Job Cuts Temper East Bay Growth: Up to 900 Staff Reductions Coming in Wake of Region's Recent Ascent to Record Employment
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By George Avalos, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Jan. 30--Despite the East Bay's steadily expanding economy, a fresh round of job cuts totaling in the hundreds looms over East Bay work sites, employers confirmed Monday.
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Job-cutting continued across the country at a breakneck pace in October, according to the monthly survey by Challenger, Gray &amp; Christmas Inc.
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The job cuts are a part of the company&#39;s efforts to shift its focus to business services and cut costs amid the competitive long-distance telephone services market.
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Circuit City Stores, the second-largest U.S. consumer-electronics chain, said it is cutting about 850 jobs in the United States, on top of 3,400 eliminated in March, as it realigns store management.
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Troubled company will trim 5% of work force due to stiff competition, soft business software market. NEW YORK  - Computer Associates said Wednesday it would cut its work force by 800 jobs, or 5 percent
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Bank of America Corp. said yesterday it will add up to 900 jobs in Rhode Island with the opening of a call center in East Providence.
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HUNDREDS of Norwich Union workers were dealt a double blow today after it was announced more jobs in the city were to be lost. Bosses said up to 70 posts were to go abroad while more than 140 jobs would transferred to York.
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WASHINGTON - American firms announced the steepest job cuts in eight months in September and also slashed hiring plans, a survey showed.
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A rash of job cuts - more than 10,000 layoffs this week from a handful of companies â-as created some gloom on the job front. But today&#39;s release of jobs data for September was
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About 1,000 employees at Fleet branches across the Northeast got the ax yesterday - and thousands more job cuts are on the way as new owner Bank of America Corp. aims to hit its goal of reducing total employment by 12,500.
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Bank of America said today it will cut about 2.5 percent of its work force beginning this month as a result of its merger with FleetBoston.
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Job cut announcements by US employers totaled more than 100,000 for a second month in October, suggesting companies may trim work forces in anticipation of fewer orders, a private survey found.
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In SAN FRANCISCO story, "UPDATE 1-National Semiconductor to  cut about 6 pct of staff," please read in second paragraph "...  450 factory jobs ..." instead of "... 550 factory jobs ..."
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The city&#39;s mayor says about four-thousand unionized maids, bellhops, cooks and other hourly wage earners will return to their jobs Tuesday following an eight-week lockout.
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THE REGION The Boston City Council is expected to pass a resolution today calling the recent move to outsource about 50 jobs at The Boston Globe to India "deplorable." The resolution, by Council President Maureen E. Feeney of Dorchester and Councilor Felix Arroyo of Hyde Park, lends support to a protest by the Boston Newspaper Guild, which represents editorial, advertising, ...
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The BBC has confirmed plans to axe 2,900 jobs over the next three years under moves to make savings of Â£320 million. In a special message to staff, director general Mark Thompson said 2,500 jobs will be cut
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The British Broadcasting Corporation on Tuesday said it would cut about 2,900 jobs, more than 10 per cent of its workforce, as a part of &quot;transformation&quot; of the world&#39;s biggest public broadcaster, aimed at saving 320 million pounds a year.