Job alert - - RANDOLPH HEASTER LABOR SCENE: Arrow to close plant, cut jobs

RANDOLPH HEASTER LABOR SCENE: Arrow to close plant, cut jobs
Kansas City Star - Oct 24 5:22 AM
Arrow Electronics Inc. is eliminating 100 jobs by closing its Lenexa assembly plant early next year, with some of the operations transferring to a new facility in Mexico.Save to My Web

Briggs to cut 112 jobs, 3rd shift assembly
Murray Ledger & Times - Oct 23 5:19 PM
Citing a softer demand for its equipment, Briggs & Stratton Corp. is cutting more than 100 jobs from its Murray facility. Briggs Plant Manager Rodney Bohannon said the layoff is expected to begin Nov. 27 and will eliminate 112 jobs - or slightly less than 10 percent of the total employment.Save to My Web

645 jobs going at aerospace firm
BBC News - Oct 24 6:00 AM
More than 600 jobs are lost at Belfast aerospace company Shorts, Canadian parent company Bombardier says.Save to My Web

Oswego County company plans to boost production, add jobs
WCAX 3 - Oct 23 4:56 PM
PULASKI, N.Y. A central New York manufacturer is planning to triple production over the next six-months and add more than 100 jobs.Save to My Web

GE sells switchgear line, W. Burlington loses 300 jobs
WOI-TV Des Moines - Oct 24 5:31 AM
DES MOINES, Iowa About 300 workers at the General Electric manufacturing plant in West Burlington will lose their jobs next year.Save to My Web

Bombardier to slash 1,330 jobs; reduce production
New Ratings - Oct 24 11:02 AM
NEW YORK, October 24 (newratings.com) The world's third-largest civil aircraft maker, Bombardier Inc (tucker: BBDB), Tuesday announced that it is cutting 1,330 jobs in Montreal and Belfast and scaling down the production of regional jets.Save to My Web

Postal workers ballot for action to defend full-time jobs
Socialist Worker - Oct 24 10:46 AM
More postal workers are to start strike ballots over cuts and attacks on full-time jobs. The latest offices in the frontline are Antrim in Northern Ireland, Mansfield, and four areas in and around Portsmouth (including Fareham, Waterlooville and Havant).Save to My Web

Twenty jobs cut at travel agents
BBC News - Oct 24 9:56 AM
A travel agent call-centre office in north Devon is to close with the loss of about 20 jobs, its new owner announces.Save to My Web