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lordairgtar wrote:
Quote:Just got word that our company will go to four day work week. Eight hour days.For the same yrly salary?
Grede Foundries, one of the largest employers in Sauk County, is laying off 140 workers.
The company previously cut about 100 jobs in 2008.
http://www.channel3000.com/money/18491367/detail.html
Alcoa Wheel Products in Beloit is shutting its doors starting in March, putting 300 employees out of work, while Hutchinson Technology in Eau Claire is laying off 100 employees, also beginning in March.
http://www.madison.com/tct/news//index.php?ntid=432306
GE Healthcare Lunar Consolidating Facilities
Company To Close Heartland Trail LocationPOSTED: 7:42 pm CST January 15, 2009
MADISON, Wis. — GE Healthcare Lunar said Thursday it’s closing its building on Heartland Trail in Madison and moving to its other Madison location on Ohmeda Drive.
GE Healthcare Lunar said it will be moving employees and production to the company’s Ohmeda Drive facility as well as to GE’s Tower Avenue facility in Milwaukee.
About 150 people worked at the Heartland Trail location. There is no word on if there will be any layoffs, WISC-TV reported.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5irmWZmMlki7isG4T9NmoHzSlAMJwD95OBHGO0
Circuit City to liquidate remaining US stores
Unfortunately it was just a matter of time for them.
General Electric Co said on Friday its GE Capital unit is cutting jobs as part of an effort to save about $2 billion this year, but declined comment on a report that as many as 11,000 positions would be eliminated.
http://www.channel3000.com/money/18502624/detail.html
MILWAUKEE — GE Healthcare Limited announced it will cut about 150 unionized jobs in Milwaukee and Waukesha counties by March.
The company said it will also eliminate jobs in Wisconsin extending beyond those represented by labor unions, but it didn’t give details.
Company spokesman Brian McKaig said “the impact will be less than 10 percent” of its Wisconsin work force, which totaled 6,900 workers as of September.
Kohler Co. Lays Off 188 More Employees
Company spokeswoman Kristine Cristina said on Monday the affected workers were let go Friday and were part of the company’s global power group and corporate operations.
The layoffs included 112 production employees and 76 administrative workers.
The publisher of the Wisconsin State Journal and The Capital Times in Madison says it will cut 12 positions.
I actually went to a speednetworking thing tonight and talked to a guy from the cap-times that mentioned it.
He said the Ad dollars are way down.
There will be many newspapers across the country going under or going to just online editions. It’s too bad money has gotten as tight as it has.
http://www.madison.com/tct/news//index.php?ntid=433877
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MADD to lay off 2 of 3 state staffersA whole bunch more layoffs reported today for WI:
http://www.madison.com/tct/news/stories/433868The biggest layoff on the list that came out Tuesday involves 367 employees at electronics retailer Circuit City. It announced last week it was closing all of its U.S. stores, including seven stores in Wisconsin, by March 21 or no later than two weeks after that date.
Circuit City has 47 employees at the east side Madison store on East Springs Drive and 54 employees at the west side Madison store on Commerce Drive.
Other Circuit City stores are in Greenfield with 56 employees, Racine with 49 employees, Brookfield with 55 employees, Grand Chute with 49 employees and Ashwaubenon with 57 employees.
The Reinhart Retail Group, headquartered in La Crosse, is either selling or closing operations or trimming staff at nine facilities in Wisconsin, affecting 363 workers at two hardware stores, one farm supply store, two groceries, one home center, one warehouse and two corporate offices.
The layoffs include 65 employees at the Rainbow Home Center in Rice Lake, 117 employees at the County Market in Ladysmith, 38 employees at the IGA in Cornell, 50 employees at the Ace Hardware store in Ladysmith, and 54 employees at the Ace Hardware store in La Crosse.
These facilities are for sale, according to letters filed with the state, so if sold the layoffs will take place between Jan. 29 and Feb. 27, but if they aren’t sold, the layoffs will come March 16-29.
The Reinhart facilities shutting down include an appliance warehouse in Chippewa Falls, affecting 13 employees, and an FS store in Eau Claire, affecting 11 employees. Layoffs will take place March 16-29.
A corporate real estate office in Eau Claire will cut six employees, and the corporate headquarters in La Crosse will cut nine employees. Layoffs will be between March 16 and 29.
The Cub Foods closings involve 319 employees, including 70 at the Verona Road store in Madison, 97 at the east side store in Green Bay, 81 at the west side store in Green Bay and 71 at the Beloit store.
The layoffs are all scheduled for March 13.
Bookstore chain Dickens Books Ltd. in Milwaukee will close four Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops affecting a total of 65 employees. These include 20 in Shorewood, 12 in Brookfield, 12 in Milwaukee and 15 in Mequon, as well as six employees at corporate headquarters. The layoffs will be by March 31 or within two weeks thereafter.
Seats Inc., a maker of seating products in Richland
http://www.channel3000.com/money/18534238/detail.html
MADISON, Wis. — Clear Channel Communications said it’s cutting about 9 percent of its workforce.
That’s translating to significant layoffs for Madison’s Clear Channel Broadcasting.
The radio station chain includes WIBA AM and FM as well as Star Country.
Officials said they won’t comment on specific layoffs. However, WISC-TV has learned the layoffs include some management positions.
Harley to cut 1,100 jobs as 4Q profit falls
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090123/ap_on_bi_ge/earns_harley_davidson….The iconic motorcycle maker said it will consolidate two engine and transmission plants in Milwaukee into its facility in Menomonee Falls, Wis. It will shrink its paint and frame operations in its York, Pa., plant and close its distribution facility in Franklin, Wis., whose duties will be handled by a third party……
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