More Philly job cuts this fall: Mellon, Atkore: Update

Four Philadelphia employers plan to cut a total of more than 800 jobs this fall, according to reports filed with the state Department of Labor (see UPDATE to St. Joseph's item):

  - Bank of NewYork Mellon is cutting 280 tech support positions in the old Lits building at 701 Market St., by Oct. 9. (Follows 120 back-office bank job cuts here by Wells Fargo & Co. last winter.)
  - Atkore International, a Harvey, Ill.-based electrical manufacturer , is cutting 217 and "closing" its Northeast Philadelphia plant, 11350 Norcom Rd., by Oct. 5. Atkore, part of Tyco International before its 2010 sale to buyout investor Clayton Dubilier & Rice, announced the closing, plus cutbacks at its Phoenix and Harvey, Ill., factories here. (Tough year for Northeast Philly manufacturing. See also the recent shutdown by Mondelez (ex Nabisco/Kraft) and the pending closure at Perfecseal, each idling hundreds).
  - Amoroso's Baking Co. has confirmed long-delayed plans to close its West Philadelphia plant (as my colleague Harold Brubaker reported earlier this month) and move baking to South Jersey, idling 200 here, by Oct. 6.
  - Saint Joseph's University plans to cut 172 jobs as of Sept. 30. UPDATE: Spokesman Joe Lunardi says this does NOT affect SJU permanent staff but rather "150 part-time student employees and 20 prospective student employees of the Telephonic Research Operation (TRO) in Alumni House that the University's contract with Marketing Systems Group (MSG) is expiring and the TRO will cease operations on September 30, 2015.") (See also 23 job cuts by that other Catholic college in the city's outer rim, LaSalle University.)

Also, in West Chester, Flextronics International USA says it's cutting 90 jobs in a facility closing by the end of this year. Read the sad list of Pa. layoffs announced this month, here.