Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
Arizona: After two years the non-profit Tucson Reptile Rescue warns it will shutdown due to crashing donations and crashing adoptions of rescued pets.
California: Monterey based CTB/McGraw-Hill laid off at least 33 Ryan Ranch HQ employees, due to selling off ‘key assets’ to Minnesota’s Data Recognition Corporation. In Oakland, after 40 years the owners of Bay Wolf restaurant announced they will shut it down in August. They want to retire, so they’re selling the property. In Berkeley, after 40 years the newspaper Poetry Flash warns it will shutdown at the end of the year due to a 27% increase in rent.
Connecticut: In East Hampton, popular restaurant Governor’s Tavern shutdown due to water problems that an uncoperative landlord won’t fix.
Florida: In Miami Beach, the restaurant L’echon Brasserie ended its Hilton Cabana Hotel operation.
Idaho: In another sign of a failed state Republicans have successfully forced all state taxpayers to fund their $2-million USD GOP only Primary: “It’s a small, basically private election, and the Republican leaders in Idaho have succeeded in getting the taxpayer to fund that private election.”-Dave Finkelnburg, Bannock County Democrats, interviewed by KIFI
Illinois: “Homie don’t play that!” Obama stooge Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago Public Schools announced 1-thousand 4-hundred job cuts after being forced to make a $634-million ObamaCare retirement fund payment! The highly edumacated idjiot golutes borrowed the money to make the retirement fund payment, but says it’s coming outta the hides of 1-thousand 4-hundred employees who will now become unemployed! The Chicago Teachers Union directly blames the Obama regime appointed school board: “This is a handpicked school board. It’s an appointed school board. The responsibility for this goes to the person who runs the school board, which is the mayor. These are the financial policies this mayor has pursued over the course of the years, where they’ve consistently left revenue on the table.”-Jesse Sharkey, vice president
But wait, there’s more! Chicago based employment analyst Challenger, Gray & Christmas says publicly announced layoffs hit a five years high in June 2015, up 43% from June 2014! At least 45-thousand jobs were announced dead on arrival in June! And then there’s Eastern Illinois University which says they must kill jobs due to a 28% crash in enrollment since 2007. The Connect Transit Transportation (formerly known as Bloomington-Normal Public Transit System) laid off employees, union members protested saying “Connect Transit….has become very toxic, hostile, and harassing” as well as “The problems are not changing; they’re getting worse.”
Indiana: Missouri based Silgan Plastics (aka Silgan Containers, aka Silgan Holdings) laying off at least 70 people from its Ligonier factory, in August. The company has been eliminating jobs across the United States since at least 2013.
Kansas: In Hutchinson, the New Beginnings Overflow Emergency Lodging (Noel Lodge) shutdown due to loss of federal taxpayer funding (called a federal grant). In Topeka, Books and More shutting down by the middle of July.
Michigan: Yet again, Farmington Public Schools increased their layoffs, this time by 51, bringing the total to at least 231 for the 2015-16 school year! In Kalamazoo, sandwich shop Panini Express shutting down their City Center drive thru window because it “was hindering opportunities to expanded production for larger groups.” After 95 years (surviving the Great deflationary Depression and numerous recession) the Wayne County Library system died. Cities within Wayne County will have to run their own libraries.
MInnesota: In Duluth, the Department of Human Services shutting down the heroine addict treatment center Lake Superior Treatment Center in September, supposedly for code violations.
Nevada: In Las Vegas, the Book & Stage sportsbook and music venue shutting down by the middle of July.
New Hampshire: The Derry Fire Station 4 shutdown due to lack of money. The city administrators also eliminated four vacant positions and cut hours for firefighters and police: “We never thought we’d see this day, but it’s actually going to happen.”-Michael Gagnon, Fire Chief
New Jersey: God refuses to stop ‘his’ Holy Family School in Lakewood, and ‘his’ Saint Denis School in Manasquan, from shutting down. It’s blamed on what I call DSS.
New Mexico: In Las Cruces, atheists and homosexual marriage are being blamed for the shutdown of the First Baptist Church’s daycare center. God’s church administrators said they don’t want the government forcing them to hire “homosexuals and atheists”, but you have to blame the money grubbing false christians for violating the 1st Amendment and taking government taxpayer money to run their daycare: “When the government gives you money, they have the right to tell you how to run certain aspects of your organization. We understand that. It’s not one particular group…it’s the fact they get to dictate to us, across the board, how to run our organization or different organization or ministries.”-David Burrows, church leader just now waking up to the fact that they must “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s…..” (Matthew 22:21)
New York: In Yonkers, Consumer Reports laid off 17 employees, in connection with ending publication of its magazine. It should be noted that the current president of Consumer Reports used to work for the Ford Foundation. Union reps say the company’s administrators and lawyers are violating the union contracts.
North Carolina: The state Department of Commerce reports that at least 3-thousand 5-hundred people lost their jobs in the first half of 2015! Youngsville based Xerium Technologies announced it is shutting down its Quebec, Canada, machined cloth factory. The U.S. company is moving operations to socialist Europe saying employee costs there are half what they are in Canada! News reports say the Vernon Park Mall is now almost empty after a year of store shutdowns: “There was a lot more stores but now there’s nothing here.”-Jermica Mumford, mall rat
Oklahoma: Employment analysts with Region Track warn that another 11-thousand oil industry jobs will be eliminated in The Sooner State! So far Oklahoma has lost 5-thousand 4-hundred petroleum industry jobs! The East Side Elementary School in Okmulgee shutting down due to a one third drop in enrollment and a $1-million shortfall: “To save that kind of money, you have to do something drastic and that’s what this is. It’s a necessary evil.”-Tod Williams, school superintendent
Pennsylvania: Connellsville Area School Board jacked up property taxes, took out a $5-million loan (tax anticipation note) from PNC Bank and killed 11 jobs. News reports say Drexel University laid off “several dozens” of employees due to what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome. It’s been revealed that last week Mondelez International quietly shutdown their Roosevelt Boulevard and Byberry Road bakery, eliminating 350 jobs overnight! Mondelez International makes iconic products for Nabisco, Standard Brands and Kraft. The massive bakery is now for sale. In Lansdowne, after 85 years the Mar-Win Market grocery store shutdown, 35 jobs lost: “It’s definitely the economy. Everybody’s trying to watch their pennies…..It’s a multitude of everything.”-Kirk Fuessinger, owner
South Carolina: What construction market recovery? Engineering company Fluor revealed it recently eliminated 15 jobs in Greenville.
Tennessee: After 36 years the Stock-Yard restaurant shutdown.
Washington: Redmond based Microsoft announced yet more layoffs. 1-thousand 2-hundred jobs culled as Micrsoft sells its advertising service (bing ads) to AOL! More job losses are expected as Microsoft plans to sell more divisions. From July 2014 to June 2015 Microsoft eliminated at least 18-thousand jobs!
Wisconsin: The state Department of Workforce Development reports that WARNs issued in the first six months of 2015 have exceeded the number of WARNs issued for all of 2014! It’s no thanks to the Right to Work you over Scott Walker state government slashing & burning another 6,685 jobs (in 2014 they killed 6,186 and in 2012 they killed 6,511)! Add that to the private sector job culling already announced and The Badger State will lose more than 13-thousand jobs in 2015!
30 June 2015: Restaurant owner chooses Greece over United States!
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.”