Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
Alabama: Birmingham based women’s clothing chain store Simply Fashion Stores now chapter 11 bankrupt busted and liquidating. 250 stores across 25 states to shutdown, 1,332 jobs lost!
Arizona: Pima County warned it might have to shutdown four libraries, and shorten hours at remaining libraries. County administrators say they need to save $1.5-million USD annually. After 10 years, the Scottsdale Jean Company shutdown. The store owner says he sold his lease contract to a “high end grocer”.
California: Crosby at Rancho Santa Fe golf club now chapter 11 bankrupt busted. In Sunnyvale, Cypress Semiconductor revealed they killed off 95 jobs, back in January. In Irvine, Western Digital Technologies issued a layoff WARN for June, 115 jobs lost! Advanced Micro Devices issued a layoff WARN saying 85 people will be laid off in June. The USPS shutdown the Industry Processing Center (P&DC). The USPS shutdown the Redding Processing Center (CSMPC). Iconic 68 years old Frederick’s of Hollywood chapter 11 bankrupt busted and shutting down all 111 stores! They want to focus on internet sales only. Boeing issued three more layoff WARNS for June, saying 125 people will be let go! Mitt Romney’s wunderkind Staples announced they’re shutting down two more stores in June, one in Ontario and one in Poway, 94 jobs lost.
Florida: Obama Care forced 50 years old Campbellton-Graceville Hospital to shutdown, at least 95 jobs lost. Administrators said Obama Care was the final straw, causing a huge drop off in people coming in for help, and causing a huge drop in insurance reimbursements.
Georgia: The USPS shutdown the Athens Processing Center (P&DF).
Idaho: God’s Northwest Nazarene University is in trouble. The Administrators want to layoff staff, but the staff countered with a 77% no confidence vote. Now layoffs are on hold pending an independent review of the university’s budget on 15 June.
Several meetings were held with employees at the Gateway Processing Center between March 9th & 20th. Many are being laid off by 18 April 2015.
17 April is the official last day of U.S. Postal Processing Center ops for the Gateway Center (Pocatello CSMPC) in eastern Idaho. At least 50 jobs lost in the Pocatello/Chubbuck communities. The remaining employees will see their hours cut to part time status. Postal Administrators claim the shutdowns will delay mail deliveries by only two days, that’s impossible. (After Idaho shutdown, USPS takes 23 hours to deliver package that should have arrived in 3!)
Illinois: DuPont Pioneer-Hi Bred laid off an undisclosed number of employees at their Good Hope GMO seed factory. Oak Brook based McDonald’s administrators say the economy is so bad in Japan that they expect to lose between $210-million to $318-million by the end of the year (at least triple their losses last year), so, they will shutdown 131 Japanese stores, more than 1-thousand jobs affected, and they will layoff about 1-hundred jobs at their Tokyo HQ! They blame logistical problems getting reliable food!
Indiana: The USPS shutdown the Lafayette Processing Center (P&DF). Obama forcing the Mental Health America Day Homeless Shelter to shutdown in May. Administrator Jennifer Flora says the police state federal government is forcing cities to round up homeless people into one location: “They’re wanting individuals who are homeless to be able to go to one place…”
Kansas: The USPS shutdown the Salina Processing Center (P&DF).
Kentucky: Fort Campbell announced that 23 people will be laid off at their Department of Defense run grade schools.
Michigan: The USPS shutdown the Kalamazoo Processing Center (P&DC). Benton Charter based appliance maker Whirlpool announced they will invest $1.1-million into its European ops, yet at the same time kill off 1,350 jobs!
Minnesota: The USPS shutdown the Duluth Processing Center (P&DF). The Litchfield School District warned it must increase the number of employees on its layoff list, due to crashing student enrollment.
Mississippi: Obama Care forcing Garden Park Medical Center to shutdown eight of its 10 clinics! News reports say the shutdowns will begin in May and end by October, and that hospital administrators have ordered employees not to talk to the media about it, or they will lose their jobs. Administrators say Obama Care is forcing them to cut costs drastically.
Missouri: In Springfield, after more than 50 years the owners of Holiday Lanes bowling alley announced it will shutdown in May.
Nebraska: The USPS shutdown the Grand Island Processing Center (P&DF). The USPS shutdown the Norfolk Processing Center (P&DF).
Nevada: The USPS shutdown the Customer Service Mail Processing Center (CSMPC) in Elko.
