List of Layoffs II

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Hope nobody mind this hijacking. The other
thread was getting to long to load :-§

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

Answers

I was thinking the same. That thread was getting way to long.

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 17, 2001.
The way the economy is going we might have to have a bunch of Layoff threads.

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 17, 2001.
Here's a link to the old list for reference.
LIST OF LAYOFFs

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
01/12/01
PricewaterhouseCoopers said it is laying off about 400 consultants, or 3% of its North American consulting work force.

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

My 1.4 cents. Am I the only one noticing that, on the old thread, as the quantity of posts increased the number indicated decreased? At one point its number was up to 45 then, as new posts were added, its number declined. Odd.

-- Rachel Gibson (rgibson@hotmail.com), January 17, 2001.

By rough calculations this is over 170,000 jobs.

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

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

I noticed that also. It was up to 51 posts at one time. I think that it has something to do with the archiving. There were no posts removed from the thread because I would have to do it.

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

I have seen all the announcements, through "eyes opened". The drastic lay offs. It is not a pretty picture, once you have the opportunity to align the effect. May Heaven, prove me wrong.

-- My Story (andI@sticking.com), January 17, 2001.
In California, if the energy crisis is not solved soon, they can expect an economic downturn like no one has ever seen since the Great Depression. SCE & PGE employ over 35,000 employees, not included are contractors, hiring hall employees, etc. If PG&E were to go under, so will their suppliers and the tickle down effect will be devastating.

-- candice (candice@zonk.zom), January 17, 2001.
Colorado

Rhythms NetConnections Inc., a high-speed Internet provider, Tuesday laid off 390 employees at its Arapahoe County headquarters and 60 others nationwide. Rhythms' job cuts account for about 23 percent of its work force nationwide.

http://www.denver-rmn.com/business/0117rhtm1.shtml

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 18, 2001.

Martin, I hadn't intended to imply that posts were being removed from the thread. I knew it had something to do with the software, but it's a new and different problem that I haven't noticed before, and it is confusing because I rely on the numbers to tell me if new posts have been added to a thread.

-- Rachel Gibson (rgibson@hotmail.com), January 18, 2001.
January 18, 2001 GM could be close to announcing 60,000 to 80,000 layoffs tonight's news reported.

January 18, 2001 Allegheny Techologies Closed Plant. Laid off unknown number of employees.

January 18, 2001 Hyundai Technologies (or some offshoot of Hyundai) laying off 25% workforce.

January 18, 2001 CSFB (Hope I got initials right) laying off 8%. Unknown number.

Obviously if and when the GM layoffs occur, it is the biggest one and quite frightening. The "trickle down" effect of suppliers losing sales and probably following with layoffs and that many good paying jobs lost and perhaps a billion (2 or 3 billion?) more dollars of wages not being spent in the market place will have a "multiplying" effect on other businesses from TVs, DVD players, restaurants, toys, etc. will also be devastating to the economy.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 18, 2001.

IL: Premcor, an oil refinery near Blue Island with a long history of environmental and safety violations will shut down at the end of the month, leaving 297 people out of work.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/oil18.html

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), January 18, 2001.
Credit Suisse First Boston cutting 250 investment professional jobs Prudential Securities cutting 250 investment bankers Bears Stearns.. 63 IT professionals J.P. Moragan 1,000 employees to be cut

-- kevin (ktross@mailcity.com), January 18, 2001.
Take a look at the Dot.Com layoff list

http://interactive.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/dotcomlayoffs.ht m

-- kevin (ktross@mailcity.com), January 18, 2001.

January 19, 2001 NBCi 100 employees

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 18, 2001.
January 16, 2001 SwitchHouse.com may have laid off a about 15.

January 16, 2001 Looksmart laid off 170 people. About 30%.

January 16, 2001 SeeItWork.com may have laid off all but 4.

January 16, 2001 Intershop may cut one-third of its workforce.

January 16, 2001 ChannelPoint.com may have laid off around 15%.

January 16, 2001 Audiobase.com may have laid off unknown number of employees.

January 16, 2001 LivePerson is laying off 60 people. About 35%.

January 15, 2001 Emusic.com laid off over 60 people. Over one-third of staff.

January 15, 2001 AndysGarage.com will be closed as of January 31, 2001.

January 15, 2001 Xcelerate.comlaid off 51 employees.

January 15, 2001 DSL provider Bazillion.com 125 employees. Closed

January 15, 2001 Spotlife.com cutting 25%, leaving about 50.

