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Who is on is a weekly survey of organizations to announce (or rumoring) the dismissal of the week ending 10-23-09. This is not only valuable for job seekers, but for business analysts, business strategists, traders, vendors, investment analysts, financial advisors, and others who are interested in companies that are contracting.
Announced layoffs and rumors this week were in government, health, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, Finance / Banking, and publishing.
Inclusion in this list does not mean the whole industry has been reduced since many of the same area appeared in the article "Who is Hiring, published 10/19/09. Interestingly, while federal procurement is increasing, a number of governments State and local governments have continued to see cuts in the last month.
Health organizations were laying off, as Valley Mental Health, Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Health System Cook County, Oak Forest Hospital, Pfizer, Carestream Health, Medical Navilyst Eli Lilly, Smith doctor.
Publishers continued to remove jobs such as Time, The New York Times, The Charlotte Observer, and McGraw-Hill announced layoffs, while rumors circulated around Conde Nast on the units face job cuts.
Job seekers: You may want to seek greener pastures of these companies.
Organizations or rumors of layoffs announced week ending 10/23/09:
Alstom Transport, Hornell NY (500)
Electrolux, Webster City IA (850)
Valley Mental Health, Salt Lake City UT (up 125)
Time Inc., New York (approx 600)
Sun Microsystems, National (3000)
International Paper, National (1,600)
Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Evansville and Mount Vernon IN (115)
Cook County Health and Hospital System, Chicago, IL (335)
Iowa State (793)
Oak Forest Hospital, Oak Forest IL (200)
Emerson / Schneider National, Bridgeton MO (330)
NCR Corporation, National (2200)
Modine Manufacturing Company, Harrodsburg KY (110)
Nautilus, Independence VA (173)
Expedia, Tacoma, WA (200?)
New Page Corp., Whiting, WI (100?)
Pilkington Automotive Glass Plant (NSG Group), Clinton, MI (130)
Sallie Mae, Nacional (1-2K?)
Massachusetts (726)
Varian Medical Systems, Palo Alto, CA (150)
Pfizer, Overland Park, Kansas (200)
Regions Financial Corp., Birmingham AL (1700 YTD)
Sullivan County, NY (100)
Lexmark International Inc., Lexington KY (825)
Mohawk Industries, Waynesboro VA (120)
Jakks Pacific Inc., Malibu CA (100 +)
Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago, IL (1000 +)
Missouri Department of Resources Natural (Division of State Parks) (100 +)
BAE Systems, West Manchester PA (130)
Chicago, IL (220 jobs being eliminated)
New York Times New York (100)
Workforce Solutions East Texas (50)
Standard Chartered Bank, Miami, FL (72)
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, National (57)
Health Forum Inc, Youngstown, OH (52)
Carestream Health Inc., Windsor, CO (70)
Iowa State (791)
Kronos Inc. (Stromburg), (70 Lake Mary FL)
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach FL (21)
General Shale, Spring City TN (19)
Navilyst Medical, Glens Falls NY (51)
Sacramento County, CA (76)
Pilkington Automotive, Clinton, MI (130)
LHI Enterprises Inc, Hartland, WI (80)
Georgia Pacific, Fordyce AR (300)
Extreme Networks, Santa Clara, CA (70)
Lockheed Martin, Archbald PA (50)
Goss International, Dover, NH (unknown)
Eli Lilly, National (unknown)
Semiconductiors Freescale, Austin, Texas and National (unknown)
Shuttle America, Honolulu HI (74)
CNH Global, International (10-12%)
Child Protective Services, Sacramento, CA (76)
St. Joseph County, in (54)
Estes Express Lines, Knoxville TN (unknown)
21st Century Insurance, Vestal NY (54)
State of Pennsylvania (unknown)
Mothers Against Drunk Driving, MADD National (unknown)
The Charlotte Observer, Charlotte NC (unknown)
Arizona Department of Public Safety (unknown)
Smith Medical, Waukesha WI (104)
Wausau Paper, Appleton WI (55)
Tree Top Inc., Rialto, CA (75)
Assurant Specialty Property, Santa Ana and Tustin CA (74)
The McGraw-Hill Cos., Woodland Hills CA (85)
West Marine Products, Watsonville, CA (325)
Curtiss-Wright Controls Integrated Detection of Long Beach, CA (81)
Kavlico, Moorpark CA (169)
Baker Hughes Incorporated, Houston, TX (62)
Fluor Enterprises, Inc., Sugar Land TX (617)
Redcats USA, Universal City TX (490)
Big Stick, National Sports Services, Las Vegas, NV (unknown)
Formtech Industries, Minerva, OH (68)
Coca-Cola Enterprises, Havre de Grace MD (50)
Faurecia Automotive Seating Inc, Walton KY (68)
Farmers Group Inc, Vestal NY (54)
The Really Cool Food Company LLC, Syosset NY (78)
Matrx (Midmark Corporation), Orchard Park NY (87)
Source: Google, Twitter, AllPinkSlips.com, Telonu.com, TechCrunch.com, CoStar.com, Gawker, Screwedd.com
Readers – If you know of employers announced plans for significant layoffs or reduction a large number of employers employee, please comment below to add to this list.
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Phil Rosenberg is President of reCareered and runs Career Change Central, recently named one of Linkedin’s top groups that job seekers must join. An active blogger about career transition, Phil’s articles have been republished by Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, CIO, FastCompany and dozens of job/recruiting sites.
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