Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
Alabama: Obama Care forcing Alabama Psychiatric Services to shutdown. 250 jobs lost and 28-hundred patients affected! Administrators say Obama Care created a situation in which Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama pushed the majority of people into more expensive insurance plans, and effectively killed off most of Alabama Psychiatric Services business! (What was that about Obama Care increasing access to healthcare?) The U.S. Army announced it will kill off 190 jobs at its Anniston Depot: “The reason we’re releasing the temporary employees is due to a change in the workload.”-Colonel Brent T. Bolander
Arizona: Phoenix based Sleep America shutdown after being taken over by Mattress Firm.
California: Iconic Chico Sportsman’s Den shutting down in two months, the owner says he’s ready to retire. In Bakersfield, Caesar’s Italian Delicatessen shutdown: “February 13th will be our last day…..We first opened our doors in June of 1971…..It’s been a profound honor to serve everyone who has walked through our doors over the years and this is an incredibly sad day for us.”-owners facebook posting
Florida: At Patrick Air Force Base, taxsucker Computer Sciences Raytheon issued a WARN saying 420 people will be jobless by April!
Idaho: It’s official, six (of approximately 24) Gem State RadioShack stores will be shutdown; in Chubbuck, Meridian, Nampa, Pocatello, Post Falls and Rexburg. Some stores have already shutdown.
Illinois: The Chicago-Wicker Park area Kmart is shutting down, 106 jobs lost! Lowe’s apparently paid Sears Holdings in order to take over the Wicker Park Kmart lease, but will not set up shop until 2016. Also in Chicago, after 18 years Carmichael’s Steakhouse announced it will shutdown in March, blaming the greedy property owner. The property was sold off and will be used to build an apartment complex. The restaurant manager is pissed, as his business was good: “It’s unfortunate that we have to close when we’re still doing really good business.”-Ben Sawyer
Indiana: After seven years Richmond chocolate shop Ghyslain Bistro shutdown. The owner said he’s focusing on his stores in Kentucky and internet sales.
Maryland: The White Flint Mall shutdown and will be demolished.
Massachusetts: Mitt Romney’s evil Farmington based wunderkind Staples is the new owner of Office Depot after trading $6.3-billion USD worth of stocks for it, 1-thousand stores will be shutdown! The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) recently signed a deal with Staples to kill off your local Post Office jobs!
Michigan: In Kalamazoo, with little notice to employees the Harding’s grocery store on Howard Street was sold off and is being shutdown, 60 jobs lost.
Minnesota: Colorado based Arrow Electronics issued a WARN saying they will shutdown their Saint Paul operations in March, 77 jobs lost. Company administrators are moving their electronics salvage ops to Ohio.
Montana: Bilderberger vaccine pusher GlaxoSmithKline announced they’re shutting down their Hamilton research center during 2015, at least 27 jobs lost. Administrators also warned shutdowns and layoffs will take place elsewhere: “Other parts of the business are facing similar restructuring. It’s happening companywide, not just Hamilton, but all parts of GSK’s business.”-Melinda Stubbee
New Jersey: The Sports and Exposition Authority announced they will shutdown the 34 years old Izod Center in March, 17-hundred jobs lost! Administrators say the sports arena has been losing money big time, and expects it would lose $8.5-million in 2015, if they kept it open. In Middletown, God refuses to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ Mater Dei Prep school: “It is with great sadness that I inform you that Mater Dei Prep will close at the end of this school year, June 2015. Over the many years, Mater Dei Prep has been running large financial deficits. It had been the hope of the Parish Finance Council and myself that these trends could be reversed. However, the 2014-2015 projected loss is close to one million dollars.”-Jeff Kegley, pastor
Camden based iconic soup maker Cambells announced it will split into three division and begin massive job destruction in order to cut $200-million over the next three years! For proof there is no economic recovery, company administrators say company profits have been crashing steadily since 2008, with no end in sight: “Like other companies in our industry, we’re contending with now not just the long term impact of the Great Recession on consumer purchasing behavior, or the increasingly complex public dialog when it comes to food, or the regulatory environment for food.”-Denise Morrison, ceo
New York: Lucky Magazine laid off at least 12 people. In Rouses Point, legal drugs maker Pfizer issued a WARN saying they will shutdown by June. In NYC, clothing retailer Jack Spade and Kate Spade Saturday issued a WARN saying they will shutdown in May, 47 jobs lost, saying they are undergoing a “brand overhaul”.
North Carolina: Obama Care forcing Transylvania Regional Hospital to shutdown its labor and delivery services. Women in the area are complaining they must now travel out of the area to give birth. (What was that about Obama Care increasing access to healthcare?) In Raleigh, decades old Crowley’s restaurant and bar shutdown, with no explanation. In Research Triangle Park, Massachusetts based data storage company EMC warned of layoffs in an effort to cut $150-million!
Ohio: In Youngstown, France based Vallourec Star announced it will shutdown its oil industry seemless pipe operations for at least three weeks, more than 5-hundred jobs affected!
Oklahoma: In Tulsa, Texas based Team Oil Tools announced they will shutdown in April, 93 jobs lost. Administrators tried to blame low oil prices but a local Fox23 news TV station discovered the company has been having money problems for a long time. Oklahoma City based PostRock Energy announced it will kill off 25% of its jobs, conveniently blaming oil prices for its decision to halt oil drilling for 2015. The ignorant administrators revealed they had assumed WTI oil prices would average $92.73 per barrel through to the end of 2016! Guess they didn’t think the fact that Islamic State selling off oil on the black market would affect oil prices. And who’s buying that Islamic State oil?
Oregon: Portland based software company VendScreen laid off more employees, earlier this year they had 30, now it’s reported they’re down to 19. Helicopter maker Erickson laid off 150 people! Administrators admitted it was connected to their take over of competing companies in the U.S. and Brazil.
Texas: It’s official, iconic 94 years old (surviving the Great deflationary Depression and numerous recessions) RadioShack now chapter 11 bankrupt busted and shutting down as many as 25-hundred stores across the country, the other 15-hundred will be sold to cell phone service company Sprint! Oil service company Weatherford International killing off 8-thousand jobs, blaming low oil prices! However, an official company statement revealed it was actually due to “quickly changing market conditions”. It was revealed that company administrators have been making personnel and operations changes for months now. Houston based fracking company Royalty Partners now chapter 11 bankrupt busted, don’t blame oil prices, the relatively new company owes more than $1-million in rent and to lawyers.
Wisconsin: Gov’na Right to Work you over Scott Walker will preside over the killing of 446 state jobs! The Right to Work you over policies have resulted in The Badger State facing a $2-billion shortfall! Right to Work you over Walker says he will also steal $2-million from the Educational Communications Board! In Janesville, Veterans Affairs contractor Data Dimensions laid off 120 people without warning or explanation: “I got this job and I was so happy, because it was full time and I got off of food stamps, no more W2…..came as a complete surprise to us, because we have been being pushed for months to produce more and more and more.”-Karly Yager, laid off six hours into her shift
01 – 04 February 2015: “All good things come to an end.”
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 shutdown. It doesn’t count people who get a severance for being laid off.