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MILWAUKEE - Thermo Fisher
Scientific Inc. says it is cutting nearly half of its
workforce in Milwaukee.
The company said Thursday it
is eliminating about 43 of 100 jobs at its Milwaukee
location.
Thermo Fisher makes
laboratory reagents and performs product development in
Milwaukee. A company spokesman says the work is being
transferred to other Thermo Fisher locations, including a
plant in Lithuania. The company says the affected Milwaukee
jobs will be gone by August.
The Waltham, Mass.-based
company has more than 30,000 employees worldwide, including
about 1,200 in Wisconsin.
The move comes weeks after
Thermo Fisher announced the end of its manufacturing in Two
Rivers. But the spokesman tells the Milwaukee Journal
Sentinel (http://bit.ly/A64gWP) the Milwaukee job cuts are
not tied to the Two Rivers announcement.
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