Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
Alabama: The U.S. Army Fleet Support to layoff as many as 300 people at Fort Rucker, before xmas! It was revealed by labor unions. The aircraft maintenance contracts are based on the flying hours of Army aircraft, and since flying hours have been drastically cut (by 49-thousand hours) to save taxpayer money it follows that people will lose their jobs.
Alaska: In Fairbanks, after 68 years Larson’s Fine Jewelers announced they will shutdown after xmas.
California: Kroger announced they’re shutting down yet another Ralph’s grocery store, this time in Santa Clarita in November. Taxsucking Boeing announced 139 layoffs for December at three locations! In San Francisco, evil taxsucking British empire company BAE warned of 201 layoffs for September!
Florida: In Tampa, New York based ‘outsourcing’ company IQor shutting down beginning in December, 107 jobs lost! In Cape Coral, after 50 years Lisa Lynn Dance World shutdown, the owner blames the suck-ass economy for disappearing students: “Because of the economy, the enrollment dropped and the money wasn’t there.”-Rita Rose Meyer
Illinois: In Galva, after 18 years pet food maker All Feed Processing and Packaging shutting down. Apparently they’ve violated many OSHA workplace safety rules.
Iowa: In Evansdale, video store Digital Dog Pound shutdown.
Kentucky: In Louisville, after 34 years the Saint Matthew’s Batting Cages shutdown.
Michigan: Detroit Medical Center going to a new contracted janitor service putting 565 jobs at seven hospitals in limbo, right before xmas! Unions are suing saying it violates current deals.
Missouri: In Saint Louis, Boeing laying off 70 employees as part of the hundreds being laid off across the country in connection with crashing sales of its 777 airliner.
New Hampshire: Now bankrupt Apple computer-phone sapphire supplier GT Advanced Technologies (GTAT) now hangs 900+ jobs in limbo! Factories in Arizona and Massachusetts could be shut down in December. Local Mesa, Arizona, news reports say GTAT got big time taxpayer breaks for setting up shop there. GTAT was supposed to make unbreakable phone screens for Apple, but some reports say the screens didn’t work out the way they were supposed to.
New Jersey: Freefall Adventures skydiving now chapter 11 bankrupt busted, administrators blame the cost of repairs on two aircraft.
North Carolina: Poultry food producer House of Raeford announced they’re shutting down their turkey cooking factory by Xmas, 400 jobs lost! Company administrators say the cost to process turkeys for grocery stores has skyrocketed 250% since last year, and they know customers are not willing to pay for it! House of Raeford is also killing their contracts with 140 turkey farms! In 2013 House of Raeford killed 1060 jobs, again because of skyrocketing operating costs!
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.