Incomplete list of announced closings & layoffs.
The U.S. Army wants to kill 40-thousand jobs by the end of 2015!
The Congress controlled U.S. Postal Regulatory Commission will eliminate 10-thousand U.S. Postal Service jobs between now and the end of 2015! USPS has halted hiring. The USPS has already lost 320-thousand jobs since 2000!!!
California: Tax sucker Boeing continued killing jobs, this time 16 people became unemployed. In Fresno, GAF continued killing jobs, this time 11 people became unemployed. In San Jose, after only four years Elefante Blanco upscale thrift shop shutdown. The owner blames it on a rent increase.
Colorado: Obama Care killing healthcare management company Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX). Company officials said they must “restructure” to adjust to the new realities of Obama Care, which means more than 130 employees are now unemployed! In Grand Junction, CenturyLink shutting down their call center by July. The number of call center jobs being lost was not reported, but local news media said it would affect dozens of jobs outside the call center.
Connecticut: The city of New Britain warned its 500 employees of massive layoffs. The city is projected to be in the hole $33-million USD!
Georgia: Jackson County School District wants to kill 42 jobs. District officials blamed decreased funding and gott damned Obama Care for jacking up health insurance and retirement costs for employees! Officials say reduced taxpayer funding and increased Obama Care costs have created a $4.6-million shortfall! In Richmond Hill, after more than 33 years manufacturer of foodservice and food retail products, Hobart, shutting down. 50 jobs lost. Operations are being consolidated to Ohio.
Hawaii: United Airlines laying off an undisclosed number of employees. Reports say it could be in the “hundreds”!
Illinois: In Saint Charles, after only five years Dolce Bakery and Cafe shutdown without notice. In Chicago, Angel Food Bakery shutdown, the owner Stephanie Samuels blames the gott damned economy, saying “I have given my heart, soul, and just about everything else I’ve got to this project of mine, but I have not been able to make it sustainable for me….” Dunlap School District laid off 17 employees. It was revealed the district is in the hole $2.1-million. Employees are pissed because last year the district led everybody to believe the district was in good shape. State officials warned of massive layoffs across the board, because of a massive 2015 budget shortfall. The Superintendent of Schools warned 13400 teachers could become unemployed! Department of Corrections says besides a 20% reduction of prison guard jobs, 11 prisons will be shutdown and 15500 prisoners released! ‘Elected’ officials said the only way to avoid such an economic hell is to massively raise taxes. Sounds like the people of Illinois are damned if they do, damned if they don’t!
Kansas: Overland Park, cell phone service Sprint finally admitted they are going to hell! Not only have they closed three major call centers (reported in previous Job Losses & Store Closings reports) but they will shutdown 55 Sprint stores and kill 1400 jobs across the United States!
Michigan: In White Lake Township, Kmart announced they will shutdown in April. It was once called the Kmart Store of the Future.
Minnesota: Mortgage default servicing and publishing operation The Dolan Company, now chapter 11 bankrupt busted! The really big banks halted all mortgage loans to the company! The company’s CEO has resigned. In Saint Cloud, Bo Diddley’s Pub & Deli shutting down in April. The owner refused to say why, but did say he was expanding his other restaurants.
Missouri: In Kansas City, after 42 years Superlatives home furnishings and gift store shutdown.
New Hampshire: In Manchester, light maker Osram Sylvania shutting down a factory in September, 139 jobs lost!
New Mexico: After more than 3 decades Albuquerque Lighting shutdown. The owner said the suck ass economy has “…been devastating for 5½ years!”
New York: In Amsterdam, Quandt’s Foodservice Distributors moved their planned layoffs to the end of April. The company was sold off. 116 jobs will be lost! In Fredonia, food supplier ConAgra continues factory shutdowns. 395 jobs to be killed between October 2014 and May 2015! Trenton School District to layoff 77 employees. District officials blamed part of their $10.5-million shortfall on charter schools.
Pennsylvania: In York, light maker Osram Sylvania shutting down a factory in September, 118 jobs lost!
Rhode Island: In Central Falls, light maker Osram Sylvania shutting down a factory in September, 88 jobs lost.
South Carolina: The U.S. Army has warned of layoffs at Fort Jackson. If the Defense Department doesn’t get the taxpayer funding it demands, then 3100 Fort Jackson employees will become unemployed!
South Dakota: In Sioux Falls, after 60 years Sid’s Liquor shutdown. The president of Sid’s blamed his crashing sales on state officials who, in 2008, passed a law that allowed big corporations to have more than one liquor license: “It’s like there’s a liquor store on every block. And we saw our sales decline by over 1-Million dollars a year! Which was a real kick in the pants. And we started losing money, and the losses just keep getting bigger!”-Paul Damyan
Tennessee: In Gallatin, after only two years Butterbean Bakery and Bistro shutdown. It’s blamed on health problems.
Texas: Obama Care has killed off Hospice House of Odessa! The operators said the new health care law made it almost impossible for them to provide care for terminally ill people!
Virginia: In Charlottesville, tax sucker Niitek laid off 78 employees. It’s blamed on reduced military spending.
Washington: The U.S. Department of Energy announced it will shutdown the Waste Sampling and Characterization Facility for the highly contaminated Hanford nuke site. 60 jobs lost. Apparently the DoE is going to send nuke waste samples to “offsite” labs. Sounds like a False Flag set up to me.
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