Arizona: Small Planet Bakery shutting down their Tucson shop right before Thanksgiving after 41 years: “…we haven’t been making money… At one point back in the late ’80s, we were in 36 grocery stores … In May we cut it down to five stores…”-Lucy Mitchell, co-owner
California: San Francisco based Twitter warned of mass layoffs in the next week, according to “unnamed sources”. In South Lake Tahoe, The Cork and More wine store shutdown after 39 years due to nobody wanting to buy the business.
Florida: Paper products mill WestRock laid off 131 people, blaming crashing sales!
Failed State Illinois: In Bloomington, God refuses to stop the shutdown of his Catholic Workers created food pantry for low income families Clair House. After almost 37 years their last meal will be the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday. As an example of the dumbing down of America, the director claims the food pantry has been serving the poor for “five decades”, yet also said Clair House was created in December 1978, do the math that’s not five decades.
Indiana: Aaron’s Rent-A-Center quietly shutdown four rental stores last week! No reason was given, but in the 3rd quarter of 2014 they shutdown 44 stores due to “lack of performance”. In April of this year Reuters revealed that Aaron’s administrators have fought off several takeover attempts since 2014. Could these latest store shutdowns have anything to due with the recently revealed fact that Aaron’s just spent $700-thousand USD buying new property in Pennsylvania?
Iowa: In Grimes, after 26 years family owned Longview Golf Center forced to shutdown due to “new development”.
Maryland: In Elkton, after 12 years Terrapin Station Winery shutdown: “Mother Nature took her toll on our vineyards and we were not able to generate enough investment to get us rolling again.”-Janet and Morris Zwick, owners
Minnesota: The privately owned Moorehead Sears Hometown shutting down by Wednesday. The owner gave up trying to sell the franchise store.
Missouri: In Columbia, Children’s Orchard used clothing store shutdown. After 20 years the franchise owner decided not to renew her contract due to the company being under new ownership.
New Jersey: After 18 years Sears Holdings shutting down their Roselle Sears Hardware store due to “landlord issues”. Apparently all employees will be offered transfers.
New Mexico: University of New Mexico eliminating 1-hundred jobs, blaming non-stop DSS (what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome)!
New York: Troubled NYC based law firm Milberg laid off 32 employees. The law firm has been struggling ever since its co-founders pled guilty to an illegal kickback scheme.
North Carolina: Iconic gun maker Remington laid off 41 people and warned of 21 more job cuts soon. The job cuts took place in tiny Rockingham County, which is dealing with more than 3-hundred surprise job losses in the past month!
Pennsylvania: What building construction recovery? McKees Rocks based insulation maker Geo V. Hamilton now chapter 11 bankrupt busted blaming years of lawsuits over cancer causing asbestos. And industrial wire maker Wire Company Holdings-New York Wire also chapter 11 bankrupt busted, blaming almost $16-million USD in debts.
Vermont: Bankrupt busted Massachusetts based City Sports shutting down their Burlington store, 20 jobs lost.
Washington DC: Federal Bureau of Prisons will stop offering pig products to prisoners, directly impacting the pork industry in the United States. Realize that the United States has more people in prisons than any other country and you’ll understand how this will adversely affect the industrial pig killers. Prison administrators say prisoners are refusing to eat pork. Is this a sign that the majority of prisoners are Jews and Muslims, or maybe the prison kitchens don’t know how to cook it? Prisons administrators were asked if there’s been an increase in incarceration of Jews or Muslims and the administrators refused to comment! The pork industry is demanding a better explanation than prisoners just don’t like pork.
08 October 2015: “I hate it!”
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.”