Layoffs Du Jour
77....Stratus Technologies
Stratus focuses on service: Stratus job cuts felt in Maynard
By Greg Turner / News Business Writer
Friday, January 21, 2005
MAYNARD -- The parent company of Stratus Technologies Inc. said it is slashing about 20 percent of its worldwide work force, with 77 job losses coming locally.
The maker of so-called fault-tolerant computer servers announced a cost-cutting move this week that will result in a reduction of 180 jobs out of its total staff of 903.
Stratus has headquarters in Luxembourg but most of its operations, including more than 500 employees, are in Maynard.
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1000....MBNA
MBNA Net Rises 9.3%; 1,000 Job Cuts, Buyback Planned
Bloomberg.com - Jan 20 10:48 AM
U.S. Jan. 20 (Bloomberg) -- MBNA Corp., the world's largest independent charge-card company, said earnings rose 9.3 percent as credit quality improved. The company also said it will incur as much as $350 million in costs to shed about 1,000 jobs.
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62....Microsoft
Friday, January 21, 2005
Microsoft cuts 62 software jobs
By TODD BISHOP
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
Microsoft Corp. has cut 62 software-testing jobs from one of its Windows groups, attributing the decision to a shift toward automated testing in parts of the operation.
The elimination of the software test-engineering positions from the Windows Core Operating System Division was effective late last week.
It is the second Microsoft job reduction in recent months attributed to efforts to shift away from manual testing. Separately, in September, Microsoft cited similar reasons when it cut 93 positions involved in testing and user education in its Windows Server division.
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35....Weyerhaeuser
Layoffs Planned At Weyerhaeuser Mill In Foster
KOIN News 6 - 1 hour, 35 minutes ago
SWEET HOME, Ore. -- Thirty-five employees of the Weyerhaeuser plywood mill in Foster are being laid off. That's about one-fifth of the workforce there.
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3,000+ Buffalo NY
BUFFALO, N.Y. Failure to agree on a sales tax hike will result in thousands of pink slips going out today to Buffalo-area county workers.
That's according to Erie County Executive Joel Giambra.
Giambra says at layoff notices must go out today for at least three-thousand county workers -- about one-third of the county's workforce -- because local lawmakers can't agree to raise the sales tax.
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51....Florida City Gas
Florida City Gas to dismiss 51 employees
BizJournals - 2 hours, 28 minutes ago
A recently purchased natural gas utility in Hialeah is to lay off 51 workers from March 20 to April 2.
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214....Ingersoll-Rand
Bryan pump maker to close, idle 214
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Jan 21 3:31 AM
Ingersoll-Rand said Thursday it plans to halt production at its 75-year-old manufacturing plant in Bryan, Ohio, a move that will put 214 employees out on the street.
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