Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
California: Tax-sucker Boeing issued yet more mass layoff WARNs, this time 288 people to be unemployed by the end of October! In Santa Rosa, Mesa Beverage eliminating 137 jobs by the end of October! In Los Angeles, due to losing big food service contracts Patina Restaurant Group eliminating 317 jobs by the end of October! Tech company Intuit issued mass layoff WARNs saying 110 Californians losing their jobs by the end of October! Hotel operator Sheraton laying off 734 people in Palm Desert and Dana Point, supposedly temporarily! In San Francisco, the Kor Hotel shutting down by November, 107 jobs lost! The San Jose Airport Garden Hotel shutting down by November, 123 jobs lost! Also in San Jose, beer distributor M.E. Fox & Company eliminating 127 jobs by November! What housing construction industry recovery? In La Mirada, countertop and door maker VT West laid off 68 people. Now bankrupt Huntington Beach based (but co-owned by British empire’s Australia) surf clothier Quicksilver shutting down 27 brick-n-mortar stores. In Costa Mesa, after 27 years the Cat Clinic of Orange County shutdown. The owner is pissed, she says she never made a profit, in fact she’s been losing money and it’s killed her dream: “I am just sick about losing my dream, my cats, my clients.”-Kelly Wright, veterinarian
Connecticut: It was revealed that GreatWave Communications laid off about six employees, administrators call it “cyclical”. In Westport, Villarina Pasta shutting down by the end of the week: “The rent has gone way, way up! Westport is not a good town for small businesses. The rent now is four times more than our limit……we should have moved five or six years ago.”-Lynn Sclafani, co-owner
Florida: Switzerland owned Melbourne based MidAir USA airline maintainer is now chapter 7 bankrupt busted, following the death of its president in April. At the beginning of the month MidAir warned of its demise due to crashing airliner maintenance contracts. It owes one New York airport more than half a million dollars in rent and fees. In Saint Petersburg, Georgie’s Alibi shutdown. Local news reports didn’t explain why but said the owners were major donors to local charities and were politically active.
Illinois: A Bellevue Quiznos sandwich shop shutdown after 20 years. The franchise owner blames to evil corporate weenie heads: “They’re leaving me out to dry! They don’t want to help. I thought if I stuck around I would reap the rewards of it all. Everything would come my way, but my sales went down.”-Mike Barron
Louisiana: Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) forcing Baton Rouge General hospital to eliminate 60 jobs and shutdown its Mid City emergency room!
Maine: After 53 years Ballard Meats & Seafood shutdown blaming skyrocketing costs of operation, especially the electricity bill which has been hitting as much as $2-thousand USD per month! Affordable Care Act forced Southern Maine Health Care to layoff 13 people and halt their overnight care in Sanford.
Massachusetts: Affordable Care Act forced Worcester based Reliant Medical Group to eliminate 78 jobs.
Michigan: Is Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) responsible for Powerlink janitorial contractor losing their contract with Henry Ford Health System? 190 jobs lost in time for Xmas! What automotive industry recovery? Leon Automotive Interiors has been sold off and will shutdown its Wyoming factory, 125 jobs lost (75 jobs eliminated last year)! The new owners blame lack of new contracts, and it was revealed they’re moving employment to Mexico.
New York: In Skaneateles Falls, medical device maker Welch Allyn taken over by Hill-Rom, at least 80 jobs will now be eliminated.
Ohio: The Piketon American Centrifuge Plant uranium enrichment factory has been ordered to stop by the Obama regime. Tax-sucking contractor Centrus Energy now warning employees of mass layoffs. Reports say 145 people have been laid off!
Pennsylvania: The Please Touch Museum now chapter 11 bankrupt busted. The issuing of bonds has resulted in the museum being $60-million USD in debt. Those bonds aren’t free. In Moosic, the Mickey D’s (McDonald’s) shutting down after 40 years serving billions of burgers with questionable meat. The franchise owners would not explain why they’re calling it quits.
Texas: Tarrant County permanently shutdown six passport offices claiming the U.S. Department of State is waging “an element of retaliation” over a rules dispute.
10 September 2015: “We just cannot continue on this road.”
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.”