Incomplete list of U.S. Mining/Industrial/Logistics job loss/shutdown announcements made in December 2018.

WARN=Worker Adjustment Retraining Notification

ARKANSAS: Kimberly-Clark to close plant in Conway, affects around 350 jobs!

CALIFORNIA: Lippert Components issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Los Angeles, 56 jobs gone by February 2019.  WWL Vehicle Services Americas issued a layoff WARN, 136 jobs gone by the end of January 2019!  Ambulance maker Halcore Group-Leader Emergency issued a shutdown WARN, 95 South El Monte jobs gone by March 2019. Solaris Paper issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Santa Fe, 32 jobs gone by February 2019. Alamillo Rebar issued a shutdown WARN for its Benicia operations, 74 jobs gone by the end of February 2019.

After 74 years metal fabricator Vic Myers shutting down

Montelli Construction is liquidating its remaining assets after 72 years

CONNECTICUT: Covia Holding Corporation-Unimin Corporation issued a shutdown WARN, 60 jobs gone sometime in 2019.

FLORIDA: First Transit issued a WARN, 85 Miami International Airport jobs gone by the end of February 2019.

PVC manufacturer Cantex will lay off 48 people

ILLINOIS:  DuPont issued a layoff WARN, 33 people in El Paso jobless by February 2019.

IOWA: Contracted manufacturer Buffalo Weaver issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Waterloo.

DuPont Pioneer will lay off 35 workers as parent company DuPont continues work on its merger with Dow Chemical

KANSAS: Jamvold Truck & Tractor Repair shutting down to make room for a warehouse

KENTUCKY: Glass and lamp maker LEDVANCE shutting down, 260 jobs gone because the company can’t afford to switch to making L-E-D!

MICHIGAN: Auto industry supplier CNI Plastics (aka Adient, aka Futuris) issued a shutdown WARN, 212 jobs gone between March and April 2019!

Auto industry supplier, Bosal Industries Georgia, to layoff 58 at Ypsilanti Township facility

General Motors  will cut 50 jobs at its Brownstown battery factory, and 620 jobs at its Detroit-Hamtramck Impala and Cadillac factory! (746 in total according to official WARNs!)

Ford warning of 25-thousand job cuts!

MINNESOTA: Recycler Envirolastech reported to state employment officials it had eliminated 20 jobs.  Wilbrecht Ledco also reported eliminating 18 jobs.

MISSISSIPPI: Serta Mattress Plant shutting down, more than 120 jobs gone!

NEW YORK: Cortland Pump and Equipment issued a shutdown WARN for two locations, 21 jobs gone by April 2019.

Globe Specialty Metals (aka Globe Metallurgical) shutdown its silicon factory in Niagara Falls, 1-hundred jobs gone

Barchella Landscape & Masonry Corporation files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

Hat maker New Era Cap gives official plant-closing notice, 219 jobs gone!

NORTH CAROLINA: Maker of automotive and office seating Leggett & Platt to lay off 172 employees!

Buyouts, layoffs at Brunswick nuclear plant

Performance Bicycle to eliminate 2-hundred jobs at its corporate office!

OHIO: General Motors issued a shutdown WARN for its factory in Lordstown, 1-thousand-607 jobs gone in March 2019!

Lordstown Seating Systems will cease production, 120 automotive jobs gone by March  2019!

Contracted e-commerce ‘fulfillment’ warehouse operator Radial eliminating 2-hundred jobs in 2019!

PENNSYLVANIA: Serta Simmons Bedding issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Lancaster, 86 jobs gone by February 2019.  Arrow International Incorporated/ Teleflex eliminating five jobs in Reading.

After 92 years Easton Upholstery & Furniture Manufacturing shutdown, blamed on the stupid leftist liberal millennials: “The younger generation wants to think green, but when I tell them that re-upholstery is the way to go that’s green, they don’t understand it.”-Edward Adams

24-70 layoffs expected at Amthor Steel

Valmont Industries shutting down, 180 jobs gone!

RHODE ISLAND: Partly taxpayer funded Textron eliminating 4-hundred jobs from its Specialized Vehicle ops across the U.S.!

TEXAS: petrochemical (oil industry) manufacturer Trecora Resources will lay off 20% of its workforce

Brazil oil company Petrobras eliminating 50 jobs in Houston

Parker Drilling files for chapter 11 bankruptcy 

German engineering firm Siemens plans to kill 2-hundred jobs in Houston!

VERMONT: Industrial cleaning company Accuworx suddenly shutdown, saying “business does not appear to be able to become viable within the reasonably foreseeable future”

VIRGINIA: Despite boasting that it is hiring, taxpayer funded builder of nuclear powered warships Newport News Shipbuilding wants to bribe more than 2-thousand-5-hundred employees to quit!

REO Logistics eliminating 70 jobs due to losing a contract

Ikea Industry Danville is laying off about 90 employees due to high inventory and low sales

WASHINGTON: Maker of beauty products sold on the internet, Julep, suddenly shutdown, 102 jobs gone!

WISCONSIN: Prinsco issued a WARN, 33 jobs gone due to consolidation of warehousing/yard operations.

Milwaukee Moulding & Frame closing after 100 years

U.S. MINING/INDUSTRIAL/LOGISTICS LAYOFFS, November 2018: “NOBODY WAS GIVEN THE HEADS UP ON THIS”