And so it begins.....layoffs

This should be pinned. Here's a partial list of layoffs since the election.

Welcome to the new normal, have a nice day.


• Energizer -The St. Louis-based company said Thursday that it expects to shed about 1,500 employees.

• Exide Technologies - laying off 150 workers, effective no later than March 31.

• Westinghouse - has reduced its workforce by another 50 employees.

• Research in Motion Limited - laid off about 200 people at its U.S. headquarters in Irving on Wednesday.

• Lightyear Network Solutions - More than one dozen employees at a Pikeville company lost their jobs this week.

• Providence Journal - The Providence Journal Co. laid off 23 full-time workers Wednesday.

• Hawker Beechcraft - The company says 240 employees will lose their jobs.

• Boeing (30% of their management staff) - said Wednesday it plans to employ 30% fewer executives.

• CVPH Medical Center -CVPH Medical Center has handed pink slips to 17 employees.

• US Cellular - 980 job cuts at U.S. Cellular, with 640 in the Chicago area.

• Momentive Performance Materials - About 150 workers laid off.

• Rocketdyne - 100 employees at Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne.

• Brake Parts -plans to lay off 75 workers starting in late December…The layoffs are expected to start Dec. 28 and continue in the first quarter of 2013

• Vestas Wind Systems - said it’s reducing headcount by 3,000.

• Husqvarna - plans to cut about 600 jobs.

• Center for Hospice New York - lay off as many as 40 employees.

• Bristol-Meyers - almost 480 layoffs.

• OCE North America - will lay off 135 workers.

• Darden Restaurants - is looking to limit workers to 28 hours per week. A full time employee that is required to have health insurance (lest the employer pay a fine.


• West Ridge Mine - In its statement, UtahAmerican Energy blames the Obama administration for instituting policies that will close down “204 American coal-fired power plants by 2014″ and for drastically reducing the market for coal.


• United Blood Services Gulf - will lay off approximately 10 percent of its workforce.

Here are some of the business closings that were announced in just the past two days:

Caterpillar Inc. will close its plant in Owatonna Minn.
Mount Pleasant’s Albrecht Sentry Foods
The Target store at Manassas Mall Va.
Millennium Academy in Wake Forest NC
Target Closing Kissimmee FL Location
The Andover Gift Shop in Andover MA
Grand Union Family Markets Closing Storrs Location CT
Movie Scene Milford Location NH
Update: TE Connectivity Closing Greensboro Plant – 620 Layoffs Expected
Gomer’s Fried Chicken in South Kansas City
Kmart in Homer Glen
Fresh Market on Pine Street in Burlington
AGC Glass North America to permanently close its Blue Ridge Plant in Kingsport Tenn.
The Target store at Platte and Academy in Colorado Springs
The Roses store on Reynold Road in Winston-Salem NC
Meanders Kitchen losing its West Seattle location at 6032 California Ave
Bost Harley-Davidson at 46th Avenue North and Delaware Ave. in West Nashville TN
Townsend Booksellers in Oakland
The Kmart store in Parkway Plaza off University Drive in Durham NC – 79 Jobs Lost

[link to www.dailyjobcuts.com]