Texas based video game maker, TimeGate, now bankrupt. Apparently they lost a legal battle that’s been raging since 2009. Bell Helicopter announced it was cutting back on its Fort Worth operations. 140 people out-o-work! Blamed on expected reductions in orders for the V-22 Osprey tilt rotor aircraft.
Video game make, Glu Mobile, laid off 68 people at its Washington operations. It has something to do with their new games-as-a-service scheme. The Sears in the Wenatchee Valley Mall will close in August. 59 people out-o-work.
300 people lost their jobs with Xerox! Xerox shut down their Coos Bay, Oregon, call center operations. Company officials blame it on an unnamed client they were serving.
Idaho based paper products company, Boise, will layoff 265 people at their International Falls, Minnesota, operations! Apparently sales are so bad they have to shut down two production lines by 01 October.
The irony of the bad economy is that Pennsylvania’s Department of Labor and Industry laid off 100 employees! State officials blame lack of federal funding. In Sellersville, Teva Pharmaceutical announced it will shut down its research and manufacturing facility by 2017. 472 employees affected!
The California Department of Developmental Services has decided that 54 employees at their Porterville Developmental Center are “surplus” and will be laid off by the end of August. However, a consultant pointed out that the facility is already short staffed, and the layoffs will make things worse: “It’s very ironic. We already have an issue with massive overtime and staff doing its best to keep the staffing ratio up and running.”-Brady Oppenheim
In Florida, as the shut down of the Crystal River nuke plant continues, Duke Energy forced to layoff hundreds more employees. 585 employees to be let go over the next 12 months! The nuke plant is being shut down because it was revealed that Duke Energy employees damaged a containment building, then majorly screwed up the repair job. It would cost $3.4 billion to fix the botched repair.
90 people lost their jobs with BuySeasons in New Berlin, Wisconsin. It’s blamed on crashing sales.
In New York, the 72 years old Saints Peter and Paul Catholic School in Auburn closed down. It’s blamed on a drastic drop in student enrollment. Also, the Rome Catholic High School closed down. It’s blamed on declining enrollment. In Henrietta, Tyco Integrated Security is ending operations by October. 132 people out-o-work!
The Ri Ra Irish Pub in Bethesda, Maryland, will close in September. The owners said it wasn’t worth it to renew the lease.
Stage Stores closing their Mecklenburg County office in Virginia. 112 people unemployed! The company is consolidating operations to Texas.
In Georgia, the owner of new age book store Trilogy is switching to internet sales only. The owner is moving to Texas, for family reasons.
The owners of The Little Red Gift Shop, in Ohio, sold out: “The developer building across the street approached us with a good enough offer and we accepted it.”-Betty Donnellan
In Phoenix, Arizona, the Cheuvront Restaurant & Wine Bar closed down. The owner, a former state politician, hopes to open a new restaurant in the Sky Harbor airport.