Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
An east coast female clothing store now chapter 11 bankrupt busted. Love Culture owes its landlords tens of millions of dollars in back rent. Their website still says they are growing and expanding their business! Company officials stated that the bankruptcy will allow them to shutdown many of their 80 stores. The company founders chose a bad year to start up a corporation; 2007.
Arizona: Who said tech jobs were recession proof? In Tucson, California based tech company Intuit announced they’re killing 200 jobs in the near future. Company officials refused to explain why, or exactly when they would take place. If you go back over my previous Job Losses reports you’ll notice that Intuit has been steadily laying off employees in California.
California: Speaking of Intuit, they also announced they are killing an additional 127 Golden State jobs in September! Taxsucker Boeing announced that 58 Golden Staters will be laid off in September. More proof you can’t blame the internet for killing brick-n-mortar stores. Yet another women’s clothing retailer in trouble, this time San Francisco based internet seller ModCloth. Reports say the internet operation laid off about 70 employees, even though they’re advertising that they’re hiring. ModCloth has also been accused of modifying the pics of clothing on their website. Staying in San Francisco, the Grand Cafe warned that at least three employees will be let go in September. In Porterville, Foster Poultry Farms announced 60 chicken pluckers will be laid off come September. In Los Angeles, Wolfgang Pucks shutting down their restaurant at LAX Terminal 2 in September, 24 jobs lost. Also at Terminal 1 LAX, Delaware North Companies (DNC) Travel Hospitality Services shutting down their Back Lot Deli in September, 25 jobs lost. In Montebello, insurance industry created Obama Care forcing Beverly Community Hospital to cull 82 healthcare jobs in September. In El Dorado Hills, Video Products Distributors IV announced they are shutting down in September, 17 jobs lost.
Georgia: In Atlanta, after 50 years snooty upscale private for profit Bauder College announced it is shutting down in 2015! It’s blamed on massive disappearing students. In 2009 the college had 12-hundred students, it’s now less than 420! College officials said by the start of the 2015-16 school year they’ll be down to 75! You see, the U.S. economy is so bad even wealthy people can’t afford to pay for college!
Kentucky: What automotive industry recovery? In Maysville, Federal Mogul warned of 157 layoffs! The maker of automotive parts is consolidating operations out-o-state. Obama Care killing 70 healthcare jobs at Jennie Stuart Medical Center: “…like many hospitals nationwide….We are adjusting to federal sequester cuts, declining Medicare reimbursement, an increasingly complex and restrictive Medicaid system, and a commercial insurance marketplace that is placing more of the burden of cost on its insureds.”– official statement from hospital
Maine: What housing market recovery? After 61 years window maker Waterville Window now chapter 7 bankrupt busted and liquidating. The company began laying off employees in December 2013.
Michigan: The city of Flint is warning that Obama Care’s increased employee benefit costs and the bad economy are pushing the city into bankruptcy: “Flint’s at the forefront, but a lot of cities are on the same train, and that train is headed for the cliff!”-Eric Scorsone, Michigan State University economist
Minnesota: In Minneapolis, after nine years Social House restaurant shutdown, the operators blame the property owner for kicking them out, saying “We had absolutely no control over this situation…”
Mississippi: Obama Care forcing Trace Regional Hospital to shutdown their Emergency Room in September: “The federal government is cutting or eliminating programs that pay hospitals for treating uninsured patients. This money is being redirected to fund the cost of Medicaid expansion….”-State Senator David Blount
New York: In Auburn, air conditioner maker Daikin Applied warned it is shutting down just in time for the New Year, 415 employees affected! In Newfane, Obama Care forcing Eastern Niagara Hospital to cull 185 healthcare jobs beginning in October!
Nevada: In Laughlin, the River Palms Resort Casino announced they will kill at least 271 jobs in September! The casino was sold off, and it’s not known what the new owners are planning to do with the property.
North Carolina: After 35 years Obama Care (Affordable Care Act) forcing Cancer Centers of North Carolina (CCNC) to shutdown in October, 135 healthcare jobs lost: “The doctors have really tried for the past couple years to stay independent. They just can’t sustain it anymore.”-Sheri Dyke, CCNC director
Ohio: Uranium mining company Fluor-B&W Portsmouth issued a WARN, saying all 19-hundred employees and subcontractors could lose their jobs by Autumn! Company officials say they are losing money due to the crashing price of uranium, a similar situation to what is crashing and burning the coal mining industry.
Pennsylvania: In Lawrenceville, Paragon Foods canceled their plans to build a distribution center. The female president of the company said “It was unaffordable for us…” God refuses to stop the Franktuary hot dog restaurant at Trinity Cathedral from shutting down: “We’ve come to the end of an era. Franktuary will close its original set of doors on National Hot Dog Day, July 23rd, at 4 p.m.”-owners
Tennessee: Another U.S. shoe factory shuts down, this time Wellco Enterprises shuttered its Morristown factory, 53 jobs lost. Before the 2010 takeover by Wellco the taxsucking factory used to make boots for the U.S. Department of Defense.
Texas: In Amarillo, after 88 years (surviving the Great Depression and numerous recessions) Beebe’s Ace Hardware & Building Supply shutdown. Back in the day ‘hardware’ meant hammer and nails, not hard drives or motherboards. The owner blames Globalization: “It used to be everything in the lumber business was made in the U.S., we live in a world economy now. He [the founder of the store] would have a fit if he knew we were selling tools that were made in China and Indonesia…..plywood from Russia, from South America, from Chile, from Australia and hardwood from Indonesia. It’s just incredible….”-Parker Beebe
Who said tech jobs were recession proof? In Plano, computer company Dell announced they are killing an undisclosed number of jobs around the World. Dell officials said less than 175 Texans would be laid off. The company calls job killing ‘optimizing operations’: “We can confirm that we have taken steps to optimize our operations over the past few years and recently.”
Virginia: In Staunton, the Dixie Theater shutdown.
Washington: Who said tech jobs were recession proof? Redmond based Microsoft finally revealed its massive job culling plan; 18-thousand by the end of 2015! Analysts knew it would be big, but not that big. Reports say about 55-hundred job losses will be in the United States! It’s partly blamed on Microsoft’s takeover of Finland’s Nokia (apparently thousands of Finns are soon to be jobless), but some of the U.S. layoffs come from the shutdown of Xbox Entertainment Studios.
West Virginia: In Charleston, after 84 years (and surviving the Great Depression and numerous recessions) the Sport Mart Superstore announced they will shutdown in August. The owners blamed “ever changing demographics, competition from big chain stores, the Internet and the local economy have all contributed to sales erosion.”
Wisconsin: Internet based Anthem College shutting down its Brookfield operation in September, 30 jobs lost. In Milwaukee, Associated Bank shutting down its Wisconsin Avenue office in August.
15 – 16 July 2014: “It is extremely scary!”
The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) doesn’t count the hundreds of layoffs involving less than 50 people each, in its mass layoff reports. It also doesn’t count all the little ‘mom & pop’ businesses that shutdown. It doesn’t count people who get a severance for being laid off.
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