This week's layoffs do not necessarily destroy that achievement.
The power unions' proudest moment so far was wringing a ten-year moratorium on layoffs from Belgium's Tractebel in 2000 when it bought a stake in the Polaniec power plant.
Here, highlights of the week's activity recorded by the Forbes.com Layoff Tracker, which counts the layoffs at all the nation's 500 largest publicly traded corporations.
This represents 36% of the total major layoffs in the U.S. in the first quarter.
After making the ownership more transparent, he pushed through factory closures, 12, 000 layoffs and a division's sale.
The Forbes.com Layoff Tracker, updated daily, currently counts 631, 196 layoffs announced at America's 500 largest public companies since Nov. 1, 2008.
The Forbes.com Layoff Tracker, updated daily, currently counts 560, 477 layoffs announced at America's 500 largest public companies since Nov. 1, 2008.
Planned layoffs fell at U.S. firms fell in December, with 32, 556 job cuts announced by employers, according a report from consultants Challenger, Gray and Christmas.
Last week, the company announced a global restructuring plan that will see major layoffs in the U.S. and Thailand, as well as factory shutdowns at home.
The company responded with massive layoffs, which devastated Seattle's economy and put Sullivan out of business.
This isn't Zynga's first round of layoffs, but it is the largest.
Of Caterpillar's 22, 000 layoffs, at least 1, 500 are in greater Peoria.
Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos of Long Island said his conference remains concerned that raising the minimum wage will force layoffs and hamper New York's slow economic recovery.
The layoffs are part of Michael Dell 's effort to resurrect the ailing company that bears his name.
Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer will give his State of Orlando speech Wednesday, the same week the area's biggest employer could begin layoffs.
And we have provided the resources necessary to prevent painful cuts and teacher layoffs that would set back our children's progress.
The layoffs represent nearly 7% of Ford's UK workforce of 12, 900 - with almost half of the Southampton factory's staff of 1, 100 affected.
Cheney's company alone had recently announced the layoffs of more than 10, 000 workers.
The altar of post-war Japan, the workplace, is cracking, as the ever-increasing number of layoffs terrifies a society in which a man's existence is defined by his job.
Analysts credit NAFTA with spurring a 7 percent increase in Mexico's gross domestic product in 2000, but the U.S. economic slowdown has also ground Mexico's economy to a halt and prompted layoffs.
After a round of layoffs in late 1995 Huang gathered the company's 35 remaining employees in a room and leveled with them: The company would have to find a way to catch up, fast.
Andersen, meanwhile, continues to collapse, having announced 7, 000 layoffs Monday, about a quarter of its U.S. workforce.
Solidarity, which represents a quarter of the operator's workforce, secured a ban on forced layoffs until February 2004.
The present cuts in capacity and job layoffs may not be enough, according to IATA's director general, Pierre Jeanniot.
The March data showed the services sector, which makes up around 70% of the country's economy, saw the highest number of layoffs.
And this is at a time when we know one of the biggest drags on our economy has been layoffs by state and local governments -- that's true all across the country.
That's why we invested in schools and prevented layoffs of hundreds of thousands of teachers and public school workers, including thousands of educators in this state -- because we know we will not be able to compete in new industries unless we've got workers ready to fill jobs in those industries.
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Major U.S. carriers announced schedule cutbacks and plans for layoffs in the wake of the attacks.
AHP's agribusiness division into the red, leading to layoffs and plans for a sale.
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