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Who shot? The dismissals week ending 10-23-09

Who's Cooking is a weekly survey of organizations to announce (or rumoring) layoffs for the week ending 10-23-09. Not only is this valuable for job seekers, but for business analysts, business strategists, traders, vendors, investment analysts, financial advisors, and others who are interested in companies that are contracting.

The announced layoffs and rumors this week were in government, Health, Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical, Financial Banking /, and the publishing industry.

Inclusion in this list does not mean the whole industry has been reduced, since many of the same sector appeared in the "Who's hiring" article published 10/19/09. Interestingly, that while federal procurement is increasing, a number of state and local governments have continued to see the cuts for the last month.

Health Organizations care were laying as Valley Mental Health, Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Cook County Health System, Oak Forest Hospital, Pfizer, Carestream Health, Medical Navilyst, Eli Lilly, medical Smith.

Publishers continued to shed jobs as Time, The New York Times, The Charlotte Observer, and McGraw-Hill announced layoffs, while rumors swirled around Conde Nast-on which units would face job cuts.

Job seekers: You may want to seek pastures greener in which these companies.

Organizations announce layoffs rumored or weeks ended 10/23/09:

Alstom Transportation, Hornell NY (500)
Electrolux, Webster City, IA (850)
Valley Mental Health, Salt Lake City UT (up 125)
Time Inc., New York (approx. 600)
Sun Microsystems, National (3000)
International Paper, National (1600)
Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Evansville and Mt Vernon IN (115)
Cook County Health and Hospital System, Chicago IL (335)
Iowa State (793)
Hospital in Oak Forest, IL Oak Forest (200)
Emerson / Schneider National, Bridgeton MO (330)
NCR Corporation, National (2200)
Modine Manufacturing Company, Harrodsburg KY (110)
Nautilus, Independence VA (173)
Expedia, Tacoma WA (200?)
New Page Corp Whiting, WI (100?)
Pilkington Automotive Glass Plant (NSG Group), Clinton MI (130)
Sallie Mae, Nacional (1-2K?)
Massachusetts (726)
Varian Medical Systems, Palo Alto, CA (150)
Pfizer, KS Overland Park (200)
Regions Financial Corp., Birmingham, AL (1700 YTD)
Sullivan County, New York (100)
Lexmark International Inc. of Lexington KY (825)
Mohawk Industries, Waynesboro VA (120)
Jakks Pacific Inc., Malibu CA (100 +)
Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago IL (1000 +)
Missouri Department of Natural Resources (Division of State Parks) (100 +)
BAE Systems, PA West Manchester (130)
Chicago, IL (220 jobs eliminated)
New York Times, New York (100)
Workforce Solutions East Texas (50)
Standard Chartered Bank, Miami FL (72)
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, Nacional (57)
Health Forum Inc, Youngstown OH (52)
Carestream Health Inc, Windsor CO (70)
Iowa State (791)
Kronos Inc. (Stromburg), Lake Mary FL (70)
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach FL (21)
General Shale, TN Spring City (19)
Navilyst Medical, Glens Falls NY (51)
Sacramento County, CA (76)
Pilkington Automotive, MI Clinton (130)
LHI Enterprises Inc, Hartland WI (80)
Georgia Pacific, Fordyce AR (300)
Extreme Networks, Santa Clara CA (70)
Lockheed Martin, Archbald PA (50)
Goss International, Dover NH (unknown)
Eli Lilly, National (unknown)
Semiconductiors Freescale, Austin TX and National (unknown)
Shuttle America, Honolulu HI (74)
CNH Global, International (10-12%)
Child Protective Services, Sacramento CA (76)
St. Joseph County, IN (54)
Estes Express Lines, Knoxville TN (unknown)
21st Century Insurance, NY Vestal (54)
State of Pennsylvania (Unknown)
MADD Mothers Against Drunk Driving, National (unknown)
The Charlotte Observer, Charlotte NC (unknown)
Arizona Department of Public Safety (unknown)
Smith Medical, Waukesha WI (104)
Book Wausau, Appleton WI (55)
Tree Top Inc, Rialto CA (75)
Assurant Specialty Property, Santa Ana and Tustin CA (74)
The McGraw-Hill Cos., Woodland Hills CA (85)
West Marine Products, Watsonville CA (325)
Curtiss-Wright Controls, integrated detection, CA Long Beach (81)
Kavlico, Moorpark CA (169)
Baker Hughes Incorporated, Houston TX (62)
Fluor Enterprises, Inc, Sugar Land TX (617)
U.S. Redcats, Universal City TX (490)
Big Stick, Services National Sports, Las Vegas NV (unknown)
Formtech Industries, Minerva, OH (68)
Coca-Cola Enterprises, Havre de Grace MD (50)
Faurecia Automotive Inc to be, KY Walton (68)
Farmers Group Inc, Vestal NY (54)
The food's great Company LLC, New York Syosset (78)
Matrx (Midmark Corporation) Orchard Park, NY (87)

Source: Google, Twitter, AllPinkSlips.com, Telonu.com, TechCrunch.com, CoStar.com, Gawker, Screwedd.com

Readers – If you Employers know announcing major plans for dismissal, employers or the reduction of a large number of employees, please comment below to add to this list.

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Phil Rosenberg is President of reCareered and runs Career Change Central, recently named one of Linkedin’s top groups that job seekers must join. An active blogger about career transition, Phil’s articles have been republished by Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, CIO, FastCompany and dozens of job/recruiting sites.

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