Pfizer To Cut 275 Jobs From Michigan Plant
2 CommentsBy Ed Silverman // July 14th, 2008 // 11:48 am
The drugmaker plans to eliminate the manufacturing jobs before the end of the year, according to The Kalamazoo Gazette.
Plant supervisors were announcing plans to workers this morning as part of “ongoing efforts to remain globally competitive,” a Pfizer spokesman tells the paper. “We’re restructuring many of our support staff, supervisory and operational functions in Kalamazoo manufacturing. The net impact will be a reduction of 275 positions.” There was no word on how much would be saved by the move.
The cutback, which follows shifting extensive research operations from Ann Arbor, Michigan, to Groton, Connecticut, where Pfizer’s R&D is headquartered, will reduce the drugmaker’s employee roster in the area to about 2,500, according to the spokesman. Early last year, Pfizer announced plans to cut about 10,000 jobs and close five facilities, including Michigan research cites.
Justice in MI
I think this leaves us with minus numbers of Pfizer employees in Michigan….
But, indeed, Kalamazoo has responded well to earlier cuts there, the remnants of Pharmacia/Upjohn/Searle.
The lobby of the Capitol Bldg. in Lansing will be less crowded.
Bob Freeman
A very sad day, indeed.
I heard that Bld 88, the one that one so many architectural awards, was razed and they can’t even give away the Medical Affairs building across the road in Portage.