Because of a weak economy and cash-strapped donors, Focus on the Family said it is eliminating 202 jobs, the deepest cuts in the 32-year history of the Colorado Springs-based Christian nonprofit. The ministry laid off 149 workers, and cut another 53 vacant positions.
http://www.gazette.com/articles/focus_43586___article.html/lays_eliminationg.html
Up to 25 States Could Lose 3,000 Ford-Related Jobs
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122698476859136711.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
ROYAL OAK — Beaumont Hospitals is eliminating 500 jobs across its three-hospital system as part of a plan to reverse $22 million in operating losses anticipated this year and improve its financial standing by $60 million in 2009, hospital officials said Monday.
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081118/BIZ/811180351/1001
The following story seems more aimed at the parent’s coming to grips with a change in income. Kids adjust better than most parents realize, but it’s the parents that have the more difficult time of accepting reality.
What you can do with your kids is tell them that for a while things are going to be different. “In some families, that means you may need to say there are not going to be so many Christmas presents under the tree. In others, it may mean that you have some serious changes to make. It may mean that mom or dad is going to be home more, and that in itself is a big change.”
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081118/LIFESTYLE06/811180338
Of course Michigan, in particular, is taking the brunt of the auto related job losses. Help, psycological and economical are goin to be vital to those most affected.
“We find people not in Michigan don’t really understand how dramatically this is affecting people,” Dobies said, adding that often those who have lost their jobs can’t easily pick up and move to work elsewhere because they often can’t sell their homes.
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0805829.htm
Oregon’s job market plunged in October, raising the unemployment rate to 7.3 percent — the highest rate in more than four years.
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20081118/NEWS/811180336/1001
Virgin Mobile USA Inc. (NYSE: VM) laid off 23 New Jersey workers as part of broader cost-cutting steps that eliminated 10 percent of the firm’s work force, according to a company spokeswoman.
http://www.njbiz.com/article.asp?aID=76644
NY historic site lays off 4, shortens ’09 season
http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=9370342&nav=4QcS
Portage steel mill lays off 110 workers
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-in-betasteel,0,3187103.story
Greenwood, SC textile plant lays off 300
http://www.columbian.com/article/20081118/APF/811181213
D Magazine and People Newspapers, which are majority owned by Wick Allison, laid off 19 percent of their combined staffs Friday and Monday, the latest casualties of declining advertising revenue in the media world.
SIDNEY, N.Y. (AP) – Two manufacturers in Delaware County have laid off employees.
The Oneonta Star reports that Amphenol Corp., which produces electronic and electrical interconnect devices in Sidney, has laid off 202 employees.
Meanwhile, and MeadWestvaco says it laid off 56 workers.
http://www.fox44.net/Global/story.asp?S=9360870
Finch Paper LLC, a paper mill in Glens Falls, has laid off 44 workers over the past two weeks in response to a souring economy.
http://www.bizjournals.com/albany/stories/2008/11/17/daily16.html
Museum of the Rockies to lay off five
http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/articles/2008/11/18/news/50museum.txt
H-P Extends Holiday Time To Cut Costs
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122696203290335127.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
In January, Comair’s fleet is expected to be about 117 planes, down from the current 120 and down from 164 planes in 2005. It has also laid off about 330 pilots and flight attendants due to recent cuts, and plans to lay off another 120 pilots because of Delta’s latest schedule cutbacks scheduled for January.