January 15, 2001 WealthPort.com. Laid off 40% of its staff -- 11 employees.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 18, 2001.

The lusenet software only lists new answers for 7 days. Since these layoff threads are so long they start dropping off. Probably the longest threads we have had in the past is maybe 20 posts this really has never come up before.

Martin

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 18, 2001.

Just a bit of clarification to the above. Posts don't just drop off, they are just not listed as 'new answers' anymore. Ths can be changed to a longer time period.

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 18, 2001.
Venture incubator Idealab said it has laid off some staff due to market conditions, VentureWire reported.

The Pasadena, Calif.-based company has an office in the Back Bay.

The company let go of 10 percent of its 170 employees, across all departments, according to published reports.

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 18, 2001.

Posted at 11:54 a.m. PST Thursday, Jan. 18, 2001

AltaVista cuts 25 percent of staff BY ANDREA ORR

PALO ALTO, Calif. (Reuters) - Internet search company AltaVista Co. Thursday said it laid off 200 employees or about 25 percent of its staff in its latest move to deal with the persistently weak online advertising market on which it depends for revenue.

http://www0.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/internet/docs/86207 6l.htm

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 18, 2001.

Rayovac Corp. announced Thursday it would close its lantern battery and flashlight assembly plant in Wonewoc, eliminating about 240 jobs.

The Madison-based company also said 40 employees would be laid off at its Fennimore plant as part of previously announced plans to restructure.
http://www.pioneerplanet.com/news/wis_docs/027816.htm

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), January 19, 2001.

Blue Island refinery to close, cut 297 jobs

http://chicagotribune.com/news/metro/chicago/article/0,2669,ART- 49309,FF.html

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 19, 2001.

01-19-01

KENT -- Outdoor gear and apparel retailer REI laid off 14 workers at its Kent headquarters Tuesday, officials confirmed yesterday. It is the second time in two months that the company has announced layoffs. In November, 38 employees were given pink slips.

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 19, 2001.

Wonderware Corp. (Irvine, CA) plans to restructure its business and reduce its worldwide workforce by about 20% by the end of January 2001. The reductions will consolidate or eliminate some internal functions and layers of management and eliminate about 150 positions

http://www.hydrocarbononline.com/content/news/article.asp?DocID= {FBA0BD4D-ED5B-11D4-A76F-00D0B7694F32} &Bucket=HomeLatestHeadlines&VNETCOOKIE=NO

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 19, 2001.

Austin-based Multek Inc. is laying off 600 of its roughly 1,100 employees.

The maker of printed circuit boards is scheduled to announce the layoffs Jan. 22. The company occupies a 700,000-square-foot complex at 3300 W. Braker Lane that originally was owned by IBM Corp.

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 19, 2001.

Thursday, January 18, 2001

Honeywell International is expected to cut at least 20,000 jobs following the completion of its acquisition by General Electric Co., according to some analysts.

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 20, 2001.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP)--Computer Sciences Corp. announced Friday it would layoff 201 employees from Mynd Corp. as part of its acquisition of the computer services company.

http://austin360.com/shared/news/technology/ap_story.html/Technology/A P.V0171.AP-CSC-Mynd-Layoff.html

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 20, 2001.

January 16, 2001 SwitchHouse.com may have laid off a third of 50.

January 16, 2001 Looksmart laid off 170 people -- about 30%.

January 16, 2001 SeeItWork.com may have laid off all but 4 employees.

January 16, 2001 Intershop cut one-third of its workforce. Promise.

January 16, 2001 ChannelPoint.com may have laid off around 15%.

January 16, 2001 LivePerson is laying off 60 people -- about 35% of staff.

January 15, 2001 Emusic.com laid off over 60 people -- over one-third of staff

January 15, 2001 AndysGarage.com closing January 31, 2001.

January 15, 2001 Xcelerate.com. 51 employees laid off.

January 15, 2001 Bazillion.com fired all 125 employees.

January 15, 2001 SpotLife.com cutting 25% leaving about 50 employees

January 15, 2001 WealthPort.com laid off 40% of its staff. 11 employees

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 20, 2001.

Online retailer Drugstore.com {DSCM, News, Boards} says it will eliminate 125 jobs and its chief financial officer David Rosten will resign, as the company believes it now has enough money on hand to reach cash flow break even under its current plan.

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 20, 2001.
On Wisconsin..On Wisconsin...........

