09, 2001.

I think this may be in addition to previous layoffs announced at Delphi.

January 8, 2001 Delphi closed plant in Brazil. 450 employees fired.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 09, 2001.

http://news.theolympian.com/stories/20010109/HomePageStories/170676.sh tml
Tumwater firm issues plea for power relief
300 employees
The company will soon announce 35 layoffs, Franz said.
"It's safe to say we're fighting for our lives," CNC Container Corp
"Our employees are terrified."
"Without help, the power rates will be a death sentence for our company,"


-- spider (spider0@usa.net), January 09, 2001.
Cypress prepares for massive layoffs Jan 08, 2001 10:41 AM ET

Late Friday, the company said that it expects a loss of $64 million -- before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization -- on revenue of about $20 million for 2001. In an effort to cut costs, the 623- employee company will lay off 40 to 45 percent of its workforce -- roughly 250 people -- by the middle of the year and target only 13 markets. In September, the company said that it would target 27 markets.

http://www.localbusiness.com/Story/0,1118,ATL_563731,00.html

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 09, 2001.

RIVERTON, Wyo. (AP) - Bonneville Transloaders Inc., one of Riverton's biggest employers, plans to lay off 10 percent of its workforce. The company said more than 30 of its 300 local employees will be laid off effective Jan. 15 "due to a loss of 25 percent of our soda ash business."

http://www.trib.com/HOMENEWS/WYO/9BonnevilleLayoffs.html

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 09, 2001.

Alstom Canada Inc.'s transport division felt the U.S. recession shivers yesterday as the Montreal rail-equipment firm said it will lay off indefinitely 550 people from its work force of 830 from its Point St. Charles yards.
http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/pages/010109/5069361.html

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), January 09, 2001.
January 10, 2001 Another Delphi layoff. After announcing two days ago that they were closing their Brazil plant and firing 450 employees, now they are reducing workforce at Mexico plant and laying off 6% of their workforce.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 10, 2001.
January 10, 2001 PowerAdz.com cut one-third of its work force.

January 10, 2001 Ibetcha.com may have closed down

January 10, 2001 RunningStart.com laid off around 60.

January 10, 2001 BeyondWork.com may have laid off 50% of workforce today -- about 35 employees.

January 10, 2001 GetConnected.com, a Boston based shopping site for cell phones, laid off about 18. 65 left.

January 10, 2001 StreetMail.com may have laid off 50.

January 10, 2001 Send.com may have shut down. Unknown number of employees.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 10, 2001.

Some of these are a couple weeks old but still relevent. I tried not to replicate anything that has been posted before. Take the time to read down this list as some of them are really bad. Some of these companies laid off thousands of employees.

December 23, 2000 Air Canana slashes 8% of workforce. 3500 employees. Also increasing air fares 6% and reporting disappointing losses in February. Analysts expect more cuts in future.

January 3, 2001 Robison's Inc. (snowmobile ad motorcycle clothing manufacturer) laid off 27 seamstresses to make clothes in countries with cheaper labor.

January 3, 2001 IMC Global Inc. (Phosphates Co.) will indefinitely shut down all phosphate fertilizer production at its Louisiana plant in January. Unknown number of employees.

December 22, 2000 Aristech Chemical firing 100 employees because of buyout by Sunoco.

December 30, 2000 Waco's Cargill Foods laid off 120 permanently and 72 temporarily.

December 28, 2000 Dairy Gold of Cheyenne, Laramie and Ft. Collins, Colorado shutting doors and laying off 37. Result of a buyout by Suiza Food Corp, parent company of competitor, Meadow Gold Dairy.

January 3, 2001 4Anything Network (online search co. in Wayne, NJ) laid off 40 of 54 employees. 74% if workforce.

December 29, 2000 10Best Inc. laid off 22 to "become profitable" by reducing workforce.

January 3, 2001 24/7 Media laid off 100 workers. Might sell off units to raise money.

January 4, 2001 Blast Radius laid off 25.

December 29, 2000 Breakaway Solutions Inc. fired 200 three months after firing 90 employees.

January 4, 2001 Cyberplex Inc. laid off about 60.

January 3, 2001 Etensity Inc. (Web design) laid off unknown number of employees.

January 4, 2001 Foodline.com filed for bankruptcy.

Janaury 3, 2001 Fourth Shift Corp eliminated 40.

December 22, 2000 Iconixx Corp laid off 100 of 500.

December 28, 2000 Influence LLC cut 20 employees.

January 4, 2001 Listen.com laid off 25% or 42 employees.

December 29, 2000 Maverix.net Inc. laid off 80% in early December and had skeleton staff widing down operations.

December 30, 2000Max Broadcasting Networks Inc. Laid off half of employees. 12 employees left out of 25.

January 3, 2001 On2.com Inc. 40% or 52 workers laid off.

December 22, 2000 OnlineChoice.com 2nd cut in 3 months laid off 15 of 46 workers.

