Incomplete list of announced closings and layoffs:
California: What housing market recovery? Property management company Topa laid off at least 13 employees. Fuel refiner Philips 66 continued its refinery shutdowns, this time 222 people laid off! School bus contractor Atlantic Express laid off 467 people! Berkeley Heartlab laid off nine people. RAS Medical laid off 43 employees. In San Diego, Phil’s BBQ shutdown, 144 jobs lost! Moondoggies laid off 52 employees. Legal drugs pusher Optimer laid off 10 employees. In Playa Vista, video game maker Electronic Arts (EA) laid off 59 employees. In Thousand Oaks, biopharmaceutical company Amgen laid off 68 employees. In Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Convention Center laid off 621 people! Delaware Hospitality laid off 42 employees. Shoedazzle.com laid off 52 employees. In San Francisco, Goodby Silverstein & Partners laid off 47 employees. In Simi Valley, Avnet Integrated laid off 68 employees. In Gardena, Chromalloy shutdown, 108 jobs lost! In Burbank, health insurance company Kaiser Foundation laid off 31 employees. In Irvine, Labcorp laid off six employees. Insurance company Metlife laid off 53 employees. Rushmore Loans shutdown, 101 jobs lost! Suntrust Morgage laid off 89 employees. In Sunnyvale, taxsucker Lockheed Martin laid off 70 employees. In Loma Linda, ObamaCare killed 177 jobs with Loma Linda University Medical! In Rosemead, Monterey Care Center laid off 100 people! In Pacoima, Natural Balance Pet Foods laid off 92 employees. In Vacaville, legal drugs pusher Novartis laid off 36 employees. In South San Francisco, legal drugs pusher Onyx laid off 58 employees.
Connecticut: In Bridgeport, KGI laid off 98 employees.
Florida: In Boca Raton, Global Tower Partners laid off 15 employees. In Orlando, Bostwick Laboratories laid off 19 employees. In Kissimmee, Arabian Nights dinner show shutdown, 224 jobs lost!
Idaho: In Meridian, taxsucker pistol holster maker ATK/Blackhawk! laid off 75 employees. Their biggest customers were the U.S. military and cops. In Caldwell, food company Simplot shutdown, 262 jobs lost!
Indiana: New Age Healthcare shutdown, 100 jobs lost! In Terre Haute, Multi Packing Solutions shutdown, 150 jobs lost!
New York: In Buffalo, Will Poultry shutdown, 113 jobs lost! In Gouverneur, ObamaCare shutdown E.J. Noble Hospital, 210 jobs lost! In NYC, Focus Features shutdown, 42 jobs lost. Bloomberg Law also shutdown, 95 jobs lost. Kaye Scholer also shutdown, 48 jobs lost. In Rouses Point, legal drugs maker Pfizer shutdown, 47 jobs lost. In Utica, Xerox shutdown, 31 jobs lost. In Vestal, Eco International shutdown, 82 jobs lost. In Walden, Circor Flow Technologies shutdown, 55 jobs lost. In Brentwood, Too Big to Jail Capital One shutdown, 26 jobs lost. In Skaneateles Falls, Clear Edge Filtration shutdown, 79 jobs lost.
Ohio: In Bedford, medical supply company Boehringer Ingelheim/Ben Venue Laboratories shutdown, 1500 jobs lost! The company is now ranked 7th out of the top ten biggest job killers in the U.S.! company officials blame crashing sales.
South Carolina: In Walterboro, South Carolina Electric & Gas shutdown, 67 jobs lost.
Tennessee: In Chattanooga, Team Centers shutdown. In Knoxville, Luxottica Optical shutdown, 303 jobs lost! In Martin, IFCO shutdown, 40 jobs lost. In Memphis, Pinnacle Airlines laid off 491 people! In Lenior City, SECO Tools shutdown, 72 jobs lost. Also, ObamaCare shutdown Odyssey Medical.
Virginia: In Grundy, Minova laid off 65 employees. What automotive industry recovery? In Radford, metal maker for the automotive industry, Grede, laid off 264 people! This after years of taking over competitors and expanding operations. It’s blamed on declining revenues and a destructive furnace fire. In Petersburg, medical device maker Boehringer Ingelheim laid off 63 employees.
Washington: In Bellevue, Pacific Construction Systems shutdown, 103 jobs lost!
Wisconsin: In Green Bay, APAC Customer Services shutdown, 282 jobs lost!
Challenger, Gray, and Christmas reports 30,623 “planned” job cuts were announced in December 2013.
21-25 December 2013. Largest nursing home in Wisconsin shutdown by ObamaCare!
The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) doesn’t count the hundreds of layoffs involving less than 50 people each, in its mass layoff reports. It also doesn’t count all the little ‘mom & pop’ businesses that shut down.
“Our ideals and principles, as well as our national security……..That’s what makes America different. That’s what makes us exceptional.”-Barack Obama, 10 September 2013