Layoffs to hit another Dell plant
An assembly plant in North Carolina will be next on Dell's streak of cost-cutting moves resulting in layoffs.
Dell is laying off workers, but the company will not give the total number and location of all employees affected. Dell did confirm that some of those affected are from the Winston-Salem, N.C., plant.
These layoffs are just the latest in a string of job cuts at the PC maker over the last year. The company laid out a goal in 2008 to cut its costs by $3 billion, which has resulted in plant closings and manufacturing being outsourced to third-parties. Dell CFO Brian Gladden said during the company's most recent earnings announcement that Dell intends to increase its savings by an additional $1 billion by 2011, which he did not deny would include additional layoffs.
Preceding Wednesday's North Carolina plant news, Dell said in early January that its Limerick, Ireland, plant would shed 1,900 jobs starting in April and manufacturing would be moved to its Poland plant and third-party contractors.
Erica Ogg is a CNET News reporter who covers Apple, HP, Dell, and other PC makers, as well as the consumer electronics industry. She's also one of the hosts of CNET News' Daily Podcast. In her non-work life, she's a history geek, a loyal Dodgers fan, and a mac-and-cheese connoisseur. E-mail Erica. 
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America needs those jobs, but are Americans even trying to keep those jobs in the US: No, we are lazy people who sit on our collective a$$e$ watching a TV we can't really afford and demand more money while doing so.
I totally agree with the point at the lazy people on welfare collecting tax payer money while they stay at home and watch Opera.
What I was talking about are the Americans willing to work and earn their own keep but can't find the work.
- by akpearle March 12, 2009 11:02 AM PDT
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(4 Comments)We'd all like to see employment numbers rise in the US. Do you advocate the actions that would truly help, like defeating the card check bill and lowering corporate tax rates, or merely expect employers to suck up the high costs of doing business here (incidentally, losing money for their stockholders -- including many middle class 401Ks)?