Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
Arizona: Copper miner Asarco shutting down Pinal County mining operations, 211 jobs lost by the end of October! It’s blamed on copper prices crashing by 40% since 2011.
California: Washington based Starbucks is shutting down about 22 “popular” La Boulange bakery stores across The Golden State, in September. One San Francisco TV news source said many La Boulange employees are rebelling against Starbucks by rejecting job offers to work directly for the evil corporate coffee chain store. Delivery drivers for Albertsons and Vons grocery stores reporting mass layoffs and work hour cutbacks as a result of the Cerberus owned Albertsons takeover of Safeway: “I have a wife and three kids, and we live on a half acre of horse property in Mira Loma. We just had to sell our three horses and three pigs, next it will be the Harley.”-Jeff Dean, driver who had his hours reduced from full time to part time
Colorado: Texas based EVRAZ Rocky Mountain Steel laid off 12 people at their mill in Pueblo.
Florida: Fuel delivery company Bunkers International now chapter 11 bankrupt busted after Too Big to Jail PNC Bank cut off debt financing (a move known as De-leveraging).
Iowa: Food giant Cargill shutting down its Animal Nutrition customer service and sales office in Coralville blaming crashing sales, 15 to 28 jobs affected.
Kansas: What automotive industry recovery? Changes being made at GM’s (General Motors) Fairfax Malibu car factory will result in 380 parts suppliers losing their jobs; Inteva Products 180 jobs and Woodbridge Sequencing Center 2-hundred jobs!
Massachusetts: In Worchester, iconic 32 years old Bicycle Alley shutting down soon, the owner wants to retire and said “This was planned for awhile.”
New Mexico: Gold and copper miner Freeport McMoRan reducing output at its Tyrone Mine, 210 jobs lost between now and 2016!
New York: Proof of a bad economy and mass exodus from The Empire State, as Westchester County reports a $6-million USD drop in sales tax revenues for the first six months of 2015! In typical failed state flailing county administrators are not only going to deal with it by jacking up taxes, but they’re laying off hundreds of employees! 158 county employees were bribed into voluntarily quitting (buyouts), but administrators warn that if tax revenues continue to crash more employees would be let go! In Allentown, after ten years outdoor La Tee Da Cafe shutdown, the owners said “…we’re ready to do something else.” In Ogdensburg, 11 jobs lost suddenly after the eight years old A&W-Long John Silver’s restaurant on Champlain Street shutdown without warning: “The owner said they aren’t making enough to keep things open.”-Josh Hitsman, manager
Ohio: CVS Pharmacy eliminating 232 Ominicare jobs starting at the end of October! It should be noted that Omnicare got a 2011 tax incentive in exchange for promising to create 630 jobs by 2022. After 57 seasons taxpayer owned Huntington Playhouse in Bay Village shutting down right after Xmas.
Washington: After 16 years Edmonds Maytag Laundromat shutdown by the greedy property owner of the Salish Crossing: “I could see the writing on the wall and knew these changes were coming, but I really didn’t expect things to move so fast.”-David Kenyon, given 30 days to clear out “…76 washers, dryers and other machines, get customers to pick up their finished jobs…”
Washington DC: Riyad Market forced to shutdown in November by the property owner and the federal Attorney General. The Obama regime used a 2014 drug bust at the store as the reason.
28 August 2015: Restaurant shuts down with no warning, takes employees’ paychecks.
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.”