Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
Arizona: What housing market recovery? British empire Australia based real estate company Colliers International says land sales in Phoenix have crashed 40% in the first half of 2014!
California: Yet another video game company killing jobs. In San Francisco, CCP Games shutdown an office and laid off at least two executives (although CCP swears the execs voluntarily quit). Los Angeles International airport (LAX), Menzies Aviation warned it will kill 65 jobs in November. In San Diego, Stingaree nightclub warned it will shutdown in November, 111 jobs lost! Owners claim it’s only temporarily, for six months of renovations. In Mountain View, tech company Symantec laid off another two employees. In Laguna Beach, The House of Big Fish and Ice warned it will shutdown by the end of October, 58 jobs lost.
Connecticut: In Norwalk , after 29 years the Appliance Servicecenter shutdown. The owner is losing his eyesight.
Florida: In Orlando, Too Big to Jail SunBank shutting down their fraud call center, killing 105 jobs by the end of October! After 81 years (surviving the Great Depression and numerous recessions) Pearl Artist & Craft Supply shutdown. The store went bankrupt busted and never recovered.
Illinois: In River North, after only two years the Tavernita restaurant shutdown, without notice. The owners lost their booze license, and allegedly owe hundreds of thousands in unpaid taxes, although restaurant reps claim the taxes were paid. In Streeterville, after a year of promises ‘organic’ grocery store Mrs Green’s Natural Market canceled plans to open a new store. Company officials blamed the bad economy for “timing and logistical” problems.
Iowa: After 57 years God refuses to stop the Saint Andrew’s Presbyterian Church from shutting down. It’s now for sale, the pastor blaming the rapture of people and money: “…we’ve run out of money. We’ve run out of money and we’ve run out of people at the same time.”-Gregory Cluts
Kansas: In Hesston, maker of farming equipment AGCO laid off 24 factory workers and cut the hours for everybody else. It’s blamed on crashing sales. Company officials warned that more layoffs will be forthcoming. Union officials believe 80 more workers will become unemployed.
Maine: In Bangor, God refuses to stop the Christian Life Academy Daycare from shutting down. The church pastor blames crashing donations: “We have cut everywhere we can cut, we are heartbroken that the daycare has to close too.”-Russ Hewett
Michigan: What housing market recovery? British empire Australia based real estate company Colliers International shutdown their Detroit office. Company officials blame it on the loss of their brokers.
Montana: In Columbia Falls, F.H. Stoltze Land and Lumber laid off ten sawmill employees. It’s blamed on a federal court ruling that says no logging can be done in ‘protected’ grizzly bear habitat.
Nebraska: In Grand Island, farm equipment maker CNH Industrial America announced it will kill 238 jobs by November! They blame crashing sales.
Nevada: In Reno, Morrison University warned it will shutdown after the 2014-15 school year! It’s due to the allegedly criminal actions of the owner, Anthem Education. To make things worse for the students, they were told the university’s transfer credits are no longer recognized!
New York: What housing market recovery? In Brooklyn, pre-fab building maker FC + Skanska Modular warned they are shutting down in October due to a lost contract, 157 jobs lost! In Salamanca, a Parkview Supermarket grocery store shutting down in December, 72 jobs lost in time for Xmas.
Pennsylvania: Atlantic County lost 36-hundred jobs in July!
Tennessee: Memphis based Fred’s Super Dollar announced they will shutdown 70 stores by the end of 2014, hundreds of jobs lost! Company officials said it’s their way of raising cash to buy up pharmacies!
Wisconsin: Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) shutting down their print and mail ops, 32 jobs lost.
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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