Corning slashes 3,500 jobs

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High-tech glass and ceramics maker Corning Inc. - which makes glass for LCD screens and monitors in addition to fiber-optic technology - announced Tuesday it will cut 3,500 jobs, or 13% of the company’s workforce, by the end of 2009.Source: CNNMoneyPosted in Manufacturing, US   Tagged: Corning, Corning layoff, Corning layoffs    http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=layoffblog.com&blog=5255291&post=1261&subd=layoffblog&ref=&feed=1

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Specialty chemicals company Clariant AG said Tuesday it is cutting 1,000 jobs this year.Clariant said the job cuts are the result of a sharp decline in customer demand for its products in the textile, leather, automotive and construction industries.Source: International Herald TribunePosted in Chemical, Manufacturing, worldwide   Tagged: Clariant, Clariant layoff    http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=layoffblog.com&blog=5255291&post=1258&subd=layoffblog&ref=&feed=1

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Ashland Inc. (NYSE: ASH) said Tuesday it lost $119 million in its first fiscal quarter, and plans to cut its work force by 1,300 jobs, freeze wages and adopt a two-week furlough program.The chemical company blamed the loss in the first quarter on a severance charge, writedown and the acquisition of Hercules Inc. It said [...]http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=layoffblog.com&blog=5255291&post=1256&subd=layoffblog&ref=&feed=1

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Royal Philips Electronics plans to cut 6,000 jobs. Those cuts could include layoffs at a Latham[,NY] operation.“I know that cuts across all sectors and all geographies,” said Ian Race, a spokesman for Holland-based Philips.Philips has 500 employees in Latham.Source: The Business Review (Albany)Posted in Electronics, US, worldwide   Tagged: Philips, Philips layoffs    http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=layoffblog.com&blog=5255291&post=1241&subd=layoffblog&ref=&feed=1

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With a second successive quarterly loss on the cards for ING Group NV, the company plans to layoff 7,000 employees, and appoint Jan Hommen - the present chairman of the ING board, and the former chief financial officer of Philips Electronics - as its new CEO in the place of the current chief executive Michel [...]http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=layoffblog.com&blog=5255291&post=1239&subd=layoffblog&ref=&feed=1

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Sprint Nextel Corp. today said that it will lay off about 8,000 workers by April within “all levels” of the company.The carrier also said it will suspend the 401(k) matches for workers for 2009 and extend a freeze on annual salary increases started in 2008 through 2009. A tuition-reimbursement program was also suspended.Source: ComputerworldPosted in [...]http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=layoffblog.com&blog=5255291&post=1237&subd=layoffblog&ref=&feed=1

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Caterpillar, seeing sales for its bulldozers and other heavy equipment sinking in a worldwide economic mire, said Monday that its business was “whipsawed” during the fourth quarter and that it would eliminate 20,000 jobs in the face of a “very tough” 2009.Caterpillar announced the staff reductions as part of its fourth quarter earnings report, released [...]http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=layoffblog.com&blog=5255291&post=1235&subd=layoffblog&ref=&feed=1

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Pfizer announced Monday that it has signed a deal to acquire the smaller drugmaker Wyeth for $68 billion, and tens of thousands of job cuts will follow.Pfizer spokesman Ray Kerins said that two waves of job cuts would occur in 2009. In the first, Pfizer said it would cut 10% of its 81,900 staff - [...]http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=layoffblog.com&blog=5255291&post=1233&subd=layoffblog&ref=&feed=1

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According to CNNMoney: “Home Depot, the No. 1 home improvement retailer, announced Monday that it is shutting down its high-end EXPO business and shrinking its support staff, with both moves resulting in a reduction of 7,000 jobs.”Posted in Retail, US   Tagged: Home Depot layoff    http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=layoffblog.com&blog=5255291&post=1231&subd=layoffblog&ref=&feed=1

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According to Reuters: “A U.S. senator has asked Microsoft Corp about its plans to slash up to 5,000 jobs, urging the world’s biggest software company to preserve the jobs of Americans ahead of foreigners working on visas.““The letter asked Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer to provide a breakdown of the jobs to be eliminated, and [...]http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=layoffblog.com&blog=5255291&post=1228&subd=layoffblog&ref=&feed=1

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According to CNNMoney: “Home Depot, the No. 1 home improvement retailer, announced Monday that it is shutting down its high-end EXPO business and shrinking its support staff, with both moves resulting in a reduction of 7,000 jobs.”Posted in Retail, US***Tagged: Home Depot layoff*** http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=layoffblog.com&blog=5255291&post=1231&subd=layoffblog&ref=&feed=1

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Idiot, why are you creating a thread for each company. you could have mentioned Home Depot, Catterpillar and pfizer in the same thread.

Before creating a thread, you should think that you are eating space and band width of a site which is run by a non - profitable organization.

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Idiot, why are you creating a thread for each company. you could have mentioned Home Depot, Catterpillar and pfizer in the same thread.

Before creating a thread, you should think that you are eating space and band width of a site which is run by a non - profitable organization.

I think you may be venting your anger on some spam bot. If you didnt notice the name of the blogger is LayoffBlog which is also the name of a website with this information.

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I think you may be venting your anger on some spam bot. If you didnt notice the name of the blogger is LayoffBlog which is also the name of a website with this information.

Good catch. I missed it. Thanks for pointing.