Every once and a while we have the good fortune here at Layoff Watch to announce some good news for the workers of the world. Today is one of those rare and pleasant occasions. The county of Luzerne was planning to layoff about 106 workers in order to balance their budgets. After a meeting this [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 29, 2011
It looks like bad news is coming for the officers of the Pennsylvania State Police. They are looking down the barrel of some serious law enforcement layoffs in the fast approaching budget for the New Year. The governor of the state, Mr. Tom Corbett, has already made it plain that these cuts could be extensive, [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 21, 2011
The city of Scranton, P.A. has been ordered to pay its police and firefighters unions the millions of dollars in back taxes that they are owed. Thanks to a Pennsylvania State Supreme Court ruling that was handed down on Wednesday of this week the city of Scranton must pay for the police and fire unions [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 15, 2011
British owned defense contractor BAE Systems’ North American subsidiary will be laying off 50 employees at their West Manchester Township plant in York County, Pa. Half of the layoffs will affect union members. The other half consists of salaried employees, according to Kelly Golden. “The company’s leaders appreciate the hard work and dedication of the [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Tyco Electronics Ltd. Will lay off 248 of the 700 employees at it’s manufacturing plant in Shakopee, Minnesota. In a move similar to that of Electrolux, who announced plans to shift 400 jobs out of Webster City, Iowa over to a new manufacturing site in Mexico, Tyco will also be moving the majority of its [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 17, 2010
As the Letterkenny Arms Depot, near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania winds down production on a five-year contract for some 20,000 U.S. Army High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (better known to most people as Humvees), contractors at the facility are preparing for layoffs. The army expects to cut 69 positions by January of 2011. Depot commander Col. Cheri [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Since January 2006, Blue Cross memberships in Northeastern Pennsylvania have dipped around seven percent. The company recently announced that that particular branch will layoff 75 of its employees, or nine percent of its workforce, by year’s end. The company’s spokesman, Anthony Matrisciano, said that Blue Cross was in the midst of deciding who will go. [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 19, 2010
A round of mass layoffs, totaling nearly 150 jobs, are being blamed on the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq. On October 29th, The Tobyhanna Army Depot in Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania will say goodbye to 150 employees out of the more than 4,000 that are employed at the depot on October 29. According to Charles Gibson, [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 30, 2010
DRS Laurel Technologies, a defense contractor which operates a plant in Richland Township near Johnstown, PA, announced 50 layoffs today. These layoffs come on the heels of four previous rounds of job cuts since February of 2009. Since that time about 350 people out of a workforce of 900 have lost their jobs. Senior Vice [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 9, 2010
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania mayor Linda Thompson announced yesterday that the city would have to lay off an unspecified number of employees in order to balance its budget, which currently has a $4.3 deficit. The city’s fire department will bear the brunt of the layoffs. One of Harrisburg’s four fire stations will be closed and an unknown [...]
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