Job and Layoff Report for Last Day of 2009
As December 2009 comes to a close we saw no mass layoffs of 50 or more from the same location. For three days our research input reflected only city, county, and state layoffs only. Refile News saw this as a positive sign that layoffs were slowing down but the economy is not adding new jobs.
The number of U.S. workers filing new applications for jobless benefits fell last week to the lowest level in about 17 months. Americans hope 2010 will be better than 2009.
Pfizer plans to lay off an additional 95 workers in March, according to documents filed with the state of New York.
Forty-six employees at Russell Stover Candies were laid off the third week of December from the Abilene plant, according to company officials today. Candy is a seasonal cyclical industry.
Layoffs at the New York Times effected approximately 26 people. Only 74 employees accepted buyout offers while the target number was 100. News Cycle calculates that over 15,000 newspaper employees have lost their jobs in 2009.
General Motors put 150 hourly workers on layoff, bringing to 298 the total number of workers on layoff from the Tonawanda plant near Buffalo New York.
The city of Cleveland sent out 260 layoff notices just before Christmas, mostly to younger employees who work for the police and fire departments, as well as EMS.
In Fairfield California, Ball Corporation announced that 40 to 50 of its 180 employees face layoffs in the coming year because of a decline in demand for 12-ounce cans.
Just days before Christmas, dozens of people at Trane in Central Kentucky found out they’ll be losing their jobs in the New Year. Trane is laying off 140 hourly workers at its facility on Mercer Road, in Lexington. The facility commercial air conditioning products.
Arrow Trucking shut down, stranding driver all over the country. It is estimated that 1400 people lost their jobs. Arrow Trucking Co. ex-employees filed a federal lawsuit against the company on Monday, alleging that it violated a federal law that governs mass layoffs and business closures. Here is a news report:
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AM General Corp. is laying off 250 workers from the northern Indiana Mishawaka factory where it builds Humvees because the U.S. military is buying fewer of the vehicles. About 70 workers won’t return when the plant reopens on Jan. 4, 2010, and 180 workers are expected to be laid off during January, said Don Taber, unit chairman for United Auto Workers Local 5.
We previously reported that International Paper would close a Franklin Virginia facility, putting 1100 people out of work. The first round of layoffs will take place just after Christmas.
Affiliated Computer Services, which does outsourced business process work for other companies, laid off 181 workers at its southwest Houston call center last week, according to a filing with the Texas Workforce Commission.
Workers are losing their jobs at the New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc., or NUMMI, auto plant in Fremont California. In a ripple effect, at least 1,000 jobs — primarily in the Bay Area and Central Valley — are expected to be erased because of cutbacks planned by NUMMI suppliers.
An article dated December 24 claims the former Toyota plant known as NUMMI will leave California with no automobile manufacturing plants.
Since its founding in 1984, the first-of-a-kind joint venture between Toyota and General Motors Corp. provided jobs for many suppliers in California. Now many of those jobs and the future of supporting companies is in jeopardy.
The Jackson Rancheria casino in California is cutting 113 jobs just after Christmas. Most are middle management jobs, paying up to $70,000 a year. Six percent of the workforce is being slashed, after the casino lost 10 percent in profits during the last year.
Aetna said it expects to have about 34,300 workers once all job cuts are completed. A date hasn’t been set to notify employees in the next round of cuts. The health insurer in November said it had cut 1.8 percent of its work force and planned a similar reduction at the end of the first quarter of 2010.
More layoffs at U.S. Fidelis in Wentzville Missouri are planned but the company did not say how many people would be effected. The company once had 1000 employees. CEO Chris Riley says the company still has more than 200 employees , but he was not specific about how many people lost their jobs.
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Recreating the jobs lost during a downturn doesn’t necessarily happen fast. It took nearly four years to regain all the jobs lost during the 2001 recession, when unemployment peaked at 6.3 percent, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank in Washington, D.C.
Michigan’s unemployment rate dropped slightly. State officials said the jobless rate dropped to 14.7 percent in November from a national high of 15.1 percent in October. It had reached 15.3 percent in September, the highest rate since early 1983.
Rhode Island’s unemployment rate dropped in November to 12.7 percent from 12.9 in October.
Florida’s unemployment rate continued to rise last month, up two-tenths of a point to 11.5 percent, the state labor department said Friday. It was the highest rate since May 1975.
Florida figures are adjusted to eliminate seasonal tourist-related industry changes.
California’s jobless rate fell to 12.3 percent in November, down from October’s 12.5 percent.
Nevada and South Carolina also estimate unemployment rates at 12.3 percent.
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