ATS "Up to the Minute Layoffs"

I saw this thread title and thought: "So ATS is giving some mods the pink slip? That's a first! They finally priced themselves out of a job."



Seriously, good thread. And I'm sure many dozens of small businesses aren't even among the list.

Originally posted by jsobecky

I saw this thread title and thought: "So ATS is giving some mods the pink slip? That's a first! They finally priced themselves out of a job."

Seriously, good thread. And I'm sure many dozens of small businesses aren't even among the list.

You are SO right. I can count 5 businesses in my area in the last month that have closed their doors...

Small business employers will tell you - there is another area of impact that doesn't get near the ink as an actual layoff - cuts in hours. Many low and moderate income people and families work hourly and generally somewhere under 40 hours a week. Those hours - for many - are getting cut and cut hard.

A worker who normally counted on 35 to 40 hours a week - most of the time with no benefits to speak of - is now hoping and praying they get in 30 or even 20 hours a week. They are the walking wounded in this economy...and they are dropping to their knees.

Minimum wage goes up in July. If there isn't more money to go around...we can do the math as to what that means for the hourly worker.

Your thread is appreciated and a noble effort. Those numbers - those people - matter.

Peace

Stars for all you!!!

Thanks for taking the time to notice how the MSM is missing the real stories...

Steuben Glass to lay off 20 union workers
www.stargazette.com...

Capital One Lays Off 60 in Virginia
www.employmentspectator.com...

Snyder Industries lays off 10 people
www.noosoop.com...

Alcoa Plans More Job Cuts
www.kwqc.com...

Leading tech companies lay off staff
computerworld.co.nz...

Alcoa lays off nearly 50 employees in Fullerton
www.ocregister.com...

YUSA to lay off 200
www.recordherald.com...

Pointer Brand Lays Off 15
www.tricities.com...

Accent Marketing Services call center to lay off 163.
www.kansascity.com...

City lays off six as job talks fail
Police positions at risk as well
www.telegram.com...

City leaders only hint at reassignment plans after 150 police layoffs
toledoblade.com

Cedar Rapids plant to close, lay off 100 workers
www.desmoinesregister.com...

DISD Tells 600 Teachers To Get Better Or Get Fired
cbs11tv.com...

Cessna may cut 2,800 more jobs
www.kansas.com...

Cash-strapped Bronx Zoo lays off animals
www.theday.com...

Hundreds of parents protest NH teacher layoffs
www.wcax.com...

NPR Cuts 13 In Second Layoff Round; Imposes Unpaid Leave
www.paidcontent.org...

Breaking - New Castle County/Wilmington Paramedics To Be Laid Off Effective May 6th
delawareway.blogspot.com...

Apple lays off black shirts
www.kumaran.biz...

Cartersville's TrinityRail to shut doors, lay off 659
romenews-tribune.com

Central Moloney lays off 40 from its Pine Bluff transformer plant
www.kfsm.com...

Springfield school board votes to lay off 26 workers
www.springfieldnewssun.com...

Clearwater Paper to temporarily lay off 50
www.kpax.com...

Morning News of Springdale lays off 9 in newsroom, plans furloughs and cuts newspaper size
www.kfsm.com...

Telkom Kenya lays off 597 workers
www.capitalfm.co.ke...

Bridgewater-Raynham could layoff an additional 11 teachers
www.wickedlocal.com...

Medtronic lays off 240 workers
www.pressdemocrat.com...

Alcoa Davenport Works
www.qctimes.com...

Central Moloney Lays Off 40 in Pine Bluff
www.arkansasbusiness.com...

WR Grace Lays Off Undisclosed Number
www.employmentspectator.com...

Morning News of Springdale Lays Off Nine
directoryearth.us...

Oerlikon Solar Lays Off 60, Shortens Work Hours
www.semiconductor.net...

Apple not paying Steve Jobs for plane, lays off 1,600 retail employees
www.bizjournals.com...

New Roc chamber lays off executive director
lohud.com...

L.L. Bean to lay off more than 200 employees
www.google.com...

Ssangyong preparing to lay off nearly 40% of workforce by end of June?
www.autoblog.com...

Sumitomo to lay off 79 more workers
www.glasgowdailytimes.com...

[edit on 4/24/2009 by Hx3_1963]

Timken Aerospace lays off NH workers
www.wcax.com...

City Of Ontario Lays Off Parking Enforcement Officer
www.northcentralohio.com...

CAT Lays Off More in Mossville
www.week.com...

130 of 150 Toledo police layoffs to come from patrol ranks
18 specialized units to be cut or eliminated
toledoblade.com

Black River lays off staff/Seven full-time teachers among the reductions
www.times-gazette.com...

Schulte Roth & Zabel Lays Off 20 Lawyers; Defers Start Dates
www.jdjournal.com...

Carrier Corp. Lays Off Another 140 People Friday
www.ketknbc.com...

Layoffs Expected at Seattle Public Schools
www.seattlecourant.com...

ACS gives out second-round layoff notices
www.heraldbulletin.com...

