Incomplete list of announced closings and layoffs:
AOL (American On [Off ?] Line) announced more layoffs, this time as many as 500 Patch Editors!
The biggest dairy producer in the United States, Texas based Dean Foods, announced they are closing as many as 12 dairies by mid 2014. They blame increased competition and declining sales, but that sounds far fetched for a company accused of being a monopoly! Dean Foods also operations in Belgium, France, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Dean Foods was taken over by Suiza Foods (the original Suiza Dairy is in Puerto Rico). Suiza then changed their name to Dean Foods and began taking over dairies throughout the United States. In 2010 the attorney generals of Wisconsin and Michigan charged Dean Foods with creating a monopoly. In 2011 a law suit accused Dean Foods of falsifying ingredients on Horizon milk labeled as organic. In 2012, it was revealed that Dean Foods was behind a California proposition that would have allowed companies to avoid disclosing to consumers if their food products contained GMO ingredients. Reports say Dean Foods owns operations in the following U.S. states: Alabama, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, North Dakota, South Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Wisconsin. Suiza/Dean Foods’ biggest client is Walmart.
Colorado: Legal drug pusher, Array Biopharma, laid off about 50 people. It’s because a deal with Amgen, to market their new drug to treat type 2 diabetes, fell through. Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains closed two health centers. Officials blame it on ten years of no public funding.
Florida: The Florida Virtual School laid off 802 online teachers!!! It’s blamed on a 32% decline in student enrollment, compared to last year. I’ve asked this before; where are all the students going? (leaving the country?)
Indiana: Purdue University laid off seven faculty members at its Calumet campus. 12 teachers were forced to retire early. Four assistant professors have been warned that this school year is their last year of employment. Two assistant professors were told that they will be laid off in 2015. School officials blamed a crash in students signing up for core classes, which is a sign that people are realizing that higher education does not result in finding good paying jobs that can help them payoff their student loans.
Missouri: In Affton, Red Racks Thrift Store closed down. The owner would not respond to questions from local news media.
New York: In DeWitt, the privately funded Manlius Pebble Hill school laid off 12 employees. According to reports, school officials intentionally decided to reduce student enrollment by 40, thus justifying the layoffs.
North Carolina: WakeMed closed down two nursing homes. 99 jobs lost. Another 14 jobs are being outsourced. Company officials stated they’ve always relied on Medicare payments, never making a profit, but now Obama Care is the straw that’s breaking their back: “We have always lost money in the tens of millions, and it has gotten worse over time, these other financial cuts to the healthcare environment and the healthcare reimbursement structure right now, we can no longer afford to sustain those kinds of losses.”-Elaine Rohlik
Ohio: FirstEnergy laid off 250 people! The electric power company is also reducing health care benefits to employees. The company is changing its retirement program for employees. Company officials blame it on increasing government environmental regulations, and declining revenues.
Oregon: In Coos Bay, a couple of weeks after Sears Holdings announced they will close the Kmart, local news media revealed the store was averaging $4 million USD in sales every year. At the end of July, greedy Sears Holdings officials had stated they were closing the store because it was not making enough money!
Pennsylvania: In Upper Saint Clair, Too Big to Jail Bank of America laid off 209 employees! The evil bank officials admitted that the home mortgage disaster has reached a point where it’s not worth it for banks to continue stealing people’s homes!
South Carolina: Too Big to Jail JP Morgan Chase laying off 450 people between now and mid 2014. The evil bank officials admitted that the home mortgage disaster has reached a point where it’s not worth it for banks to continue stealing people’s homes!
Tennessee: In Nashville, public relations company, Katcher Vaughn & Bailey, ceased to exist. The problem was that most of their clients are in the failing health care industry.