Alabama: In Trussville, ObamaCare administrators have cut off funding for the Golden Living Center, forcing it to shutdown after New Year’s Day, at least 111 jobs lost! In Opelika, cafe The Overall Company shutdown, word is that a temporary coffee shop will take its place while the building is being re-purposed.
Arizona: After 42 years the Harkins Camelview 5 movie theater in Scottsdale shutting down next week. The Fashion Square 7 movie theater already shutdown. Both owned by the same company who swears they will build an even bigger “luxury” movie theater to replace the two old theaters.
California: San Francisco’s iconic Magnolia Gastropub and Brewery now chapter 11 bankrupt busted. The dip noodle administrators blame it on their expansion creating the Magnolia Dogpatch & Smokestack BBQ restaurant. Gee if only individuals could file bankruptcy on the grounds of being stupid. In Santa Rosa, after 23 years the privately run animal shelter and children’s summer camp McDonald Ranch shutting down because evil A-hole city administrators revoked their license to operate. The owners are looking for homes for everything from guinea pigs to horses. They’re now forced to sell the property.
Florida: In Longwood, VIP Petcare issued a WARN saying 12 people will be laid off by the end of January 2016.
Georgia: Macy’s shutting down their North DeKalb Mall store by the end of January 2016.
Idaho: Switzerland based drugs maker Novartis paid $390-million USD to settle U.S. charges of kickbacks to pharmacies that pushed Novartis’ drugs into Medicaid and Medicare patients. This is just a slap on the wrist as the money has to be split between at least 40 states. For The Gem State a piddly $52-thousand will come from that pot. By the way, this isn’t the first time Novarits got caught being a criminal in Idaho, back in 2010 they paid the state $350-thousand for basically the same thing, bribing healthcare providers for pushing their drugs! Idaho ‘lawmakers’ continue to rape taxpayers, and again it involves lawsuits but this time the tax payments came from an little known fund. The Legislative Legal Defense Fund has shelled out more than $275-thousand over the past three years to hire private attorneys to fight cases involving sage grouse and ObamaCare.
Kansas: Spain based renewable ethanol refiner Abengoa suddenly shutdown their Hugoton operations, laying off 50 people without warning. Abengoa is now bankrupt busted, considered the biggest bankruptcy in Spain’s history!
Michigan: Detroit Medical Center eliminating at least 125 jobs! Administrators blame ObamaCare for forcing them to “achieve efficiencies across our system”. They laid of 127 people last year. Kent City Community Schools shutdown their elementary school, blaming water service problems. In Grand Rapids, Montello Meat Market shutting down their two years old Downtown location. No reason given. After 14 years Monte’s Lounge shutdown, the property is being re-purposed. Farm industry company GSI Manufacturing announced they will shutdown their Calhoun County factory in March 2016, the new owners are moving operations to Illinois, 70 jobs lost. In Howell, after at least 90 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) clothier Swann’s shutting down as soon as the inventory is gone: “There’s more going out than coming in, and you can’t run a business if you can’t make a profit.”-Pam Shaw, owner
New Jersey: In Edison, Cosmetic Essence issues a WARN saying 1-hundred people will become unemployed by the end of January 2016! It’s all thanks to their “technology innovations” at their distribution center.
New York: More proof the internet is not immune to shutdowns, NYC based free music site Songza being shutdown in January 2016 by its new owner Google Play. In Pleasantville, after 41 years mom-n-pop Try and Buy toy store shutting down on Xmas Eve: “Our sales are down to 2005 levels and our costs are at 2015 levels.”-Barry Schwartz, co-owner
North Carolina: The Golden Peanut and Tree Nuts shelling factory shutting down by February 2016, at least 81 jobs lost. The owner, Archer Daniel Midlands, blames the suck-ass economy (“market conditions”).
Oregon: In Portland, after two years Levant restaurant shutting down after the Gregorian New Year’s.
Pennsylvania: Food service contractor Sodexo issued a WARN saying 72 people in Wilkes-Barre will become jobless by July 2016. In Duryea, Nanny Rose Day Care shutdown without warning. News reports say parents had to suddenly leave work to pick up their kids. However, local news media discovered that parents had filed a complaint with state regulators saying the day care op was not feeding their children. Employees said they were straight up threatened by an attorney: “The phone just rang and they stood there with the phone, and that was a lawyer, and they said that if we say anything this is going to go further. I was shaking. I really was. I’m just shaking.”-employee I won’t name
Texas: In Fort Worth, Trinity Bicycles shutdown without warning. News media discovered the popular shop had been shutdown the week before the U.S. Thanksgiving. The owner is refusing to comment. Giant corporation General Electric is demanding local taxpayers kickback some money for the GE Manufacturing Solutions train factory in Fort Worth, under the Triple Freeport Exemption which burdens those who do pay taxes! The vacant ACH Child & Family Services property is now for sale. California based cookware and furniture seller Williams Sonoma shutting down their Arlington upholstered furniture factory in January 2016, 85 jobs lost. Rush Overland shutting down their Abilene factory, blaming the oil industry, 50 jobs lost after Xmas. British empire Canada based oil company Flint Energy shutting down ops in Kilgore and Victoria after Xmas, 86 jobs lost.
Vermont: In Burlington, after 23 years Bella Boutique shutdown, the owner said she’s pursuing a different business venture.
Washington DC: After only one year Native Foods Cafe shutdown both their DC locations, administrators refused to say why. Maybe it’s ’cause they’re ‘vegan’.
West Virginia: In South Charleston, Saint John Heart and Hand Day Care shutdown blaming “government regulations and the economy”.
04 December 2015: “THIS CONSTRUCTION HERE JUST SLAUGHTERED US…!” “…WE HAVE NOT MADE ONE PENNY OF PROFIT…”
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.”