January 20, 2001 Kohler Company - Closing plant in small town in Wisconsin. Laying off over 180 but may reassign some of them to other jobs.

January 20, 2001 Mirro Company (Rubbermaid) closing plant in small town in Wisconsin. Laying off 330 employees.

This just about 3 or 4 days after Rayovac I believe shut a plant in another small town in Wisconsin laying off over 300 employees in a town of just 800 people.... devastating?

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 21, 2001.

Pen-Tab Industries Inc., which bought Stuart Hall in 1998, is laying off its local work force and leaving its giant warehouse and distribution center on Front Street in northeast Kansas City.

http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2001/01/22/story4.html

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 22, 2001.

DETROIT (AP) -- Auto parts suppliers Delphi Automotive Systems Corp. and Visteon Corp. said Monday they will temporarily lay off a combined 10,300 hourly workers this week, given automakers' production cuts amid softened U.S. vehicle sales.

http://www.newsdirectory.com/go/? r=cur&u=www.newsday.com/ap/financex.htm

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 22, 2001.

Equistar Chemicals LP says it will layoff 125 workers as part of its plan to shut down its polyethylene plant in Port Arthur by Feb. 28. Production units to be closed include a 240 million pounds-per-year high-density polyethylene reactor and a low-density polyethylene reactor with annual capacity of 160 million pounds.

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 23, 2001.
January 21, 2001 ComedyWorld.com laid off 40.

January 21, 2001 Gratis1.com Inc. closed down?

January 21, 2001 AltaVista laid off 200 -- 25%.

January 21, 2001 Drugstore.com will be laying off about 125 people.

January 21, 2001 ArtistDirect may have laid off around 60 people.

January 22, 2001 Lucy.com laid off 60% of 95 employees..

January 22, 2001 VerticalNet may have laid off around 200.

January 22, 2002 GiftCertificates.com fired 100 employees.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 23, 2001.

January 13, 2001 Honeywell International plans to lay off 225 aerospace workers in Arizona by April.

January 16, 2001 Dexter Shoe Company eliminating about 90 jobs.

January 13, 2001 Born Incorporated has laid off 110 employees, including 55 in the Twin Cities.

January 13, 2001 M/A/R/C Group is shutting down its 16-year-old Denton call center, laying off 165 workers and transferring those operations to an existing facility in Killeen. The facility will close in March, company officials said Friday.

January 17, 2001 Reilly Industries Incorporated is laying off 28 workers at its Tibbs Avenue pyridine plant to cut costs. The layoffs affect 12% of the plant's workers and 2 percent of the company's total work force.

January 13, 2001 American Electric Power/Windsor Coal Company said it would lay off 370 workers at two coal mines it is shutting down, the Windsor Coal Company underground mine in West Liberty, W. Va., and the Central Ohio Coal Company surface mine in Cumberland, Ohio, on or about March 15.

January 18, 2001 Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Incorporated laid off about 15% of its work force Friday afternoon. Job cuts were spread across several departments of the Spokane financial service company. Hardest hit were employees at Metwest Mortgage Services, a unit that has been involved in high-interest home loans. Metropolitan said about 90 workers were laid off Friday, although employees were told the number is closer to 100.

January 18, 2001 Yorkton Securities Incorporated confirmed it has laid off 30 of about 650 people it employs across Canada.

January 12, 2001 Brach's Confections Incorporated a candy maker that has operated in Chicago since 1904, said Thursday it will close its plant at 401 N. Cicero and lay off about 1,100 workers. The job cuts will be spread over three years, the Chicago-based company said. Although the plant's payroll declined from more than 2,300 jobs early in the 1990s, it remains one of the biggest employers on the West Side.

January 17, 2001 Newton-Wellesley Hospital became the latest struggling community hospital to announce layoffs and other cutbacks. With losses over the past four years totaling $52 million, the hospital will eliminate 78 jobs and close one of its medical/surgical units on low-volume days.

Jauary 13, 2001 Agillion Incorporated will lay off about half of its 100-person staff.

January 13, 2001 Agiliti Incorporated confirmed that it has shut down part of its software development division and laid off 14 software engineers, or about 9 percent of its work force.

January 13, 2001 Aptimus Incorporated formerly Freeshop.com cut 22 employees last week, leaving it with a staff of 209 in Seattle.

January 17, 2001 Articulent Incorporated has laid off 48 employees, including 13 at its headquarters.

