Incomplete list of announced closings and layoffs.
California: In Fresno GAF laid off nine people. Tax sucker Boeing laid off 11 people. In West Hollywood, local internet advertising developer CityGrid Media laid off 108 employees! The company’s New York based parent, IAC, blames it on the bad economy, saying revenues could no longer support their California staff. CityGrid laid off employees last year, too. In Fountain Valley, memory card maker Kingston Technology laid off 55 people. Production is being moved to Taiwan/China. In San Clemente, Southern California Edison laid off 600 people! It’s blamed on the shut down of the damaged and leaking San Onofre nuclear plant. In Mountain View, Areva Solar laid off at least one person. The Christian God can’t stop Obama Care layoffs. Christian medical university/hospital Loma Linda laid off 113 people! Loma Linda has been cutting pay and laying off employees since 2009. In Arvin, medical device maker Salter Labs laid off 87 people. Salter Labs moving production to Mexico to avoid Obama Care’s tax on medical devices. Arvin has the highest unemployment rate in Kern County, in May it hit 29% unemployment before the Arvin layoffs were announced! In Visalia, Medical Billings Technologies laid off 21 employees. In Alameda, Caliper Life Sciences laid off 60 employees. In Cerritos, medical biller Revcycle+ laid off 189 people! In Redwood City, Abbvie Biotherapeutics laid off 63 employees.
New York: In White Plains, Pearson Education laid off 55 employees.
Ohio: What Obama Care? Blue Cross & Blue Shield laid off 159 people! In Columbus, DialAmerica shut down a call center, 143 people unemployed! The closure comes one month after DialAmerica claimed it would be hiring 170 people, local news media were refused an explanation.
South Carolina: What Obama Care? In Columbia, Medicare and Medicaid payments processor Palmetto GBA (a subsidiary of Blue Cross & Blue Shield) laid off 126 people! Palmetto has been laying off employees since 2007, this after claiming to start hiring as many as 1-thousand people in 2004.
Tennessee: In Memphis, local shipping company ARL Memphis East laid off 89 employees.
The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) doesn’t count the hundreds of layoffs involving less than 50 people each, in its mass layoff reports. It also doesn’t count all the little ‘mom & pop’ businesses that shut down.
“Our ideals and principles, as well as our national security……..That’s what makes America different. That’s what makes us exceptional.”-Barack Obama, 10 September 2013