Incomplete list of U.S. Mining/Industrial/Logistics job loss/shutdown announcements made in October 2018.
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
Holy weapons malfunction Batman! An ongoing type of taxpayer rip-off was finally revealed by the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) in the form of ‘suspended stock’, which are parts paid for by taxpayers for use in maintaining expensive military weapons systems, except that they’re mislabeled by the corporate unAmerican manufacturers, rendering the parts useless! The chief of DLA Troop Support’s Industrial Hardware Division, José Pereira, said the amount of mislabeled parts is “eye opening”. The parts cannot be used until their true intended use is identified. A specialized Industrial Hardware team has been assembled to literally sort through the massive problem.
CALIFORNIA: Window coverings maker Century Blinds issued a shutdown WARN for its operations in Corona, 59 jobs gone the day after Thanksgiving. Heavy construction contractor Brinderson issued layoff WARNs, 324 jobs gone by December! Carpet maker TDG Operations issued a shutdown WARN for its Los Angeles ops, 60 jobs gone December. Clothing maker (‘wearable art’) Providence Industries issued a shutdown WARN (supposedly temporary) for its Long Beach location, 96 jobs lost the day after xmas. Clothing maker/distributor MD2 Industries issued a shutdown WARN (supposedly temporary) for its Long Beach ops, 158 jobs lost the day before xmas! Clothing maker PVH Neckwear issued a ‘permanent’ shutdown WARN for its Los Angeles ops, 94 jobs gone after xmas. Iconic clothing maker Levy’s issued a ‘permanent’ shutdown WARN for its Inglewood factory, 272 jobs gone by January 2019! West Coast Warehouse issued a shutdown WARN for its Fontana location, 18 jobs lost the day after xmas. Metal Partners International issued a shutdown WARN for its Bakersfield location. Davis Wire Corporation issued a ‘temporary’ shutdown WARN for its Irwindale location, 109 jobs gone the day before xmas! Construction supplies maker Burke Industries issued a layoff WARN for Its San Jose locations, 61 jobs gone by the end of the year. Insulation maker Thermal Structures issued a shutdown WARN for its Corona location. Material handling ‘simplifier’ Symbotic issued a shutdown WARN for its Oceanside location. Contracted manufacturer Jabil issued several ‘temporary’ shutdown WARNs, more than 1-thousand jobs lost the week before xmas!
UTC Aerospace to end aircraft systems manufacturing in Chula Vista, cutting 300 jobs!
COLORADO: Major Mountain West Coal Producer Files For Bankruptcy
CONNECTICUT: Building-materials distributor Builders First Source issued a shutdown WARN for its East Hartford location, 46 jobs gone by the end of the year.
INDIANA: JD Norman Industries shutting down its facility in Muncie, 130 jobs lost!
Cardinal Metal Finishing eliminating 80 jobs, blaming a “key customer.”
IOWA: Germany based Siemens issued a shutdown WARN for its Burlington ops, 125 jobs gone by the end of 2019, due “to competitive pressures in the energy market”!
KENTUCKY: Japan based Hitachi eliminating 100 jobs in Harrodsburg!
HVAC company Trane shutting down its 55 years old factory in Lexington, 600 jobs lost!
MICHIGAN: Spectrum Industries Decorative Finishes issued a shutdown WARN for its factories in Kentwood and Grand Rapids, 134 jobs killed by consolidation ops! Hartman International Industries issued a shutdown WARN for its operations in Novi, 42 jobs gone by the end of the year.
Metal stamping supplier to close Westland plant, lay off 70, “As a result of this unexpected business circumstance, the company expects that it will be forced to imminently shut down and is unable to give 60 days notice of closing”
China based Yanfeng Automotive Interiors suddenly laid off 55 employees
MINNESOTA: Hand crafted leather products maker JW Hulme issued a layoff WARN, 28 jobs gone in November.
NEBRASKA: Omaha based Union Pacific killing 5-hundred jobs! (and that is just the first round of layoffs)
NEW MEXICO: ONE Aviation now bankrupt busted after failing to pay almost one million dollars in back-due rent
NEW JERSEY: Bankrupt NSC National Wholesale Liquidators issued a shutdown WARN for its Lodi ops, 152 jobs gone by January 2019!
NEW YORK: Bankrupt NSC Wholesale Holdings-National Wholesale Liquidators issued a massive shutdown WARN, 458 jobs gone at a date “to be determined”! Vinyl sign/packaging maker Royal Industries issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Brooklyn-NYC, 77 jobs gone in time for xmas. Fake fingernail company Ivy Enterprises issued a shutdown WARN for its warehouse ops in Port Washington, between 24 and 132 jobs affected as the company gets the hell outta New York!
NORTH CAROLINA: Rail car maker Vertex shutting down after only four years, employees told local news media “They told us that they lost all their customers, lost all their contracts, investors pulled out.”
Huntersville-based American Tire Distributors (ATD) files for bankruptcy
High Point based furniture maker Heritage Home Group eliminating at least 145 jobs!
OHIO: Germany based Siemens issued a WARN for its Mount Vernon/Knox location, 57 jobs gone by the end of the year.
MPP shutting down its metal injection ops in Solon, 55 jobs lost
PENNSYLVANIA: CEVA Logistics issued a shutdown WARN for its Bedford location, 73 jobs gone by the end of November. Bankrupt NSC Wholesale Holdings-National Wholesale Liquidators issued a shutdown WARN for its Philadelphia location, 42 jobs gone by December.
RHODE ISLAND: Pawtucket based toy maker Hasbro eliminating at least 540 jobs due to the death of Toys R Us!
TEXAS: Taxpayer funded military tech company L3 cuts 62 positions at Waco plant
WISCONSIN: Sunlight Plastics suddenly laid off 58 people in Germantown. Trucking company Black Horse Carriers issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Kenosha, 107 jobs gone by the end of January 2019! In Pleasant Prairie, Southwire/Coleman Cable issued a shutdown WARN, 65 jobs gone by December.
Hi-Crush shutting down in Whitehall, 37 jobs lost due to crashing demand for sand
U.S. INDUSTRIAL/MINING/LOGISTICS SHUTDOWNS, September 2018: “MANY JOBS WILL BE….ELIMINATED”