[edit on 4/24/2009 by Hx3_1963]

LAYOFF DAILY
Fri 4-24-2009

Carrier Corporation -140
Scientific American Magazine -21
Holland, MI Public School System -30
XL Foods (Canada) -200
Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) Research and Development Group -103
St. Bernard, OH School District -10
Chicago Tribune lays off their recession reporter
Peabody, MA School District -7
International Textile Group -100
Medtronic, Inc (NYSE:MDT) -240
WHYY-FM, Philadelphia PA -17
Embarq Corp (NYSE:EQ) -51
Sumitomo Electric Wiring Systems -79
L.L. Bean -200
Citigroup (NYSE:C) Private Equity Fundraising Group -45
Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC) pink slips i-banking unit -150
Hawthorn, IL School District -23
Convergys Call Center -240
Clearwater Paper Corp. temporary layoffs (NYSE:CLW) -50
Tejon Ranch Corp (NYSE:TRC) -9
Springfield, OH City Schools -26
Lucia Mar, CA Unified School District -56
Bridgewater-Raynham, MA School District -11
TrinityRail North American Freight Car -659
Wauseon, OH School Board -8
National Public Radio -13
Rialto, CA Unified School District -93
Apple, Inc. Retail Stores -1,600
enton, MI School District -14
Cessna -2,800
Columbus McKinnon Corp. -105
Anderson, IN Community Schools -70
YUSA Corporation -200
Wentville, MO GM Plant permanent layoffs -300
Steuben Glass -20

TOTAL - 7,670+

Mass layoffs in Germany could spark social unrest
www.upi.com...
Unemployed French workers kidnapping their bosses as labor protests spiral out of control
uk.reuters.com...
Roubini predicts double digit U.S. unemployment by Q4'09
www.forbes.com...?ref=layoffdaily.com

The threat of no job and the bird, swine, human flu....
What a day ~ What a day ~

Originally posted by spinkyboo

LAYOFF DAILY
Fri 4-24-2009

St. Bernard, OH School District -10
Chicago Tribune lays off their recession reporter
Peabody, MA School District -7

The threat of no job and the bird, swine, human flu....
What a day ~ What a day ~

Does it mean that the recession is over when the Chicago Tribune laid off its recession reporter, coz there is not much to report on? The traders interpreted it that way and the Dow climbed 120 points.

spink, you better start manipulating your list. I'm an unemployed Armageddon reporter -- youknowwhatimean.

Gardner Museum Lays Off Staff
bostonhospitalityindustry.blogspot.com...

Heifer says it will trim 20% of its jobs in U.S.
www2.arkansasonline.com...

More mass layoffs in Tennessee
www.bizjournals.com...

Cat follows through with 103 layoffs
www.pjstar.com...

Hearst Newspapers Lay Off 44 In State
www.courant.com...

Norfolk Southern lays off 58 workers
www.altoonamirror.com...

NC denim maker cuts 100 jobs amid falling demand
www.wral.com...

Bacardi cuts 77 jobs at Puerto Rico rum plant
www.etaiwannews.com...

Employers Must Lay Off Foreign Workers First - Dr Subramaniam
www.bernama.com...

Bishop Museum lays off 19
www.starbulletin.com...

FWCS could lay off up to 137 teachers
news-sentinal.com

State of Arizona to layoff 5,500 school employees - Layoff information
www.layoffinfos.com...

Chart: Mass layoff events by month since Jan. 2001
www.reliableplant.com...

[edit on 4/25/2009 by Hx3_1963]

An interesting note from the editor of LAYOFF DAILY -

Note from the editor: education layoffs accelerate, pass 16,000 in 2 weeks

As state and local goverments attempt to cover the massive revenue shortfalls due to the recession, it looks like education is getting slashed especially hard.

A quick tally of reported education-related cuts mumbers over 16,000 in the last two weeks alone. This is in addition to the following money-saving proposals I've seen floated in the same period: - School closures - Increased classroom sizes - Movement to 4-day class weeks - Elimination of teacher's aides - Suspension of statewide performance exams - Elimination of sports and music programs As our educational system continues to fall behind in the world rankings, we're dying a slow death from a thousand tiny cuts.

When Norway and South Korea are beating us on the scientific literacy front and the Czechs are running circles around our students in math, it's time to wake up. No offense, of course, to the fine folks in those countries.
We have to do better than this.

The Cranky Editor

Here's a good lay off!

newsbusters.org...

Radical left-wing cartoonist Ted Rall [0] -- who reveled in dismissing American servicemen as "idiots" [0] -- was recently laid off [1]. Editor & Publisher reported the story in an April 22 article:

NEW YORK Chalk up one more wildly talented cartoonist to be victimized by the economy.

“I’ve been laid off,” reads the headline on the blog of cartoonist Ted Rall, president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Rall, an editorial cartoonist for Universal Press Syndicate, has served as editor of acquisitions and development at United Media for the past two years.

Always a silver lining! Karma is such a great thing. I bet this socialist wishes that we still had a healthy capitalist economy.

ATTENTION: Thread on hold due to Flu outbreak...


2nd line...




[edit on 4/25/2009 by Hx3_1963]

Swine flu epidemic fear grows, world on alert
www.reuters.com...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Governments around the world rushed on Sunday to check the spread of a new type of swine flu that has killed up to 81 people in Mexico and infected around a dozen in the United States.

Mexicans huddled in their homes while U.S. hospitals tracked patients with flu symptoms and other countries imposed health checks at airports as the World Health Organization warned the virus had the potential to become a pandemic.

The epidemic has snowballed into a monster headache for Mexico, already grappling with a violent drug war and economic slowdown, and has quickly become one of the biggest global health scares in years.

More at Link...

WHO's "war room" in high gear after flu outbreaks
uk.reuters.com...

[edit on 4/26/2009 by Hx3_1963]