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20081118/BIZ01/811190309
Forbes Restructures, Cuts 43
http://www.foliomag.com/2008/forbes-restructures-cuts-43
Unfortunately, job loss can lead to violence:
SAN JOSE – A Silicon Valley engineer accused of killing three colleagues in a Santa Clara office building last week is expected to be arraigned Wednesday.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20081118-0548-ca-bay-officeparkslayings-arraignment.html
Here are a few more afternoon announcements:
US Gypsum plant to lay off 133 in Jacksonville
http://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/stories/2008/11/17/daily12.html
Nine people have been laid off at American Lawyer Media (now called Incisive Media). The cuts are all in the company’sreal estate group—about 15% of the total staff—including both editorial and sales positions. The company already laid off 42 people earlier this year.
http://gawker.com/5092178/american-lawyer-media-falls-under-layoff-ax
Stillwater Mining cuts 370 workers, suspends East Boulder operations
http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/11/17/news/state/16-stillwatermine.txt
Utah has just experienced a net loss in jobs for the first time this year, according to new data from the state Department of Workforce Services.
http://www.kcpw.org/article/7023
Fertilizer producer United Industries Corp. will close its plant in Sylacauga on Jan. 31, leaving 77 full-time employees without jobs. It is also closing its administrative office in Birmingham, eliminating 30 additional jobs.
http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081118/APF/811181382&template=apart
Jarden Process Solutions, a plastics manufacturing company, announced it is closing it’s Fort Smith plant. That puts 93 local workers out of a job.
http://www.kfsm.com/Global/story.asp?S=9373603
Apparel maker Hanesbrands Inc. said Tuesday it will cut about 400 jobs and close a yarn production plant to save money, citing the difficult economic climate.
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D94HLEAO0.htm
Ace Packaging said Monday the continued slowdown in the auto industry will force it to close its facilities in Frenchtown and Brownstown townships by mid-January, costing the area about 140 jobs.
http://www.monroenews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081118/NEWS01/111189978/-1/NEWS
Hopefully they hadn’t hired any workers before building the plant:
Sterling Heights supplier Getrag Transmission Manufacturing LLC put an unfinished plant in Tipton, Ind., into bankruptcy Monday, saying it was forced to do so after Chrysler LLC terminated a contract with the supplier.
http://www.freep.com/article/20081118/BUSINESS01/811180308/1014
Better than shutting down permanently:
According to the Cresco Times-Plain Dealer, Featherlite Trailers is halting operations for six weeks during the upcoming holiday season.
http://www.kttc.com/Global/story.asp?S=9373043&nav=menu1348_2
State officials and Holcim (US) Inc. representatives met for more than two hours Monday to discuss the cement company’s planned closing of its plant near Dundee, but it appears unlikely that the session will alter the plant’s fate.
http://www.monroenews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081118/NEWS01/111189972/-1/NEWS
NEW YORK (AP) _ Shares of Famous Dave’s of America Inc. dropped to a new low Tuesday after the restaurant chain said it is closing three restaurants in Atlanta and terminated two leases for restaurants it had planned to open elsewhere.
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/apwire/a21063452b4d757eb78f2570f4e004bf.htm
Jayco Inc. announced Monday that it is closing the Starcraft plant in Topeka in LaGrange County, costing about 240 people their jobs.
http://www.southbendtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081118/Biz/811180423/1013/Biz
MONROE, MICH. La-Z-Boy Inc. said late Tuesday that it will lay off 850 workers as it reported a widening loss for its fiscal second quarter, hurt by a deteriorating economy and historically low customer confidence.
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D94HLFT00.htm
LANARK, Ill. — Lanark Mayor Kevin Barnes feels the pain of the 130 workers who will lose their jobs Jan. 9 when the Medallion Cabinets plant closes — shutting down the largest employer in this town of 1,500 residents.
http://www.qctimes.com/articles/2008/11/17/news/business/doc49222e31d572d895434036.txt
Siemens plans to close its Columbus distribution center as soon as June, a move that will cost the city 118 jobs.
Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation announced Saturday that the mill will cease production Nov. 22 through the end of the year.
http://www.newsherald.com/articles/cuts_69711___article.html/editorial_painful.html
MeadWestvaco Corp. announced Monday that it will close a packaging plant in Grover, cutting 120 jobs at the Cleveland County factory.
http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews+articleid_2810905.html
