WAMC New York News
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Wamu/JP Morgan Chase Layoffs: 3400 Seattle Jobs
(2008-12-01)
Washington Mutual Building in Downtown Seattle Bellamy Pailthorp
(KPLU) - It's official now. JP Morgan Chase is phasing out 34-hundred (3,400) high-paying jobs in Seattle. That's more than eighty percent of Washington Mutual bank's downtown workforce.
WaMu was sold to Chase in September. KPLU business and labor reporter Bellamy Pailthorp has the story.
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