January 17, 2001 Atipa Linux Solutions Incorporated has laid off three-quarters of its staff in recent months. The most recent cutbacks came Friday, when the company laid off nine technicians.

January 13, 2001 Blue292 Incorporated which expanded rapidly last year in anticipation of big things to come, has reversed course by laying off 30 employees - about 35 percent of its staff.

January 13, 2001 Bolder Technologies Corporation has eliminated 89 of its 126 employees, blaming lower-than-expected sales and an inability to raise cash. The reductions represent 71% of it's' work force.

January 12, 2001 Calian Technologies Limited is reducing operations at its money-losing e-business division in a reorganization that should result in 25 job cuts.

January 17, 2001 C-bridge Internet Solutions Incorporated announced plans to lay off 100 employees, or about 14 percent of its work force, in response to gloomier market conditions in the Web consulting business.

January 12, 2001 Crosswalk.com Incorporated, a Chantilly company that provides an Internet portal for Christians, yesterday appointed a new chief executive and laid off 15 people -- 23% of its staff -- as part of a broader restructuring.

January 17, 2001 Drkoop.com Incorporated is closing its Austin office, moving its headquarters to the West Coast and laying off about 45 employees in the Austin area.

January 13, 2001 EMusic.com Incorporated laid off more than a third of its staff (66 employees) and cut three top executives, a move it said will save more than $ 16 million in cash expenses.

January 12, 2001 Fandom Incorporated Sci-fi, fantasy and horror entertainment venture, is expected to lay off 37 people, 20% of its staff.

January 16, 2001 First Access is halving its workforce and closing its New Jersey offices. There were 20 dismissals.

January 18, 2001 Future Link Corporation has eliminated 8% of its workforce across North America and will cut costs to help it edge toward profitability. FutureLink, a founder of the application service provider industry, said most of the cuts to its staff of 660 will be made at its operations in the United States. Eight of the 200 jobs in Calgary will be eliminated.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 23, 2001.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (January 23, 2001 10:49 a.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - Textron Inc. announced plans Tuesday to cut more than 5 percent of its global work force as it restructures its automotive, fastening and industrial divisions.

-- kevin (ktross@mailcity.com), January 23, 2001.
January 23, 2001 J.C. Penney Co. Inc. will close about 50 underperforming department stores as new management tries to repair the troubled retailer.

The company also is shuttering an undisclosed number of Eckerd drugstores, a spokesman said.

January 23, 2001 Loews Theatres will close 112 theatres (about 675 screens). Unknown number of employees.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 23, 2001.

January 23, 2001 GreatEntertaining.com will be closing its online store later this month. Unknown number employees.

January 23, 2001 iam.com closed down. Unknown number employees.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 23, 2001.

January 23, 2001 Converse Industries (sneakers) closing 3 North American plants (sending production to Asia). 1100 employees.

January 23, 2001 Vitt Industries closing. 300 Employees.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 23, 2001.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Less than a week after a major revamp at CNN, newly formed media giant AOL Time Warner is shaking up several other divisions in a move that will result in at least 1,000 more jobs being lost, sources said Tuesday.

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 23, 2001.
January 24, 2001 ExciteAtHome laying off 250.

January 24, 2001 Lucent planning to lay off about 10,000.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 24, 2001.

January 17, 2001 Hutchinson Technology Incorporated. 250 layoffs.

January 17, 2001 IdeaLab let go of 10 percent of its 170 employees, across all departments,

January 13, 2001 iHigh Incorporated laid off 23%. The company eliminated 18 of its 78 positions.

January 12, 2001 InfoUSA Incorporated. 75 more employees, bringing the total number of workers laid off nationally by the company to 400 since last month.

January 16, 2001 Intershop Communications will cut 30 percent of its U.S. work force or 80 positions.

January 18, 2001 Jupiter Media Metrix Incorporated is laying off about 80 employees or 8%.

Januaryt 16, 2001 LanguageWare.net Limited announced that it will begin the orderly wind down of its operations. In addition, it announced the layoff of 17 of its 23 U.S. employees.

January 16, 2001 Mobilia Corporation has shut down and laid off its 30 employees.

January 18, 2001 General Electric Corporation/NCB Co Incorporated. NBC Internet announced a second round of deep job cuts Thursday as it braces for a slowdown in online advertising. The 150 layoffs represent about 30 percent of the company's work force.

January 12, 2001 NEC Corporation/NEC Computers is consolidating two of its Sacramento- based divisions and reportedly laying off more than 100 people.

