Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
Qatari based Al-Jazeera news network eliminating 1-thousand jobs around the world, including the United States! It’s blamed on oil prices.
Florida: After 11 years the Big E’s Gourmet Coffee & Sweets shutdown because the owner has been offered more money to manage a Starbucks. Local news reports say the owner will make in one year at the Starbucks what he was making in four years running his own restaurant!
Idaho: The Idaho Water Resource Board is returning a $4-million USD investment made by four large water districts into the Hagerman Valley pipeline project because several smaller water districts decided to take on a loan to cover the costs. Apparently it has something to do with water access rights issues and the ongoing drought, as usual Idaho news sources weren’t very good at explaining it. Amalgamated Sugar, in Twin Falls, reports record level sugar beet harvested under contract. Idaho is the second largest producer of sugar beets for sugar production in the U.S., the record harvest should keep the prices for White Satin brand sugar down.
Illinois: More proof the economy is not going to recover anytime soon. After hundreds of layoffs this year heavy vehicle maker Caterpillar announced another 10-thousand jobs, at the very least, will be eliminated by the end of 2018! Administrators also indicated the number of layoffs could end up being higher than 10-thousand! It’s blamed on crashing and burning sales (three years in a row). In Obama homietown Chicago, Obama stooge Rahm Emanuel is threatening massive police and firefighter layoffs if residents aren’t willing to be raped up the ass with massive tax increases! This is on top of the 5-thousand Chicago Public School layoffs! Reports say the Obama regime wants to jack up Chicago tax revenues by $588-million USD over four years! By the way, school employees threaten massive civil “chaos” if the Obama regime goes through with the massive CPS layoffs!
Iowa: What housing market recovery? Too Big to Jail Owens Financing laying off 3-hundred people at its Waterloo mortgage operations!
Michigan: In Ann Arbor, after 20 years the S3 Safe Sex Store shutdown. The owner blames the internet for her crashing sales.
Minnesota: In Minneapolis, Mattie’s restaurant shutdown. Four Planet Beach spas suddenly shutdown, the franchise owners now bankrupt busted claiming they have only $11,200 in assets compared to $1.4-million in debts! In Lake Park, after 60 years the Strandvik Lutheran Church shutting down by January 2016. It’s blamed on The Rapture, I mean the membership has dwindled to about ten people showing up on Sundays.
New Mexico: Texas based ConocoPhilips confirmed that employees in The Land of Enchantment will be part of the oil company’s plan to eliminate 1-thousand 8-hundred jobs!
New York: Oyster Bay based Cablevision is now owned by the French Jews! News reports called it a “surprise move”. Get ready for mass layoffs as the new owner said Cablevison has “many layers of highly paid people and this will change.” In the Bronx, Key Food shutting down its Soundview grocery store in October after the greedy property owner revoked the lease.
Ohio: The Firestone Park IGA grocery store shutting down in October, saying it’s not worth it to renew the lease. It’s blamed on competition and increased operating costs caused by ObamaCare insurance.
South Carolina: The Blind Tiger Pub in Charleston shutdown and for sale. The owner can’t renew the lease.
South Dakota: After 81 years (surviving the Great deflationary Depression and numerous recessions) the family owned Sitting Bull Crystal Caverns shutdown and up for sale. The current owner blames it on the fact that he seems to be the last in the family that still wants to operate the popular tourist attraction.
Texas: In Denison, after 82 years (surviving the Great deflationary Depression and numerous recessions) the VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) shutdown. Despite the ongoing illegal and undeclared War on Terror the VFW shutdown is blamed on lack of veterans! In Austin, the Lakeview Apartments being torn down by the end of the month. Residents were given a one month notice to vacate by greedy property developers, some residents had just moved in. It’s being replaced by a new apartment complex targeted towards rich people.
Virginia: In Alexandria, the Del Ray Variety store shutting down by the end of the year. A reason has yet to be given.
Washington: Norway based solar company REC Silicon warned it might shutdown its Moses Lake factory, eliminating 4-hundred jobs, if the dumb United States and China can’t stop their trade disputes!
Washington DC: The Department of Defense is investigating why military personnel were allowed to charge taxpayers for sex and gambling. This is not the first time taxpayer funded government credit cards were used for such things. The Inspector General found that between 2013 and 2014 $1-million USD were spent at casinos and on ‘adult entertainment’!
23 September 2015: “We just can’t get the…business to function.”
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed
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.”