Incomplete list of U.S. Mining/Industrial/Logistics job loss/shutdown announcements made in July 2018.
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
The Washington Post: Millions of educated, experienced workers have been tossed aside
ALABAMA: Hyundai plant could be first shut down under tariff plan
ALASKA: Oil giant reports 2018 profit, compared to big 2017 loss
ConocoPhillips Swaps Assets With BP, Expands Alaska Base
CALIFORNIA: No more Barbie or Hot Wheels? El Segundo based Mattel announced plans to eliminate at least 2-thousand-2-hundred toy jobs around the world, due to massive crashing sales possibly due to the death of retailer Toys R Us! Already Mattel laid off 140 people at its El Segundo HQ! Furniture company Minson Corporation issued a shutdown WARN for its Montebello ops, 113 jobs gone by September! Freight Handlers Incorporated (FHI) issued a shutdown WARN for its Riverside ops, 115 jobs gone by September! Recycler Aqua Metals issued a shutdown WARN for its Alameda location, 12 jobs gone in September. Golden State Overnight Delivery Service issued layoff WARNs for its Gardena and Santa Ana ops, 138 jobs gone mid-September! ITW Bay Area Label issued a shutdown WARN for its San Jose ops, 54 jobs gone by October. MV Transportation eliminating 135 jobs in Visalia, by the end of September!
COLORADO: Drillers Fuel Record Oil Output in Rush to Finish Wells
FLORIDA: C&S Wholesale Services eliminating 319 jobs in Orlando by October!
IDAHO: Bankrupt and suddenly dead Indiana based Koontz-Wagner Custom Controls suddenly laid off 51 people at its now dead Caldwell ops.
ILLINOIS: Iconic cosmetics maker/seller Avon (now known as New Avon) just sold-off its last U.S. factory, in Morton Grove-Chicago, to a French company, 3-hundred to 4-hundred jobs affected! The French company will make products for British empire United Kingdom owned Walgreens-Boots Alliance. One of the last U.S. plastic model kit and RC toy manufacturers/distributors, Hobbico, officially chapter 7 bankrupt dead, resulting in iconic Revell kits being 100% German owned. In Chicago, MW Industries issued a shutdown WARN, 49 jobs gone by Xmas. In Aurora, Jacobson Warehouse issued a shutdown WARN, 134 jobs gone due to consolidation operations! Stack-On Products issued shutdown WARNs for its operations in Wauconda and McHenry, 153 jobs gone in October!
INDIANA: In Bristol, Diversified Machine warning 5-hundred employees of layoffs due to losing a contract with Ford! Chapter 7 bankrupt and suddenly dead Koontz-Wagner Custom Controls suddenly laid off 104 people (according to official WARN) at its now dead South Bend factory and HQ, one employee told local news media there was no warning: “No one knew about it to 9 o’ clock this morning when we had a meeting and they told us ‘We are shutting the doors. Get your stuff it’s time to leave.'”-Ron Randolph, employee for 16 years
Japan based Wire-Maker TOKUSEN Says it Will Idle Clark County Operation
IOWA: Construction industry tool maker Black Cat Wear Parts laid off ten people, blaming it on the tariff war with British empire Canada. Winnebago Industries eliminating 31 jobs by the end of August.
KENTUCKY: Greeting card maker American Greetings shutting down its factory in Bardstown, more than 250 jobs lost between September 2018 and February 2019!
MASSACHUSETTS: Partly taxpayer funded uniform maker Pepperell Mills now chapter 11 bankrupt busted and liquidating. Technetics Group shutting down ops in Oxford due to “the current industrial gas turbine market”, 97 jobs lost.
MINNESOTA: United Sports Brands eliminating 20 jobs in Minnetonka, by November.
MISSOURI: Lawnmower engine maker Briggs and Stratton cutting production and warning of mass layoffs at its factory in Popular Bluff, in “coming weeks”, due to lack of sales. Also in Popular Bluff, Mid Continent Nail Corporation cut production by half and laid off 60 people, blaming lack of sales on new tariff wars.
NEW YORK: Fischer Price laid off 50 people at its HQ, as part of parent company Mattel’s plan to eliminate thousand of jobs globally! Advanced Motors and Drives issued a layoff WARN for its East Syracuse location, 51 jobs gone between August 2018 and March 2019. Verrino Construction Services now chapter 11 bankrupt busted due to lack of cash caused by lack of sales. Hebeler Process Solutions issued layoff WARNs, at least 60 jobs gone in September due to a sudden loss of sales from a major customer.
NORTH CAROLINA: American Tire Distributors suddenly laid off 1-hundred people because “…the industry is going through its largest change in decades”. Home furnishings maker Heritage Home Group (Broyhill, Lane, Thomasville, and Drexel Heritage) now chapter 11 bankrupt busted. Mattress maker Serta Simmons shutting down its factory in Whitsett, 112 jobs gone by September!
OHIO: Chinese owned (Hong Kong) vacuum cleaner maker TTI Floor Care (Oreck) issued a shutdown WARN for its Glenwillow ops, at least 75 jobs gone starting in September due “to changing business circumstances” forcing the company to consolidate operations. Germany based Siemens issued a shutdown WARN for its Aero-Derivative Gas Turbine ops, 134 jobs gone “due to conditions within the global energy market”.
OKLAHOMA: Aircraft parts maker NORDAM Group now chapter 11 bankrupt busted due to problems with Pratt & Whitney Canada, local news media say NORDAM is the second biggest employer in the state.
U.S. oil production hits 11 million barrels a day
PENNSYLVANIA: ArcelorMittal Plate issued a layoff WARN, 125 people in Conshohocken jobless by September! Jacobson Warehouse issued a shutdown WARN for its Lancaster ops, 62 jobs gone in September.
SOUTH CAROLINA: Tariffs Imperil BMW in South Carolina
SOUTH DAKOTA: Hultgren Construction now chapter 11 bankrupt busted due to lawsuits over a deadly building collapse.
TENNESSEE: TEC Industrial Maintenance & Construction laid off 238 people due to a lost contract!
TEXAS: Bankrupt and suddenly dead Indiana based Koontz-Wagner Custom Controls suddenly laid off 52 people at its now dead Houston ops.
WASHINGTON: Germany based logistics company Arvato issued a shutdown WARN for its Yakima ops, 168 jobs gone by the end of September!
WEST VIRGINIA: MRC Global shutting down its Nitro distribution center, 38 jobs lost to consolidation ops.
Diversified Gas & Oil buys EQT assets
Pinnacle Mine to lay off roughly 90 miners
WISCONSIN: Mayline-Safeco laying off 127 furniture makers in September, as part of plans to shutdown operations at several locations by November! Cooper Power Systems eliminating 52 mechanic jobs by September. In Waukesha, General Electric (GE) laying off 236 people by shutting down its Distributed Power Facility!
U.S. INDUSTRIAL/MINING/LOGISTICS SHUTDOWNS, JUNE 2018: “GLOBAL RACE TO THE BOTTOM.”