Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
Alabama: Georgia based EarthLink laid off 110 people in Anniston and Arab!
California: It’s being revealed that the thousands of jobs held by U.S. citizens, that Southern California Edison killed off (and continues to kill off), actually went to LEGAL immigrants with H-1B visas! In Sacramento, Practice Yoga shutdown. The owner, Jim Cahill, blamed “The business climate and rents in downtown don’t support small enterprise.”
Connecticut: What housing market recovery? In Wallingford, Acuity Brands Lighting issued a WARN saying it will shutdown in April, 93 jobs lost. It’s part of the company’s consolidation plans. In Fairfield, after 82 years (surviving the Great deflationary Depression and numerous recessions) Blinn’s toy store shutdown. The co-owner said the economy is worse now than in 2008: “Things were going pretty normal until about two years ago. Two years ago was bad, but the last year was just terrible!”-Mark Crofutt
Florida: After more than 20 years the Myrtle Beach Flea Market shutdown. The owner blamed the suck-ass economy: “I’ve lost my butt here in the last five years. I lost my life savings and everything I made here in the six or eight years it was good……You’ll starve to damn death on local business!”-Jim Lee
Idaho: What housing market recovery? Washington based wood products company Plum Creek Timber announced it will sell-off its Meridian remanufacturing factory in March, at least 61 jobs lost. I did not find any WARN issued by the company.
Indiana: At the South Bend International Airport, Towne Air Freight was sold-off to Tennessee based Forward Air, layoffs will be next.
Iowa: In Muscatine, Kirlin’s Hallmark shutdown: “…in today’s challenging economic climate, we sometimes have to take the difficult step of closing a location.”
Louisiana: The Gov’na warned that more than 1-hundred state parks employees could become jobless due to crashing tax revenues. The Pelican State must cut spending by $103.5-million USD before the end of June! The Gov’na also warned of massive layoffs for the university-higher education system, saying there’s a $1.6-billion shortfall!
Massachusetts: Legal drugs pusher Synta Pharmaceuticals announced it will layoff 20% of its employees. They laid off workers last year.
Michigan: Ciolino Fruit and Vegetable Market shutdown its Monroe store, saying it wasn’t worth it to renew the lease. In Northville, decades old Starting Gate Saloon restaurant shutdown and sold-off.
Missouri: What housing market recovery? Ten years old Town & Country Masonry and Tuckpointing now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.
Nebraska: After 19 years the Herbs & More store shutdown. The owner is retiring due to massive competition.
New York: In NYC, GL Bus Lines issued a WARN saying they will layoff 149 people in March! In Hauppauge, God refuses to stop Obama Care from forcing ‘his’ Catholic Health Services from issuing a WARN saying they will shutdown their Home Support Services in May, at least 40 jobs lost.
North Carolina: The new Brazil based owners of iconic Chiquita is shutting down the Charlotte HQ beginning in April, between 262 and 350 jobs lost! State and local administrators are demanding Chiquita pay back all the tax incentives it got. Brazilian Cutrale and Safra group took over Chiquita late last year.
Ohio: In Lancaster, boiler cleaner Diamond Power International laid off 23 employees. Union reps said the company is contracting out operations, which could result in more layoffs of in-house employees. Evil Texas based fracking company GoFrac announced it will exit the Utica shale fields near Cambridge, after buying 90 acres and promising to hire 250 people!
Pennsylvania: British empire Canada based clothing retailer Lord & Taylor announced it will shutdown its Wilkes-Barre Township store. Company administrators blame their own successful internet sales! The store is being closed so they can expand their warehouse to meet internet sales demands.
South Dakota: Michigan based grocery store owner SpartanNash announced they will shutdown their Rapid City food distribution center in April, 49 jobs lost. Company administrators say the bad economy is forcing them to consolidate warehouses.
Tennessee: In Nashville, after 70 years Travel shutdown. The owner of the travel agency blames competition and health problems.
Texas: Maryland based Apex Tools announced they are shutting down their Garland factory and moving production to South Carolina, 261 jobs affected! In Orange, after 40 years a Conn’s department store shutdown. The administrators of the 120 years old company said the economy isn’t strong enough to support all of their stores. Infamous fracking company Halliburton upped its kill-off of jobs, from 1-thousand to 65-hundred around the World! Ignorant main stream news media blamed crashing oil prices, but guess what? It’s really because of the Obama regime imposed sanctions on Russia, ebola/civil war turmoil in west Africa, plus their takeover of Baker Hughes. Oil company Forestar Group announced it will shutdown their Fort Worth office, but don’t blame oil prices, company administrators said the decision to halt their north Texas production was pushed on them by their ‘investors’! Fort Worth based RadioShack has made public a massive list of 1784 stores across the United States that will be shutdown by the end of March!
Wisconsin: Mitt Romney’s evil Massachusetts based wunderkind Staples announced it will layoff 53 people at their Oak Creek Tech Solutions operations. In Janesville, industrial supplier Grainger laying off 30 people outright, as well as transfering 130 jobs out-o-country to Panama beginning in October! Reports say it’s just the “first wave” of layoffs-transfers! Too Big to Jail Bank Mutual announced it will shutdown seven offices, because it expects to lose $1.5-million!
05 – 06 February 2015: Staples kills off 1-thousand stores!
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.