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APPLIANCES
Maytag Corp- Maytag will lay off
workers at its Newton Laundry Products facility in Iowa. Impact: 120 Employees (excite.com)
AUTOMOTIVE
Ford Motor Company and Mazda Motor
Company- Ford and Mazda will lay off 31% of their assembly plant in Flat Rock, MI. Impact: 945 Employees (Associated Press)
General Motors Corp. - GM will reduce production of Saturn's
Wilmington, DE assembly. About 20% of the unionized workforce will be laid off. Impact: 490 Employees (Reuters)
BUSINESS SERVICES
Sears Canada Incorporated -
Sears said online ordering had cut into its catalogue business in Atlantic, Canada enough to force the company to shut its 800-person Halifax operation. This move will cost 100 jobs. Impact:
101-500 Employees (Montreal Gazette)
COMPUTER HARDWARE
Seagate Technology Inc - Seagate
will close two of its three disk-drive manufacturing plants. Employees will be laid off at facilities in Anaheim, CA, and Mexicali, Mexico. Impact: 1,200 Employees (CNET News)
COMPUTER SOFTWARE
J.D Edwards & CO - The
Denver-based software vendor will cut 15% of its staff in order to turn a profit. The e-business applications provider also announced it will reduce office space and automate the company's purchasing
operations as an effort to reduce costs. Impact: 800 Employees (ComputerWorld)
FOODS
Pillsbury Co. - The food company stopped
production at its McMinnville, OR plant and will permanently close the facility which makes frozen bread products and sweet goods, on July 21. The Oregon facility will be sold. The closing is
unrelated to Pillsbury's restructuring in March that led to 750 job cuts, including 200 corporate headquarters jobs in downtown Minneapolis. Impact: 51-100 Employees (Star Tribune)
FORESTRY
Sierra Forest Products/Sequoia Forest
Industries - 105 employees were told Thursday that the 50-year-old sawmill in Dinuba, will close in four months. The Mill's shutdown will be in phases, with the first batch of about 50 employees laid off
in 75 days. The remainder will be let go in 120 days. Impact: 51-100 Employees (Fresno Bee)
GOVERNMENT
Department of the Army/Fort Monroe -
About 77 civilian workers at the Army's Fort Monroe will lose their federal jobs because the base has decided to contract out some work to private companies. The employees, including carpenters,
supply technicians, plumbers and groundskeepers, will be let go in June, pending the outcome of any appeals they may file. Impact: 51-100 Employees (Associated Press)
HEALTHCARE
Alterra Healthcare Corporation
- Alterra laid off 33 employees at its headquarters in Wauwatosa, WI. The employees were involved in the development and construction of new assisted-living facilities. Impact: 51-100
Employees (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Queen Elizabeth II (QEII) Health Sciences Centre - Just a day after the
QEII Health Sciences Centre called opposition claims of 300 job losses wild exaggeration, the numbers are proving painfully true. The first round of cuts will see 47 positions in management and
nonunion support staff terminated or reclassified as a result of the province's April 11 budget. The QEII plans to cut 315 positions overall by year's end if the province approves. Impact:
101-500 Employees (Halifax Daily News)
HIGH TECHNOLOGY
Trilogy Software
Incorporated/CarOrder.com Inc. - Internet car seller CarOder.com Inc has laid off 100 workers, nearly one-third of its workforce, as it struggles with competition in the online auto-sales industry.
Most of the layoffs are in the company's call center. Impact: 51-100 Employees (Associated Press)
MANUFACTURING
Federal-Mogul Corporation -
Federal-Mogul officials have announced they are moving 300 jobs from its plant in Michigan to Mexico, with some jobs being eliminated by late summer and the move expected to be complete in 18 months.
Employees whose local jobs are eliminated will be given special consideration if they wish to transfer to another Federal-Mogul location. Impact: 101-500 Employees (Associated Press)
Phoenix International Limited Incorporated - Banking-software developer
Phoenix International Ltd. Inc., absorbing its fifth consecutive quarterly loss, dismissed 55 workers to help cut costs and offset its flagging fortunes. The cutback -- a 17.5 percent reduction in its
local work force -- is expected to save $3.5 million annually. Impact: 51-100 Employees (Orlando Sentinel)
Unilever Canada - The Canadian unit of global food giant Unilever NV
will combine its three largest consumer businesses--Lever Pond's, Lipton and Good Humor-Breyers--into a single operating company that will be called Unilever Canada. As a result, about 125 jobs will be
lost over a two-year integration period. In the short-term, the company will combine Lever Pond's and Lipton sales forces and will consolidate company-wide financial, administrative and human resources
operations. Eventually, these functions from Good Humor-Breyers will be integrated as well. Impact: 101-500 Employees (Financial Post)
REAL ESTATE
Sunterra Corp - The time-share
realtor, with vacation locations in Florida, South Carolina, Colorado, Texas and other states, will cut hundreds of workers at the company's Orlando, FL headquarters. Even with the cost-saving cuts,
Sunterra execs don't predict a rosy future for the firm. Impact: 930 Employees (The New York Times)
RETAIL
Sunbeam Corporation - Sunbeam Corp. said it
will close its remaining stores in the United States and Canada and lay off about 60 people in an attempt to lower costs. The maker of Oster blenders and Coleman camping equipment, which had 39 outlets
at the end of 1999, expects to close most of the stores by June, the company reported. Sunbeam had 12,200 employees at the end of 1999. The stores, which operate under the Sunbeam, Oster and Camp Coleman
names, sell excess stock or products that Sunbeam no longer makes. Impact: 51-100 Employees (Financial Post)
Amway Corporation - Amway Corp. announced sweeping job cuts, part of a
major restructuring to compete in the faceless world of the Internet. The direct-sales giant said it will cut nearly 11% of its global work force, or 1,300 jobs, including an undisclosed number of
positions at its Nutrilite division in Buena Park. Amway said about 900 jobs will be cut at its world headquarters in Ada, MI. A total of 260 jobs will be cut overseas with the remainder of the cuts
coming from Amway's California Nutrilite Operations in Buena Park and Lakeview, which together have 750 employees. The cuts, which will take place over the next 15 months, will involve mostly management
and salaried employees. Impact: Over 1000 Employees (Los Angeles Times)
Recreational Equipment Incorporate - Outdoor retailing giant
Recreational Equipment Inc. will close its main subsidiary in Seattle this year, laying off 200 workers and exporting production of key clothing items to Mexico. The planned closure of Thaw, the
Seattle-based subsidiary, was prompted largely by the United States' adoption in 1993 of the North American Free Trade Agreement. The workers will be paid a monthly bonus to remain on the job until the
fall production run ends in November. Workers who stay till the end will receive a severance bonus, and REI and the federal government will pay for retraining, continued health care and extended
unemployment compensation. Impact: 101-500 Employees (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
SunBeam Corporation - Sunbeam Corp. said it will close its remaining
stores in the United States and Canada and lay off about 60 people in an attempt to lower costs. Impact: 51-100 Employees (Financial Post)
STEEL
The LTV Corporation - LTV Corp. will close
the LTV Steel Mining Co., based in Hoyt Lakes, MN. The first 120 workers will be laid off this weekend and the remaining employees will be released over the next year. Impact: 1,400 Employees (Associated
Press)
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