A few of the News Stories from the past week:
- Gateway to Slash Work Force, Close Some Operations - Reuters (Aug 28, 2001)
- Gateway cuts jobs, sees loss - CNN (Aug 28, 2001)
- Seed Producer Cuts Jobs, Closes Plant - AP (Aug 28, 2001)
- Payless: Going Out of Business - AP (Aug 28, 2001)
- In these tough times, employers ask prospects to jump through hoops
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Wall Street Journal/MSNBC (Aug 28, 2001)
- Honeywell to Lay Off About 690 - AP (Aug 28, 2001)
- As Japan Technology Woes Deepen, Toshiba to Cut 19,000 - NY Times
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- 250 to be laid off at Camas paper mill - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
(Aug 28, 2001)
- Deere Plan for Revamping Will Cut Nearly 2,000 Jobs - NY Times
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- Deere Cutting 1,975 Jobs - AP (Aug 27, 2001)
- Otis Elevator to Lay Off 350 - AP (Aug 27, 2001)
- Georgia-Pacific Cutting 250 Jobs - AP (Aug 27, 2001)
- New Grads Find Jobs Placed on Hold - AP (Aug 27, 2001)
- Northrop Grumman to Cut 500 Jobs - AP (Aug 27, 2001)
- Northrop to Cut Jobs - Reuters (Aug 27, 2001)
- Corporate axe fells 50,000 - The Guardian (UK). (Aug 27, 2001)
- Toshiba Slashes 17,000 Jobs - AP (Aug 27, 2001)
- Toshiba to Cut Jobs, Faces Record Loss - Reuters (Aug 27, 2001)
- Deere to Cut More Jobs, Shut Down Plants - Reuters (Aug 27, 2001)
- Layoff survivors face their own set of stresses - Detroit Free Press
(Aug 27, 2001)
- Toshiba cuts 18,800 jobs - BBC (Aug 27, 2001)
- Toshiba to Cut 20,000 Jobs Globally - Reuters (Aug 25, 2001)
- Toshiba 'to axe 20,000 jobs' - BBC (Aug 25, 2001)
- Toshiba to Cut 20,000 Jobs Globally - Media - Reuters (Aug 25, 2001)
- Journalists Feel Pain in Downturn - Reuters (Aug 25, 2001)
- Reports: Toshiba, Hitachi Cut Jobs - AP (Aug 24, 2001)
- DirecTV Begins 5-Week Round of Layoffs - AP (Aug 24, 2001)
- Hughes Electronics to Cut Jobs - AP (Aug 24, 2001)
- Skies safe from layoffs despite losses - CNN (Aug 24, 2001)
- Deere Laying Off 81 Workers in Ill. - AP (Aug 24, 2001)
- Lucent fires 290 more at Massachusetts sites - Boston Globe (Aug 24, 2001)
- Ford Plant Shutdowns to Continue - AP (Aug 24, 2001)
- Lucent Maps Out Route to Profit by the End of Next Year - NY Times
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- Marquee Firm in California Cuts Lawyers - NY Times (registration req'd) (Aug 24, 2001)
- AOL Finishes Layoffs in Virginia - Washington Post (Aug 24, 2001)
- Slump Causes Layoffs at Law Firm - Washington Post (Aug 24, 2001)
- Lucent Cuts 2,200 Jobs - AP (Aug 23, 2001)
- E-Biz Provider FairMarket Lays Off 35 Percent - ECommerce Times (Aug 23, 2001)
- ICQ fires 28% of workforce - Jerusalem Post (Aug 23, 2001)
- Equant to Slash 3,000 Jobs - Reuters (Aug 23, 2001)
- Finnish Telecom to Lay Off 1,000 - AP (Aug 23, 2001)
- More Signs of Trouble for Ireland's Technology Boom - NY Times (registration req'd) (Aug 23, 2001)
- Tellabs to cut 1,000 jobs, shelve Chelmsford offices plan - Boston Globe (Aug 23, 2001)
Do I look like I give a fuck?
- Lucent layoffs touch another 350 in Illinois - Chicago Tribune (Aug 23, 2001)
- Tellabs pulls out of Ireland and cuts 1,000 jobs - Financial Times (Aug 22, 2001)
- Yahoo cuts 50 jobs from new Launch Media unit - Reuters/Yahoo! Finance (Aug 22, 2001)
- Bank One Eliminates 100 More Jobs - AP (Aug 22, 2001)
- Tellabs to Cut 1,000 Jobs - Reuters (Aug 22, 2001)
- Baltimore cuts jobs as losses grow - BBC (Aug 22, 2001)
- AOL to Lay Off 1,700 More Workers - Washington Post (Aug 22, 2001)