Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns.
California: Southern California Edison killed more Golden State jobs, this time 500 in-house employees and 500 contracted employees! Utility company officials admitted to state officials that they hired way more employees than their revenues can support! These job cuts are on top of the 600 jobs lost due to the shutdown of the San Onofre nuclear power plant! In San Diego, 71 employees connected to the San Diego Opera losing their jobs. Who said the internet is killing brick & mortar jobs? In Roseville, caranything.com warned it must kill 99 jobs.
Connecticut: In New Canaan, after 21 years Forest Street Deli shutdown. The deli owner blames the property owner, who sold the property out from under his feet!
Delaware: In Seaford, Sears shutting down in summer, 30 jobs lost.
Florida: Duval County Head Start more than 300 people will become unemployed by the end of May, due to loss of funding! The education program is forced to rely on cheap contractors. In Saint Augustine, after 36 years Pot Belly’s movie theater and model kit and toy car museum shutdown. The owner said he needs to retire and nobody is worthy enough to take over the business: “The kids couldn’t handle all this. It’s just too much stuff. What do you do? Do you store it? I’ve got two sheds already full of it!”-Kenny Pierce
Georgia: In Atlanta, video game maker CCP laid off 56 employees. They canceled their latest video game production because it wasn’t meeting their expectations.
Illinois: Peoria School District 150 killing 200 jobs! District officials blamed crashing funding from federal and state tax revenues, and even crashing local property tax revenues. In other words, the economy sucks ass!
Kansas: In Lawrence, after 37 years Buffalo Bob’s Smokehouse shutdown: “…the restaurant market in Lawrence is fully saturated.”-Bob Schumm, founder
Kentucky: In Louisville, Jamba Juice shutdown, no reason given. In Paducah, The Pasta House Italian Restaurant shut down without notice: “…I am unable to continue. Please pray for me, my family and my employees.”-statement posted to front door
Maine: Calais Regional Hospital announced they must kill an undisclosed number of jobs, and reduce the hours for 30% of remaining employees. They blame Obama Care for reducing the number of people going to hospitals for help.
Michigan: In Keego Harbor, Jeremy Restaurant & Bar shutting down in May. But this is a success story! The owner said he made so much money that he is going to open an even bigger restaurant.
Minnesota: After only two years party supply store Little Green Balloon shutdown.
Missouri: In Saint Louis, a Schnuck Markets grocery store shutting down in May. Company officials said it wasn’t worth it to renew the lease, and they will try to find jobs for the 65 employees.
New York: Silicone and quartz producer Momentive Performance Materials now chapter 11 bankrupt busted. It’s blamed on the 2006 takeover by Apollo Management Group, which left Momentive with billions of dollars of debt. Too Big to Jail Citi Markets laying off 300 employees, according to a unnamed inside source. In Syracuse, Rosewood Heights Health Center shutting down their nursing home by June, at least 25 jobs lost. Obama Care drastically cuts government and insurance industry payments for inpatient care services. What automotive industry recovery? In Owego, France based automotive electronics maker Asteelflash laid off 34 U.S. employees, blaming the bad economy. In Brooklyn, after 52 years God refused to stop the shutdown of Bishop Ford Central Catholic High School. School officials blamed it on a 75% drop in student enrollment! In Amherst, Primary Financial Services warned they will shutdown their call center in July, 121 jobs lost! Across New York, VNS CHOICE Community Care expanded its previously announced layoffs, an additional 100 healthcare workers to become unemployed in July! In NYC, clothing retailer Juicy Couture announced they will kill an additional 26 jobs in June, due to sale of company.
North Carolina: God refuses to stop Obama Care from killing jobs at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. The Winston Salem Journal says unnamed inside sources revealed as many as 1-thousand healthcare workers will become unemployed by the middle of 2015! Unnamed sources say the job culling has already begun. That’s on top of the 950 laid off by the middle of 2013! It is blamed on Obama Care: “The medical center is deeply engaged in its annual budgeting process and is continuing to proactively address the challenge of declining reimbursement for health care services.”-official hospital statement
Ohio: In Mason, after 24 years Bob Evans Restaurant shutdown. The corporation is remodeling all Bob Evans restaurants, but a survey of the Mason store revealed it was too old and too costly to remodel so they decided to shut it down. Company officials claim they’ve found jobs for the 40 employees.
Pennsylvania: Concurrent Technologies Corporation announced more layoffs. CTC laid off employees in 2013 and 2012 as well. The company is undergoing radical restructuring. Bethlehem Area School District eliminating 22 teacher positions, despite local tax increases. Apparently Pennsylvania school districts cannot layoff employees due to economic reasons, so the district is blaming the ongoing trend of disappearing students. District officials also pointed out that even at maximum local taxes they still won’t have enough money to pay all the bills. In Pittsburgh, Wall Street wunderkind Warren Buffet killed more Heinz jobs. 775 people have been offered buyouts! Reports say the offer is being made to other Heinz operations. Local biased Pennsylvania news media failed to point out that Heinz is now co-owned by Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway. They only mentioned Brazil’s 3G Capital. Hey Pennsylvania news media, why didn’t you mention Warren Buffet’s involvement? By the way, the June 2013 takeover of Heinz by 3G and Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway resulted in an instant killing of 600 U.S. and Canadian jobs, followed by the announcement of several food factory shutdowns and hundreds of more layoffs for the 1st quarter of 2014!
West Virginia: In Nitro, legal drugs pusher Rite Aid shutting down their distribution center by November 2017. 200 jobs will be lost, with layoffs starting in July 2014!
Wisconsin: Delavan-Darien School District eliminated 18 positions, mainly teachers. Obama Care is partly to blame, for jacking up health insurance premiums and forcing changes to retirement plans.
11 – 13 April 2014: “…I can’t do it anymore.” “We will not survive!”
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.
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