Election over let the layoff start: Boeing to cut 30%

Boeing Co announced a major restructuring of its defense division on Wednesday that will cut 30 percent of management jobs from 2010 levels, close facilities in California and consolidate several business units to cut costs.

[link to www.chicagotribune.com]




Vestas Seeks 20 Percent Stake Sale, Cuts 3,000 More Jobs


Vestas Wind Systems A/S (VWS) is seeking to sell a stake of as much as 20 percent and said it’s reducing headcount by 3,000 to raise the staff cuts by the biggest wind turbine maker to almost a third over two years.

[link to www.businessweek.com]


Hawker Beechcraft announces more layoffs

The company says 240 employees will lose their jobs with the closing of Hawker Beechcraft Services facilities in Little Rock, Ark.; Mesa, Ariz.; and San Antonio, Texas.

It also plans to cut a total of 170 jobs at its Wichita headquarters and at its completion center in Little Rock. More than half of the jobs being elimianted are in Arkansas, however the planemaker refused to release an exact number.

[link to www.kwch.com]

Research in Motion cuts jobs at U.S. headquarters in Irving

Research in Motion Ltd., the maker of BlackBerry smartphones, laid off about 200 people at its U.S. headquarters in Irving on Wednesday, according to a source close to the company who did not want to be named.
Canada-based RIM spokesman Nick Manning confirmed that layoffs occurred in Irving but would not specify how many. RIM employed about 700 people there.

[link to www.dallasnews.com]

U.S. Cellular drops Chicago, cuts 640 local jobs


The move will result in 980 job cuts at U.S. Cellular, with 640 in the Chicago area, according to a spokeswoman. The cuts are slightly under 12 percent of the approximately 8,400 total employees U.S. Cellular had at the end of the third quarter.

[link to biztimes.com]

SRA International to lay off 222 in Arlington
Fairfax-based SRA International Inc. has given notice to the the Virginia Workforce Network that it will lay off 222 people in Arlington Jan. 1, 2013.

[link to www.bizjournals.com]

Hyatt Regency Tampa issues layoff notice
The Hyatt Regency Tampa has posted a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification affecting 222 employees.

[link to www.bizjournals.com]

More layoffs announced at Anniston weapons incinerator
The company that operated Anniston’s chemical weapons incinerator has 50 fewer workers today as part of continuing efforts to close down the facility.

According to a Wednesday press release from Westinghouse Anniston, the contractor responsible for shutting down the facility, the employee drawdown today will affect 50 workers at the Anniston Chemical Agent Disposal Facility. The facility reached another closure milestone and so no longer needs the labor.

[link to www.annistonstar.com]


The Axe Falls: Bristol-Myers To Cut Nearly 500 Jobs
And the parade of layoffs continues. The latest drugmaker to shed some workers is Bristol-Myers Squibb, which plans to eliminate 479 sales reps and related jobs now that Otsuka Pharmaceuticals will assume responsbility for marketing the Abilify antipsycotic in the US, a spokeswoman tells us. The job cuts were disclosed in a state notice.

[link to www.pharmalot.com]


I'll keep updating as it comes in.

You DO realize that these people own homes, buy groceries, cars and other shit & support their local economies right?

Do you "think" (and I use the word hesitantly where you are concerned) that 100% of LM's business is government contracts?

The economic & fiscal ignorance that you're spouting is what you should concern yourself with...

Keep on hatin' on successful people AC, that's the path to success...

Where do you think the money to pay their unemployment benefits is going to come from??? The Magic Free Shit Fairy???

Your ride and your sign

Umatilla Chemical Depot is yet another defense contractor (welfare recipient) company.

Highly doubtful that all Lockheed is for this government as they have or rather had high sales abroad.

Ignore AC 116, bluebird. He has been trolling this thread bad.

This is no surprise. This is what happens when we elect Democrats or a pretend Conservative Republican candidate.

Vote Libertarian or Constitutional party if there is a next time instead of who the people on TV tell you to vote for.

Small Government, Low Taxes, Low Spending, Minimal regulation, minimal government involvement in anything, let the free markets work. Get Big Brother and big government out of our lives. No more Department of Education, FEMA, IRS, and any other illegal unconstitutional department of fat cats living high off of the tax dollars.

I do jobs at some of these companies, especially Boeing, and those of you saying, "blah blah blah, it's not Obama's fault", yes it is. These managers ARE actually laying people off because Obama won the election and expecting a huge loss in profit because of the ridiculous employer requirements for health care and tax hikes.

I hope they don't plan on giving the laid off losers 99 fucking weeks again!

I do jobs at some of these companies, especially Boeing, and those of you saying, "blah blah blah, it's not Obama's fault", yes it is. These managers ARE actually laying people off because Obama won the election and expecting a huge loss in profit because of the ridiculous employer requirements for health care and tax hikes.

And this is what the American people voted for? We are now a take it country...no longer A make it country. And we will go over the fiscal cliff. SO DOOM ON

Wait til the next batch of numbers come out, unemployment will go down.

It's trickle down poorness.

My company will be cutting about 20% of their workforce now. In the next 6 months or so, expect to see about 5000 people being let go from a prominent engineering consultant.

When the infrastructure companies go under this kind of stress, expect the infrastructure to do the same.

All you bleeding heart liberals are about to get what you asked for......nothing.

Lockheed is laying off thousands
maybe

the US can just all get on the socialist government dole and sit around and smoke pot

Learn to read. Most of these layoffs are due to defense cuts. Good god you're goddamn stupid.

Lockheed is laying off thousands
maybe

the US can just all get on the socialist government dole and sit around and smoke pot