Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
It’s been revealed that the draconian cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance (SNAP, formerly known as Food Stamps) will affect only four U.S. states: Michigan, Wisconsin, New Jersey and New Hampshire. The rest of the states say they will use their own taxpayer’s money to make up for the federal cuts. The cuts come at a time when there are record numbers of people needing food help. The cuts were passed by Congress and signed by the Obama regime. And administrators of SNAP say across the U.S. ‘white’ people are getting the most help for buying food (43%).
Arkansas: Obama Care forced now vacant county owned Crittenden Regional Hospital into chapter 7 bankruptcy (which usually means it’s ‘toast’). More than 400 healthcare workers lost their jobs! The draconian insurance reimbursements cuts imposed by Obama Care means the county hospital cannot pay off nearly $7-million USD in bonds, however, city and even federal government administrators are suing, accusing the county hospital board of essentially taking the bond money because bookkeeping can’t seam to account for it.
California: Microsoft announced it will layoff 160 Microsoft Mobile Oy employees in November as part of a 2nd round of massive international job killing (see Washington below)! In San Francisco, hotel Marriott Marquis announced a temporary layoff of at least 22 employees in November. In Campbell, cloud service Hightail (formerly YouSendIt) laid off 74 employees without notice.
Florida: In Pembroke Park, Mitt Romney’s wunderkind Staples announced it will shutdown a delivery operation in November, killing off 68 jobs.
Georgia: After 60 years the iconic Zesto Drive-In restaurant shutdown, the family owners say they were forced to sell by greedy property developers.
Illinois: In Saint Charles, a Savers thrift store shutdown. In Lake Zurich, a Savers thrift store shutdown. News reports said Savers administrators refused to explain why. The Illinois Policy Institute reports that the number of Prairie Staters whose incomes have crashed, and therefore should qualify for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance (SNAP, formerly known as Food Stamps), has hit 745-thousand. The institute says for every one person who loses a job at least two people go begging to the government for food. Chicago based United Airlines is now offering bribes (buyouts) to any flight attendant who quits. Airline administrators want at least 21-hundred flight attendants to voluntarily quit!
Kansas: Overland Park based cell phone service provider Sprint warned of massive layoffs: “Some managers will make it and some won’t. I told some managers that some are going to be gone…..You cannot lie to your employees.”-Marcelo Claure, CEO
Kentucky: In North Lexington, the YMCA announced they will shutdown their child development center in October, blaming declining enrollment. In Morehead, after 61 years Perk’s plumbing supply shutdown.
Maryland: What housing market recovery? In Rockville, RoundPoint Mortgage announced it will kill off 68 mortgage jobs. Taxsucking military contractor General Dynamics announced it will kill off 61 jobs in October.
Michigan: In Sterling Heights, a 246 room Best Western motel will be auctioned off in October. News reports say the motel is still operating. The motel is owned by evil vulture capital investors who want to dump it. An undisclosed number of bus drivers lost their jobs when Lakeview School District drastically reduced bus service. District administrators blame DSS (what I call Disappearing Student Syndrome).
Minnesota: Minneapolis based food giant General Mills revealed its profits for its fiscal 1st quarter crashed 25%! They will continue with job killing.
Missouri: In Ladue, after nearly 70 years Spicer’s toy and candy store shutdown, they couldn’t afford the new lease. What housing market recovery? In Saint Louis, Concrete Coring now chapter 11 bankrupt busted. Attorneys for the company blame the bad economy saying the company “…has been unable so far to work out from under its debt generated following the faltering economy in late 2008 and into 2009 and beyond.”
New Hampshire: In Merrimack, reports that after 11 years Swan Chocolates reduced their cafe hours to the public. The owners said they needed to get back to creating new eats, and they can’t do that while running a full time retail eatery.
New York: After 62 years the owners of Hoffman’s Playland amusement park announced they are shutting down, and redeveloping the property. In NYC, Williams Lea Corporate Information Solutions warned it will shutdown by the end of September, a least 41 jobs lost. In Jamaica (at the JFK airport), LSG Sky Chefs warned it will shutdown by January 2015, at least 139 jobs lost and 200 jobs to be transfered! In Suffern, Switzerland based evil legal drugs pusher Novartis warned they will be shutting down between December 2014 and sometime in 2015, at least 83 jobs lost.
North Carolina: In High Point, La-Z-Boy announced they are shutting down their Lea Industries kids furniture factory by the end of 2014, at least 100 jobs lost! UNC Health Care reports that Obama Care has lost them $4-million in revenue! They are now $8-million behind on their budget! UNC Health Care administrators say they are still owed $15-million from the state and federal governments!
Ohio: In Urbana, God refused to stop the British empire’s Christian Salvation Army from shutting down their thrift store. Administrators at the HQ in Cincinnati said their thrift store will shutdown in November, and they told their local Urbana administrators the issue is not open for discussion.
Oregon: The child prison camp known as Hillcrest Youth Correctional Facility might be shutdown, due to crashing numbers of child inmates (but isn’t that good news?).
Pennsylvania: California University is blaming DSS (what I call Disappearing Student Syndrome) for eliminating 30 jobs. The university lost 3.2% of its student body at the beginning of the new school year.
South Carolina: In Columbia, the Belk store shutdown in the Dutch Square mall.
Tennessee: Massive food producer Cargill announced they’re shutting down a Memphis corn mill in January 2015, 440 jobs lost! Cargill A-holes, I mean administrators claim the mill is “underutilized”.
Texas: Comcast SportsNet Houston could laid off 75 employees, if a judge approves their sale to DirecTV and AT&T. The 75 employees make up almost three quarters of the staff. In Houston, oil industry company HighMount Exploration & Production warned it is shutting down and will kill off at least 35 jobs by November. Austin based pawn shop chain store EZCorp revealed it will kill off an undisclosed number of jobs. Company administrators say they must “right size” their pawn operations due to the bad economy. They currently employ more than 7-thousand people across the U.S.
Virginia: In Richmond, after 38 years Buddy’s Place announced it will shutdown in January 2015. The owner blames the greedy landlord for demanding more rent.
Washington: Reports say Redmond based Microsoft will begin a 2nd round of layoffs. The computer company already killed off 13-thousand jobs in its 1st round of layoffs! Reports say most of the 2nd round of job killing will directly affect employees of Nokia, which Microsoft took over in April. Nokia is now called Microsoft Mobile Oy. In Yakima, after 29 years Off the Record record and CD store shutdown.
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 shutdown. It doesn’t count people who get a severance for being laid off.