December 23, 2000 PlanetGov.com laid off 45

January 4, 2001 PNV laid off 190

January 4, 2001 Smart Online laid off 19 leaving 50 in Durham.

January 3, 2001 Sputnik7.com acquired Epitonic.com which laid off half of staff -- 16 employees.

January 3, 2001 U.S. Interactive Inc. Closing King of Prussia headquarters by March 23rd and laying off remaining 43 workers.

December 29, 2000 VCampus Corp. laidoff 1/3 or 39 people.

January 3, 2001 Viador Inc. eliminating 36% or 87 jobs.

December 22, 2000 Choice Hotels International Inc. eliminating 140.

December 23, 2000 Cinram International inc. cutting 2001 employees out of 3500.

January 4, 2001 Federal-Mogul Corp shuttering or consolidating 21 facilities in next two years. Refused to say how many employees would be laid off.

January 3, 2001 Imperial Home Decor Group Inc. closed Brampto, Ontario factory. Had 400 employees at one time but now 165 were employed at factory.

January 4, 2001 Moore Corp reducing workforce 10% over nexst 30 to 60 days. This is out of 16,000 employees so it should be around 1600 employees affected.

January 3, 2001 VICO Technologies added 20 employees to a total of 80 laid off since early Dec. which is 50%

December 23, 2000 Weirton Steel Corp laying off 25%. 1080 of 4300 laid off.

December 30, 2000 Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp laying off another 280. Declared bankruptcy Nov. 16th.

January 4, 2001 Bowne & Co. Inc. reducing workforce 3% through attrition, layoffs and some reassignments.

December 29, 2000 J. Banker Inc. who operates licensed shoe departments for some retail chains including Bradless which is closing and firing 9800 employees, laying off 411 J. Baker employees when Bradless closes.

December 28, 2000 FairPoint Communicatoins letting go 140.

December 30, 2000 Jato Communications discontinuing operations. Employed about 500 as recently as September. Remaining 68 employees let go.

January 3, 2001 Intrenet Inc. Immediately shutting down and layig off most of 1700 employees.

December 28, 2000 Commordore Holding limited shut down 3 cruise ships, filed for chapter 11, and laid off 110. Couldn't afford mortgage payments of 3 ships.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 10, 2001.

January 10, 2001 Loew's Cineplex closing up to 30 screens or theatres. Uknown number of employees but if each employess just 10 this would be about 300. More if each theatre employees more than 10.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 10, 2001.
ABC to shed 105 TV production jobs

Source: AAP|Published: Thursday January 11, 6:31 AM

The ABC is reportedly set to shed 105 television production jobs to meet budget cuts. (Australian Broadcasting Co.)

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 10, 2001.

January 11, 2001 BAE reported to be laying off about 2000 employees.

January 11, 2001 Brio -Wisconsin custom toy maker. World's largest maker of wooden toys. Laying off 23 of 78 employees. 55 left.

January 11, 2001 Merrill Lynch laying off employees.

January 11, 2001 Wine.com laying off employees after being bought by another wine company.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 11, 2001.

01-11-01

OTTAWA - Nortel Networks has confirmed reports it's cut almost 1,000 jobs in its Canadian operations, with 750 workers being let go in Ottawa and about 200 more chopped at its research headquarters in Brampton.

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 11, 2001.

January 11, 2001 Adelphia 8% of workforce.

January 11, 2001 Snowball.com Inc. 20% of workforce.

January 11, 2001 Service Merchandise Co. Inc. 23% of workforce. 1750 employees.

January 11, 2001 CNN may be laying off up to 1000 employees.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 11, 2001.

January 11, 2001 Company: CyberBuck.com filed for bankruptcy. Unknown number of employees.

January 11, 2001 Eality.com laid off about half. Unknown number of employees.

January 11, 2001 Liquor.com may have laid off all of their staff.

January 11, 2001 Loudeye.com laid off 50.

January 11, 2001 PingPong.com may be closing. Unknown number of employees..

January 11, 2001 wwwrrr.com may have closed.

January 11, 2001 Oven closed down their London office and laid off 200 people.

January 11, 2001 NationTax.commay have laid off 12%.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 11, 2001.

Gateway

The company said it is taking a number of actions to improve prospects for improved growth and profitability, including a 10 percent reduction in its work force

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 11, 2001.

January 12, 2001 It appears that Nortel has not laid off just 1000 employees, but will be laying off 4000 employees.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 12, 2001.
January 12, 2001 The Gateway layoffs are 3000 employees.

January 12, 2001 NBC laying off 300 employees.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 12, 2001.

12-01-00 The Irish Times 260 jobs at Thermo King plant, Blanchardstown, Dublin, 170 jobs Henniges Car Components, Ballina, Co. Mayo

www.ireland.com/newspaper/front/2001/0112/index.htm

-- William Wallace (braveheart@highlands.com), January 12, 2001.

EMusic, a Web site that sells direct digital downloads of music, said Friday it would lay off more than a third of its staff as part of a new round of restructuring.

This is the second round of layoffs for the company within the last year. Close to 20 percent of the staff was cut last June.

