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Aluminium firm Alcoa is to close its Swansea factory by the end of March, leading to hundreds of job losses.
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Londonâs subway network virtually shut down when 2,300 maintenance workers walked off their jobs in what they said would be a three-day strike over pensions and security.
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Unions are to hold an emergency meeting with workers at the doomed Browns Lane Jaguar plant in Coventry. Parent company Ford plans to stop car production at the plant, with 400 voluntary redundancies and 425 jobs moved to the Castle Bromwich factory.
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Swiss firm STMicroelectronics is to close three factories in the US and Morocco, putting 4,000 jobs at risk.
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Photography equipment maker Kodak is to cut 600 jobs in the UK and close a factory in Nottinghamshire. About 350 jobs will be lost following the closure of its manufacturing plant at Annesley, while 250 posts will be shed at its site in Harrow, Middlesex.
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Colgate-Palmolive Co. (CL.N: Quote, Profile, Research) will cut about 4,400 jobs, or 12 percent of its work force, and close nearly a third of its factories under a restructuring
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Downriver economic development officials geared up Thursday to deal with the latest blow to area manufacturing workers, the closing of the Frito-Lay plant in Allen Park with its loss of nearly 400 jobs.
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Chicago-area factories shed jobs in  December for the first time in six months, a survey showed on  Thursday, and a separate report indicated a slowdown in  help-wanted ads across the nation last month, suggesting  weakness in next week's U.S. employment numbers.
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One of the oldest textile operators on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius last week shut seven factories and cut 900 jobs.
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Colgate-Palmolive said that it would close about a third of its factories and cut more than 4,400 jobs over the next four years.
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A clothing factory in County Londonderry is to close with the loss of 260 jobs within five years.
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Colgate-Palmolive is to cut about 4,440 jobs -12 per cent of the workforce - and close roughly one-third of its factories amid fierce competition from Procter &amp; Gamble.
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Aluminium giant Alcoa is to close its Swansea factory by the end of March, leading to hundreds of job losses.
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MUSKEGON, Mich. - Dana Corp. plans to close an iron foundry here by early August, eliminating 240 jobs, employees were told Wednesday.
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Chicago-area factories shed jobs in December for the first time in six months, a survey showed on Thursday, and a separate report indicated a slowdown in help
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OTTAWA - The economy created another 34,300 jobs in October but the unemployment rate remained at 7.1 per cent as more people entered the labour force, Statistics Canada said Friday.
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Business & money: 11 factories to close despite three years of cost-cutting drive at Cadbury Schweppes.