Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
Arizona: New York based perfume maker Coty eliminating 205 jobs at its philosophy believe in miracles operations in Phoenix!
Arkansas: New rumors say Bentonville based Walmart-Sam’s Club eliminating 1-thousand HQ jobs by November! They already eliminated 50 HQ jobs back in February. In June reports said Walmart was going to charge manufactures for the ‘privilege’ of having Walmart warehouse their products in Walmart stores! Back in May news reports out of California said Walmart eliminated 2-thousand 2-hundred jobs in The Golden State! About 429 jobs were lost in Florida! If Walmart is the ‘bellwether’ of the U.S. economy then there ain’t no recovery.
California: In Lake Tahoe, after two years Tom Wohrman’s Sports is shutting down and moving to Big Bear Lake. In San Jose, Maxim Integrated issued a shutdown WARN, 150 jobs lost by March 2016! In Monterey, McGraw Hill Education issued a layoff WARN, 137 jobs lost by the end of August! In Palo Alto, Hewlett Packard (HP) issued a late WARN revealing they laid off 65 people back in the middle of June. Also in Palo Alto, ObamaCare forcing Bosch Healthcare Systems to shutdown by the end of September, 55 jobs lost. In Carlsbad, ObamaCare medical device taxes forced medical device maker Alphatec Spine to layoff at least 99 employees! ObamaCare forcing Long Beach Memorial Medical Center to layoff 88 employees by August. Boeing issued yet another layoff WARN, 56 jobs lost in Long Beach by September. In El Segundo, tax-sucking ‘security’ contractor Leidos issued a layoff WARN for September, 72 jobs lost. In Los Angeles, Encompass Digital Media issued a shutdown WARN for September, 41 jobs lost. Mountain View based Symantec continues to eliminate jobs, this time 60 people will become jobless by the beginning of August. In Santa Maria, “customer care, technical support, billing inquiry, inbound sales and retention” Fusion Contacts Centers issued a shutdown WARN, 50 jobs lost in August. Tech company KLA-Tencor issued a mass layoff WARN for their Milpitas ops, 213 jobs lost in September! A major utility company known for replacing U.S. citizens with foreign workers, Southern California Edison, issued yet another WARN. This time they’re shutting down their San Clemente ops by September, at least 1-hundred jobs lost! In Wilmington, State Fish Company shutting down by September, 76 jobs lost. In San Diego, Bridgepoint Education laying off 22 people by September. Also in San Diego, Washington based Microsoft laying off 129 people by September! In San Francisco, once again British empire based U.S. tax-sucker BAE Systems issued layoff WARNs after the fact, revealing they laid off 82 people at the end of June. Washington based Starbucks shutting down two Bay Bread operations in September. The closure of Bay Bread’s South San Francisco and San Fernando bakeries will result in 171 people becoming jobless! In Brentwood, it was discovered by local newsies that Cafe Röckenwagner quietly shutdown two weeks ago.
Iowa: The Ashford University shutting down its Clinton campus in May 2016, due to what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome: “Ashford’s Clinton campus has been unable to resolve its significant and ongoing enrollment shortfall, a trend that is especially troubling in today’s highly competitive environment.”-Gregory Geoffroy, board of trustees.
Minnesota: What automotive industry recovery? Maker of cabs for heavy vehicles (and consoles for computers), Crenlo announced 30 people will be laid off by the end of the month. It’s blamed on crashing sales.
New York: Mitt Romney wunderkind Staples shutting down yet another store, this time their Altamont Avenue store in Schenectady. In Staten Island, after 54 years restaurant supplier Twin Supply blaming the internet for the demise of their last brick-n-mortar store. The owners should know, they began switching to internet sales in 2000: “In 2002 we took our trucks off the road, we sold two buildings and began to concentrate on the web. A lot of major corporations, and major hospitals are our customers.”
Ohio: The University of Akron announced a three years plan to eliminate at least 215 jobs! What I call Disappearing Students Syndrome has caused the university to lose $60-million USD. Another factor is the skyrocketing costs of employee healthcare costs caused by ObamaCare. Administrators say they will renegotiate healthcare benefits with employees, meaning it will cost the employees more money for the same benefits.
Pennsylvania: In Ridley, Boeing revealed it laid off 49 people back in the middle of June.
Tennessee: In Nashville, after 19 years the bar stool capital of Middle Tennessee, Norbert’s Home Decor, shutting down in August.
Texas: In San Antonio, after 34 years advertising agency Bromley shutdown. The owner wants to get a PhD in the shopping behavior of sheeple.
Virginia: Tax-sucker Newport News Shipbuilding warned employees of massive layoffs over the next year and a half, due to crashing orders from the U.S. Navy.
Washington: After nearly 70 years the Merry Go Round children’s store shutting down. The current owner says something sinister happened to the U.S. economy in 2006: “It literally is just a completely different place now. Consumers these days are completely different than they’ve ever been, and the industry is tougher than it’s ever been. It was a whole lot easier to be a small business owner up to 2006.”-Molly Pressey
09 July 2015: No “fairy tale ending” just an “Irish wake”!
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) no longer issues mass layoff reports: “On March 1, 2013, President Obama ordered into effect the across-the- board spending cuts (commonly referred to as sequestration) required by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as amended. Under the order, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) must cut its current budget by more than $30 million, 5 percent of the current 2013 appropriation, by September 30, 2013. In order to help achieve these savings and protect core programs, the BLS will eliminate two programs, including Mass Layoff Statistics, and all ‘measuring green jobs’ products. This news release is the final publication of monthly mass layoff survey data.”