Unisys to lay off 1,400 workers
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Unisys Corp. plans to cut 1,400 jobs, primarily in general and administrative areas, and consolidate its office space worldwide, it announced Wednesday. The cuts represent 3.8 percent of the company's staff of 37,000.
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(InfoWorld) - IBMÂ laid off 1,573 employees WednesdayÂ as part of a continuing overhaul of its services unit, the company said. Most of the layoffs came from IBM's services unit and most from North America, said Edward Barbini, a company spokesman. The layoffs were part of a restructuring effort the company announced during its first quarter financial results presentation in April. During the earnings calls, IBM CFO Mark Loughridge said the company needed to address the cost of its services unit in North America. "We said then we were going to do this," Barbini said. Based on past layoffs, about 20 percent of those laid off Wednesday will find other jobs at IBM, Barbini said. At the end of 2006, IBM had about 355,000 employees. According to union leaders, IBM laid off more than 1,300 people from its global services division earlier this month.ADVERTISEMENTIBM Information On Demand 2006Industrial Industry Leaders, please join us at IBM's premier information management global event, IBM Information On Demand 2006, October 15-20, Anaheim, CA. More IBM business and technical solutions content in one place than ever before! Select from  over 800 sessions. Register today!
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Siemens AG plans to cut 1,250 jobs in its wireline network business as it restructures the unit, the German engineering giant said Friday.
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TORONTO -- Nortel Networks yesterday gave details of a previously announced job cut program, saying it is cutting 1,400 positions in the United States by next June.
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AOL laid off more than 450 employees at its corporate headquarters yesterday as part of plans announced earlier this year to cut costs and change the company's business strategy.
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BOSTON -- IBM Corp. laid off 1,570 people Wednesday, primarily from an ongoing overhaul of operations in its giant technology services unit.
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The worldÂs largest drug company said that it would lay off almost 2,400 employees in what may indicate a wider retrenchment of the drug industry.
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United Airlines said it is laying off about 825 customer service employees, ramp workers and other airport staffers as it tries to slash costs and get out of bankruptcy.
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About 800 workers at the Swift &amp; Co. meat packing plant will lose their jobs four days before Christmas. The layoffs will take effect Dec. 20, 11 days before a contract expires
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BALTIMORE - General Motors Corp. will close a Baltimore assembly plant that employs about 1,100 people and discontinue the two brands of vans they produced, a spokesman for the world&#39;s biggest automaker said Tuesday.
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Commerce One says it must lay off 56 employees, leaving it with 36 to operate its supplier relationship management business unit. Years of economic devastation have left Commerce One -- once
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General Motors announced on Tuesday that it was laying off nearly 1,000 factory workers at its Linden, NJ, truck plant and ending production of one of Chevrolet&#39;s best-known models, the Blazer.
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Seagate Technology, the world's largest maker of hard drives, said Monday it is shuttering one of two manufacturing facilities in Northern Ireland, resulting in a cut of 780 employees, about 1.5 percent of the company's global work force.
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Sprint Nextel is laying off about 4000 employees and closing retail outlets after losing more than 100,000 customers in the last quarter.
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Paper maker UPM-Kymmene started talks Monday to lay off up to 1,200 employees &#151; more than 3 percent its work force &#151; and close some mills in Finland because of oversupply in the sawn timber trade.
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Company cutting 375 jobs to eliminate redundancies in wake of ATI acquisition.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Wireless equipment maker LM Ericsson AB reported a sharp drop in fourth-quarter net profits and said Friday it would lay off around 1,000 employees in Sweden because of costs cuts.