We probably don't even need this post anymore, since the employment picture is so rosy. But, what the heck, I'll do it for old times sake.
Acer - North Sioux City, SD and Irving, CA - 115 jobs lost (on top of 100 previously announced)Another round of job cuts announced for North Sioux City, SD.
According to Gateway Spokeswoman, Lisa Emard, Acer has decided to eliminate an additional 115 employees from it's North Sioux City and Irvine, California plants. Emard says the affected workers are involved in Gateway's Direct Sales Unit, that's soon set to close. She says they were all given 60 days notice and a severance package.
The news comes just three weeks after Acer announced it was cutting 100 other jobs also involved with the company's Direct Sales Unit. Emard says Acer has decided to "focus exclusively on it's proven indirect sales model, transitioning Gateway's Direct Sales to it's valued channel partners."
According to Emard, Acer has also decided to sell the North Sioux City property and then lease back the space needed to continue operations. The company still has customer service, engineering and administrative operations in North Sioux.
http://www.kmeg.com/global/story.asp?s=8757049The cuts are a continuation of the Sun Times Media Group -- the parent of Merrillville-based Post-Tribune -- attempt to slash expenditures by $50 million. The Sun Times Media Group includes the Chicago Sun-Times, Pioneer Press, SouthtownStar, Naperville Sun, Post-Tribune and newspapers in Joliet, Aurora, Elgin and Waukegan.
In January, the company cut an unknown number of Post-Tribune union and non-union positions. Sources familiar with the situation placed the number of job cuts to near 20.
While the Post-Tribune is cutting positions, the Tinley Park-based SouthtownStar is advertising for five editorial positions, said Davis, who also serves as its publisher.
The non-union paper cut six newsroom positions, including three long-time managers, as of Friday. At least four of the six losing their jobs had been in editorial positions with the Star before it was merged into the Southtown in 2007.
http://www.nwi.com/articles/2008/07/29/business/business/doc9222a6e57d7f51bd86257494006c5a2d.txthreveport, LA (KSLA) - Suppliers that make consoles, seats and dash boards for the GM plant in Shreveport say job cuts are inevitable. This just one day after GM announced it's getting rid of it's entire second shift cutting some 700 jobs at the Shreveport plant.
Debbie Carr, the Human Resources manager at Ai, said a meeting was set for Tuesday afternoon where workers would be told who would stay and who would be let go. They currently employ 181 people.
At Grupo Antolin, officials there say they employ about 40 people, 16 on the second shift. They too expect job cuts but they said more details would have to come from their corporate offices.
The same story could be told from most of the company's that supply to GM.
At Jackson Cooper Trucking, Ron Smith says they are going to wait before deciding who would be let go and who would stay. Smith says surely some field workers and drivers may be let go but that would be based on how many trucks will come off the line at GM after the second shift is cut. "Everybody's a little nervous, a little concerned about it and I think it's more the uncertainty than anything else."
Meanwhile, two drivers for Tango trucking company say Tuesday afternoon they were called in to a safety meeting where almost 60 people were told September 29th would be their last day.
http://www.ksla.com/Global/story.asp?S=8756668&nav=0RY5Gerards Bakery, which provided artisan baked goods to restaurants, unexpectedly ceased operations on July 24, leaving some 100 employees unemployed.
"It's hard work, this business of being unemployed," said Petra Chavez of the Department of Labor and Employment's Layoff Assistance Program. "This informational session on July 30 will address all of the problems associated with that job loss. It will provide workers with important information to help them get back on their feet with a plan of action."
http://www.9news.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=96689&catid=346Elsevier Inc., a publisher of science and health publications, plans on cutting 77 jobs at its Orlando customer service department beginning in September.
The New York-based company's layoff, which will run through June 2009, is part of a relocation plan to move customer service operations to other offices. According to state documents, the cuts will be coming from the company's office at 6277 Sea Harbor Drive near SeaWorld.
Elsevier has two Orlando offices, one in Tampa, 22 others across the U.S. and 41 additional worldwide.
http://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/stories/2008/07/28/daily18.htmlMonday's layoffs at Bill's Casino are not a huge surprise to anyone who has been following the area's economic downtown, but numbers and predictions mean little until people lose their jobs.
The layoffs affected approximately 28 table-game dealers at Bill's, leaving the venue Monday afternoon strangely subdued in what usually is a busy time for Stateline casinos. Bill's, Harrah's and Harveys Lake Tahoe are owned by Harrah's Entertainment.
John Packer, spokesman for the venues, said the layoffs resulted from a restructure of the business. What that really means is the casino wasn't making enough money to sustain current operations.
As Packer noted, people are hanging onto their money these days, and the South Lake Tahoe leisure industry is struggling to offset the losses. Packer was reluctant to speculate how the Bill's layoffs might affect Harrah's and Harveys, but it's a pretty good bet the South Shore gaming industry will see radical changes in the next few years.
http://www.tahoedailytribune.com/article/20080730/OPINION/853322126/1059/NEWS&parentprofile=-1But the revolving doors at MySpace are moving fast. TechCrunch reported Tuesday that the company was looking to lay off as much as 5 percent of its workforce, which chief operating officer Amit Kapur confirmed to the blog later in the day. But the exec classified the move as "performance driven," meaning that fired employees would be replaced and that MySpace was actually looking to hire as many as 300 new employees.
The hiring announcement comes so close on the heels of the layoff reports that conspiracy theorists might speculate MySpace put out a release about fairly recent executive picks to temper any bad press. But when asked, a MySpace representative classified the hires as "very recent...or are locked and loaded to start soon," so it's more likely that personnel changes just happened to fall into the rumor mill at an opportune time.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10002318-36.htmlREEDSBURG, Wis. - Employees of an automotive supplier in Reedsburg are facing another round of layoffs.
Grede Foundries says it will lay off 90 employees on one of five production lines. The plant supplies castings mainly for automotive suspension systems. The foundry employs about 800 people.
Vice President Todd Sternaman says the majority of Grede's customers "have experienced deteriorating sales this year," which has forced them to significantly reduce their orders.
Grede also laid off about 80 employees in April.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-wi-foundrylayoffs,0,6367538.story
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