Mike: Greetings to all this fine Wednesday.   Today’s economic reports deal more with housing  than employment, but as goes housing, so goes employment for many. So we”l be watching closely MBA Purchase Applications  and the  Existing Home Sales  reports for signs of any improvement. Update: MBA Purchase Applications  and Existing Home Sales  fell last week, which is not a good […]

Continue reading about February 25 – Nortel disconnects another 3,200 – Cummins to dump 985 – Dow Corning cuts 800 – RU’s Evraz cuts 2,000 – JN’s Advantest deletes 1,200 – Zales to close 115 stores – Buyout offers to 42,000 at Ford – Mass layoffs soared in January – Home sales fall sharply – Will your job benefit from the stimulus?

Mike: A fine Tuesday greeting to all. First of all I’d like to make a correction to a layoff notice that was listed on this site February 6:  – I wanted to bring to your attention that your posting of Sparton Corporation laying off 1,000 people is incorrect.  Actually, they laid off approximately 6% of […]

Continue reading about February 24 – Hundreds of CA teachers sent home – Less water in CA could mean 40,000 less jobs – Microsoft says keep the cash (due to bad publicity) – Manitowoc Crane cuts 450 – Itronix lays offs 380 – Milliken & Company cuts 650 – UK: crime up, so are cop layoffs – Lonmin to axe 5,500 in SA – Updates: Spansion cuts 3000/Micron cuts 2000 – Pacific Brands drops 1850 – Record drop in U.S. home prices

Mike: A fine Tuesday greeting to all. First of all I’d like to make a correction to a layoff notice that was listed on this site February 6:  – I wanted to bring to your attention that your posting of Sparton Corporation laying off 1,000 people is incorrect.  Actually, they laid off approximately 6% of […]

Continue reading about February 24 – Hundreds of CA teachers sent home – Less water in CA could mean 40,000 less jobs – Microsoft says keep the cash (due to bad publicity) – Manitowoc Crane cuts 450 – Itronix lays offs 380 – Milliken & Company cuts 650 – UK: crime up, so are cop layoffs – Lonmin to axe 5,500 in SA – Updates: Spansion cuts 3000/Micron cuts 2000 – Record drop in U.S. home prices