January 18, 2001 Online Resources Corporation will lay off 9 percent of its staff -- 28 people.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 24, 2001.

January 24, 2001 Gateway - 140 more employees.

January 24, 2001 Textron - 3600 employees.

January 24, 2001 Aol-TimeWarner - 2000 employees.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 24, 2001.

Wednesday, January 24, 2001

Innovex Inc., which makes products that enable the miniaturization of electronic devices, said it will close a factory in Chandler, Ariz., and cut 260 jobs to reduce costs.

Innovex plans to move operations from its Arizona factory to its plants in Maple Plain and Litchfield, Minn., the company said in a news release.

The Maple Plain-based company said 260 jobs would be cut in Arizona, while 60 workers will remain in customer service positions. Innovex plans to hire 120 people in Minnesota.

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 24, 2001.

Thursday, January 25 8:12 AM SGT

Sony Cuts 500 Jobs At San Diego Picture Tube Plant SAN DIEGO (AP)--Sony Electronics Inc. plans to stop manufacturing picture tubes for computer monitors in the United States and will lay off 500 workers.

http://asia.biz.yahoo.com/news/asian_markets/article.html? s=asiafinance/news/010125/asian_markets/dowjones/Sony_Cuts_500_Jobs_At _San_Diego_Picture_Tube_Plant.html

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 24, 2001.

On Wednesday--the eve of announcing its fourth-quarter earnings-- Internet service provider Juno Online Services shaved between 4 percent and 8 percent of its work force.

Juno Chief Executive Charles Ardai said about a dozen jobs out of roughly 325 were eliminated outright; about another dozen consisted of firings that followed routine year-end evaluations.

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 24, 2001.

Commerce One Lays Off 150

1/24/01

A day after forecasting an additional $100 million in sales for 2001, business-to-business software maker Commerce One (CMRC:Nasdaq - news) cut 150 workers, or about 4% of its workforce, a company spokesman confirmed Wednesday.

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 25, 2001.

Jauary 13, 2001 Pingpong.com laid off two-thirds of its 47 employees and gave up plans to develop a smarter search engine for general Internet users.

January 12, 2001 Prometric Inc., a computer-based testing company, has let go 92 of its 3,000 workers worldwide - about 3 percent of its work force.

January 16, 2001 About half of Red Sky Interactive's 85 Houston employees will be laid off.

January 17, 2001 The high-speed Internet provider Rhythms NetConnections Inc. has laid off 390 employees at its headquarters and 450 nationwide or 23% of its work force nationwide.

January 18, 2001 Running Start Incorporated shut down, leaving 64 employees out of work.

January 18, 2001 SpaceWorks Inc. laid off about 70 employees, one-fourth of its staff.

January 18, 2001 TidePoint Corporation a provider of e-commerce services, has laid off about 65 people, two-thirds of its work force, and now plans to become a software company. This week's layoffs follow an earlier round of 24 people dismissed in October. The company, which at one point had planned to grow to 200 employees by late last year, now has a staff of about 24.

January 17, 2001 USinternetworking Incorporated will lay off about 11 percent of its work force - 150 people.

January 13, 2001 Wealthport.com has laid off more than 40% of its work force or 11 affected employees, including two executives.

January 16, 2001 Alloy Wheels International Limited (Canada) shut down and handed layoff notices to hundreds of workers yesterday as the company seeks to restructure under bankruptcy protection. The plant in Barrie, Ont., which employs about 505 workers producing aluminum wheels and is one of the city's largest employers, will be closed temporarily.

January 18, 2001 National Post (formerly The Fi) will cut 160 jobs in its sawmill machinery unit because of low prices in the lumber market.

January 13, 2001 Caraustar Industries Incorporated/Chicago Paperboard factory in River West will close, its 110 employees will be laid off and the potentially valuable 17-acre site on which it sits will be sold.

January 18, 2001 DCT Incorporated is laying off 96 people in the Detroit area.

January 16, 2001 Fab Tech Incorporated laid off 13 percent of its work force. The layoffs involved 27 employees - three technicians and 24 operators.

January 13, 2001 Idexx Laboratories Incorporated/VetConnect Systems which less than three months ago was considering building a multimillion-dollar campus in Portland, has now decided to close a subsidiary company's office in the city. The company plans to close an office on Exchange Street in the next three to four weeks as part of a restructuring of its subsidiary company VetConnect Systems Inc. The closing will mean an undetermined number of layoffs.

