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JOB CUTS * USA - As expected, truck plants laying off workers
USA -eTrucker, by By Jill Dunn -11 Dec 206: -- Truck manufacturers are laying off factory employees in anticipation of an industrywide decline in demand for heavy-duty vehicles that meet the new federal emissions standards, which take effect Jan. 1, 2007... Freightliner has sent notices to 800 employees at its St. Thomas, Ontario, plant, which produces heavy- and medium-duty Sterling trucks... Volvo’s New River Valley Plant in Dublin, Va., which makes Volvo and Mack trucks, announced plans to reduce employment by about 1,000 positions – nearly a third of the current workforce of 3,170 -- during the first quarter of 2007. In addition, about 600 of the 1,770 employees at Volvo’s powertrain facility in Hagerstown, Md, about a third of the work force, will lose their jobs during the first half of 2007; and about 450 positions are being eliminated at Mack’s Macungie, Pa., truck plant, about 43 percent of the work force of 1,040 people... Larry Vessels, manager of Paccar’s Peterbilt plant in Madison, Tenn., informed state officials that “if business conditions remain at current levels” the company would permanently cut more than 500 positions in the two weeks after Jan. 25...
* USA - More Job Cuts Planned At UPS
Atlanta,Ga,USA -Hartford Courant/Associated Press -Dec 13, 2006: -- UPS Inc., the world's largest shipping carrier, is seeking more job cuts on top of 1,200 positions in its logistics unit that it previously said it would cut... The Atlanta-based company has offered voluntary severance packages to about 650 employees at its headquarters and in its Supply Chain Solutions division in the United States...
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