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-4463094.html? tag=st.ne.1002.thed.ni

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 12, 2001.

American Electric Power

The Columbus-based utility said it will lay off 225 of its 235 workers at the Windsor Coal Co. underground mine in West Liberty, W.Va., and 145 of the 150 workers at the Central Ohio Coal Co. surface mine in Cumberland.

http://www.nj.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi? o0283_BC_OH--AEP-Layoffs&&news&newsflash-financial

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 12, 2001.

January 13, 2001 3Com Corp., which employs 2,000 workers in the Chicago area, plans to cut jobs in February as part of a move to reduce costs and return to profitability, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company's new CEO, Bruce Claflin, said last week in a video broadcast to employees. One source estimates the computer networking company could fire as many as 20% of its 9,600 employees worldwide, which would translate to 400 jobs locally

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=1311

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 13, 2001.

Moore Corp. announces layoffs • January 14, 2001 Bannockburn-based Moore Corp. laid off 30 corporate staffers last week as part of a recently announced $100-million cost-cutting initiative, a company source confirmed. Newly appointed President and CEO Robert G. Burton has said the business-forms company would have to trim its ranks.

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=1313

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 14, 2001.

DENTON -- A national slowdown in the trucking industry is putting the brakes on part of Denton's economy.

Peterbilt Motors Co., Denton's largest private employer, said a round of layoffs at its Denton assembly plant would take effect Jan. 12 in response to the industry slowdown. Peterbilt, which laid off workers last year as well, also said it would idle its production line on Jan. 15 and 16.

http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/2001/01/15/story1.html

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 15, 2001.

Motorolla to cut 2,500 jobs 01-15-01 Bloomberg News

-- kevin (ktross@mailcity.com), January 15, 2001.
01-15-01

Internet venture firm and start-up incubator Idealab! has laid off about 10 percent of its 170 employees across its offices but has apparently spared a full closure of the New York offices.

http://la.internet.com/news/article/0,,5321_560481,00.html

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 15, 2001.

The production cutbacks take place as DaimlerChrysler executives are about to announce a major restructuring plan that will involve wiping out between 20,000 and 40,000 jobs and the possible sale of all or part its cash-strapped US Chrysler division.

Delphi Automotive Systems announced that another 1,100 workers in eight plants located in the Dayton, Ohio

Chrysler has announced plans to idle 30,000 workers, with the shutdown of five factories during the weeks beginning January 8 and January 29

GM announced plans to close 12 facilities during the month involving another 25,600 workers.

GM management has also decided to eliminate about 14,000—mostly white collar—jobs in North America and Europe, close an engine plant in Lansing, Michigan, cutting 900 jobs, and another plant in Luton, England, resulting in the loss of 2,000 more jobs. The company will cut European capacity by 15 percent.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/jan2001/auto-j16.shtml

Mobile phone and computer chip giant, Motorola, is to cease manufacturing cellular phones at its Harvard plant in North America with the loss of 2,500 jobs.

http://www.newsroom.co.nz/story/36954.html

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), January 16, 2001.

Online interactive sports network Quokka Sports recently pinkslipped 90 employees. The layoffs come on the heels of several acquisitions from earlier this year. Before the cuts, company employed 460 staffers. --------------------- Rich media portal StreamSearch has laid off 50 of its 200-person staff. The cuts were across the board, affecting technical, development, sales and marketing divisions.

------------- Venice-based digital studio and syndicator WireBreak recently let go a little over half its staff. WireBreak reportedly employed about 45 people.

------------ Running out of loot is no laughing matter. Just ask cartoon Netco Dotcomix. The company recently laid off its staff and ceased operations after its venture capital ran dry. The company reportedly employed around 45 staffers.

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 16, 2001.

January 17, 2001 BorgWarner laying off close to 200

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 17, 2001.
Auto layoffs highest since early 1990s Industry cuts 85,231 jobs in 2000, keeps slashing in new year

By Mark Truby / The Detroit News

DETROIT -- Auto industry layoffs tripled last year, reaching the highest levels since the early 1990s, as the red-hot car market slowed drastically in the second half of the year.

http://www.detnews.com/2001/autos/0101/17/a01-176949.htm

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 17, 2001.

End of thread

Please post here List of Layoffs II

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), January 17, 2001.

By rough calculations this is over 170,000 jobs. Including: Nortel=4000 CNN=1000 Sears=2400 Xerox=3200 3com=400 Motorla=2500 GM's White Collars=14000 Not Including: Those companies that had no real numbers, just percentages.

USA Big three auto except for the GM's 14000 Engineers LTV Steel A&P Gorcery UK's Corus=14500 GM=2500 Oven=200 Irish Times=260 Hennigec Car Parts=170 Austrialia Mitsubishi=20K [not sure the status of this] Austrailian ABC=105 Brazil Delphi=450 Korea Deawoo=6884

Total Worldwide ~216507. This does not include the loss of overtime.



-- (perry@ofuzzy1.com), January 17, 2001.

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