December Job Loss Tracker
It is very difficult to track each and every job cut. We are trying to track the jobs lost in the United States only, but sometimes it ends up spilling over to foreign jobs as well. Here is a list by dates, company, type of industry and count of the jobs that have been lost (domestic & foreign) in America’s largest publicly-traded companies for December 2008:
Date———-Company———-Total Lost—Industry
12/23/2008 Johnson Controls 125 Consumer Durables
12/23/2008 Las Vegas Sands 11,500 Entertainment
12/22/2008 Parker-Hannifin 405 Capital Goods
12/22/2008 Eaton 331 Capital Goods
12/19/2008 Genworth Financial 1,000 Insurance
12/19/2008 Electronic Arts 1,000 Software
12/19/2008 Sovereign Bancorp 1,000 Banking
12/18/2008 Caterpillar 814 Capital Goods
12/18/2008 Omnicom Group 3,145 Media
12/17/2008 Ryder System 3,100 Services
12/17/2008 Western Digital 2,500 Technology
12/17/2008 Aetna 1,000 Health Care
12/17/2008 Parker-Hannifin 46 Capital Goods
12/17/2008 Bristol-Myers Squibb 3,700 Pharmaceuticals
12/16/2008 CBS 30 Media
12/15/2008 Merrill Lynch 400 Financials
12/15/2008 Charles Schwab 100 Financials
12/13/2008 Berkshire Hathaway 345 Finance
12/12/2008 Masco 500 Construction
12/12/2008 International Paper 2,050 Materials
12/11/2008 Bank of America 35,000 Banking
12/11/2008 Whirlpool 250 Household Consumables
12/10/2008 Mohawk Industries 105 Household Consumables
12/10/2008 Procter & Gamble 320 Household Consumables
12/09/2008 Praxair 1,600 Chemicals
12/08/2008 Anheuser-Busch Co. 1,400 Food
12/08/2008 3M 2,300 Conglomerates
12/08/2008 Wyndham Worldwide 4,000 Entertainment
12/08/2008 Dow Chemical 5,000 Chemicals
12/05/2008 General Motors 7,758 Consumables
12/05/2008 Legg Mason 200 Financials
12/05/2008 Cablevision 100 Media
12/05/2008 Staples 140 Retail
12/04/2008 Steel Dynamics 65 Materials
12/05/2008 Cummins 500 Capital Goods
12/04/2008 Windstream 170 Telecommunications
12/04/2008 General Electric 500 Conglomerates
12/04/2008 E.I. du Pont de Nemours 2,500 Chemicals
12/04/2008 AT&T 12,000 Telecommunications
12/032008 Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold 1200 Materials
12/03/2008 United Technologies 350 Conglomerates
12/03/2008 Gannett 2,000 Media
12/03/2008 Adobe Systems 600 Software
12/03/2008 Jefferies Group 300 Financials
12/03/2008 Viacom 850 Media
12/2/2008 United States Steel 4,175 Materials
12/01/2008 JPMorgan Chase 9,200 Banking
12/01/2008 PepsiCo 87 Food & Beverage
With help from Forbes