New York: In Uniondale, the SMG Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum sports arena is shutting down in July, supposedly for a massive remodel, 2,540 jobs lost! In White Plains, God refuses to stop his Academy of Our Lady of Good Counsel High School from issuing a shutdown WARN, saying 48 people will be laid off in August. NYC based 3D printer company MakerBot announced they will shutdown three stores and layoff 20% of their employees. It’s connected to being taken over by Stratasys. In Buffalo, Dug’s Dive shutdown. It might have something to do with the new landlord. After 90 years (surviving the Great deflationary Depression and numerous recessions), HP Hood issued a shutdown WARN for its Heluva Good Cheese Plant and Heluva Good Country Store. At least 59 people will become jobless between now and September. In Mount Vernon, Hugo Neu Recycling explained that they are shutting down because they are joining the exodus from The Empire State. They’re moving to Kearny, New Jersey, in June.
North Carolina: The USPS shutdown the Asheville Processing Center (P&DF), package sorting to be shutdown on 16 May 2015. In Asheville, booze maker Blue Kudzu Sake shutdown, blaming the crashing U.S. market for preventing them to “secure a large enough market share to make our operation profitable”. In Salisbury, famous Rick’s BBQ shutdown, the owner blamed his bad health.
North Dakota: The USPS shutdown the Minot Processing Center (CSMPC).
Ohio: The USPS shutdown the Toledo Processing Center (P&DF). The USPS shutdown the Akron Postal Processing Center (P&DC), flat sorting to be shutdown on 30 May 2015. News media continues to lie and report the USPS is losing money. How can that be when the USPS reported a record $1.37-billion profit for 2014? The USPS has already surpassed that amount for the 1st quarter of 2015! In Montgomery, after less than one year Verde Salad shutdown for “personal and financial reasons”! Office Depot announced it will shutdown its Canton store in May.
Oregon: The USPS shutdown the Bend CSMPC. The USPS shutdown the Pendleton CSMPC.
Pennsylvania: The USPS shutdown the Erie Processing Center (P&DF). The USPS shutdown the Lancaster Processing Center (P&DF). British empire based legal drugs maker GlaxoSmithKline announced they will kill off 274 jobs in Moon Township! It’s the result of their merger with Novartis.
South Carolina: The USPS shutdown the Florence Processing Center (P&DF).
Tennessee: In Knoxville, after 40 years the Pic N Grin record store shutdown. The owners will sell on the internet only, in the future.
Texas: The USPS shutdown the Houston Processing Center (P&DC). The World’s largest oil service company, Houston based Schlumberger, announced it will kill off 11-thousand jobs! In January they said they were going to kill off 9-thousand jobs! Interestingly company administrators said “oil demand is still expected to increase by 1 million bbl/d in 2015.”
Utah: The USPS is shutting down the East Bay Postal Processing Center, in Provo, and “consolidating” ops to Salt Lake City, Colorado and Nevada (doesn’t that sound more like they’re splitting up operations?). A handful of employees will remain to continue “window” (Post Office) operations. The official shutdown date is 11 July. USPS’s Brian Sperry blames “Americans…sending fewer letters and considerably more packages. Stamped first class mail has declined more than 50% in the last 10 years. The status quo is not an option.”
Virginia: The USPS shutdown the Roanoke Processing Center (P&DC). Obama Care forcing health insurance provider Anthem to eliminate an undisclosed number of jobs in Henrico County. Company administrators call Obama Care “a time of unprecedented and rapid change in our industry.” Norfolk State University warned of layoffs due to a drop in enrollment by almost 1-thousand students since last year! In Arlington, after 28 years Mother’s Macaroons Bakery shutdown. The owner blames the death of her husband and the crashing economy saying “It was a series of things, and it hit me like a bag of rocks!”
Washington: In Auburn, after 76 years the owners of Rottles Clothing and Shoes announced it will shutdown in June: “The landscape for brick and mortar retail has changed dramatically over the past several years. The advent of internet commerce, big box discounters, and an overall relaxation of dress codes has taken its toll.”-John Rottle
Wisconsin: The USPS shutdown the La Crosse Processing Center (P&DF). Sears Holdings announced the Wauwatosa Kmart will shutdown in June, 103 jobs lost! What automotive industry recovery? In East Troy, motorcycle company Erik Buell Racing is shutting down, 126 jobs lost!
Wyoming: The USPS is shutting down the Customer Service Mail Processing Center in Rock Springs: “We’re not talking about post offices. …..It’s what happens in the back and those are the things that we’re changing and its the thing that most people don’t think about. It’s how the mail moves after it gets put in that collection box, that’s how we’re changing things.”-David Rupert
12 – 14 April 2015: “the ongoing destruction of the United States…”
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
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.”