[Exelis](http://www.exelisinc.com/business/NVCS/Pages/default.aspx “Exelis Night Vision and Communications Solutions”) to cut 60 jobs at its Roanoke County night vision plant, reducing the number of employees in Roanoke County to 425 from a high of 1,525 in 2009. Read (Roanoke Times)
USPS plans to close the Roanoke mail processing facility as soon as January and move the operations to Greensboro. Approximately 400 jobs will be affected. Read (Roanoke Times)
Citing a weak truck market and soft economy, Volvo Trucks North America announced it would slice employment at its Dublin plant by more than a third and reduce production at the facility to one shift.
The 1,100 people who will lose their jobs beginning the week of May 12 represent a significant increase from the number the company expected to shed when it first announced layoffs late last year. At that time, up to 650 people were expected to be laid off at the end of January.
[Read](http://www.roanoke.com/news/nrv/wb/158618 “Read the Article”) (Roanoke Times)