January 13, 2001 Mack Molding Company Incorporated has laid off about 30 employees and cut the hours of approximately 25 more at its headquarters plant.

January 16, 2001 Michigan Rubber Products Incorporated told employees this week that 211 people will be laid off indefinitely after work.

January 15, 2002 NACCO Industries Incorporated/Hyster Company. NACCO said two weeks ago that the Danville plant would start laying off workers soon because of slumping demand and would close the plant within the next year and a half, wiping out nearly 700 jobs. In the case of the NACCO plant, where 2,300 others once worked, time simply ran out after years of trying to keep the place going

January 17, 2001 Oneida Limited said it would permanently lay off 135 workers at the end of the month.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 25, 2001.

Grove Worldwide, a manufacturer of aerial work platforms and similar types of cranes: 290 workers laid off Friday.

(Grove already laid off 510 workers in year 2000, out of 1800 at the beginning of that year. Grove is the largest private employer in Franklin County, Pennsylvania.)

Source: Associated Press, 24 Jan 2001

-- Andre Weltman (aweltman@state.pa.us), January 25, 2001.

January 25, 2001 International Truck laid off 500. They had previously laid off a previous 500 in Fall.

January 25, 2001 Whirlpool closing plant with 2600 employees. (This is probably part of earlier announcement that they would be laying off 6000 employees this year).

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 25, 2001.

January 17, 2001 Recreation Equipment Inc. laid off 19. Four of the employees were in the company's dot-com operation while the rest were in merchandising and marketing. The cuts follow 38 in November. Also in November, the company laid off more than 200 workers when it closed its Thaw fleece-clothing manufacturing facility in south Seattle.

January 16, 2001 SCI Systems Incorporated/SCI Brockville Corporatio is laying off 130.

January 16, 2001 Cogeco Incorporated/Cogeco Cable Systems will lay off about 150 full-time employees.

January 18, 2001 Allegheny Technologies Incorporated announced layoffs at Ludlum, where about 150 workers will lose their jobs by the third quarter.

January 17, 2001 Thompson Creek Mining Company. For the second time in a year, says it must lay off dozens of employees because molybdenum prices have sunk too low. Sixty people will remain at the mine near Clayton, which will operate at less than one-third of its capacity. Sixty-five laid-off workers will receive salary and benefits through March 17.

January 17, 2001 Brown & Bigelow Incorporated is dealing its Hoyle playing card unit to Ohio- based United States Playing Card Co., leading to layoffs of about 100 employees.

January 17, 2001 Phar-Mor Incorporated has laid off 22 of its 250 workers at its corporate headquarters.

January 12, 2001 Sarcom Incorporated. At least 100 people have been laid off.

January 12. 2001 Adelphia Business Solutions Incorporated laid off 200

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 25, 2001.

J.C. Penney Co. Inc. said Thursday it will cut 5,300 jobs, or about 2 percent of its work force, and close 47 stores as part of an effort to boost profits at the long-struggling retailer.
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA7JLCQEIC.html

Sara Lee Corp. is laying off 7,000 employees worldwide
The job cuts will affect more than 4 percent of the company's 154,000 employees in 40 countries.
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAPJVVNEIC.html

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), January 25, 2001.

January 26, 2001 Brunswick Corporation. Closing 4 boat making plants. 650 Fired. Looks like the "Recession" has hit recreation. Lookout!

Jauary 26, 2001 Avon closing 44 "Kiosks" at malls. Don't know how many people work at these little kiosks but it may involve 1 or 2 people (or more counting morning and evening "shifts, etc.). Or perhaps these employees can sell door to door (don't think soooooo).

January 26, 2001 Barings (Financial). 700 employees.

January 26, 2001 Sanyo closing line down. Unknown number of employees.

January 26, 2001 Boeing possible closing of plant. Moving work elsewhere. Unknown number of employees.

January 26, 2001 Chrysler. (Think this is in addition to other Chrysler layoffs). 1000 employees.

-- Paul (skypilot99@aol.com), January 26, 2001.

Standard Register will lay off nearly 30 percent of its work force as part of a reorganization...

...after the business forms company suffered four straight quarters of declining earnings...

...layoffs among the work force of 8,700 will be across the board and probably be phased in over a year…the exact locations of the layoffs haven't been determined. Standard Register has operations in 31 states...

Source: Nandotimes/AP, 25 Jan 2001

-- Andre Weltman (aweltman@state.pa.us), January 26, 2001.

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