Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
California: Obama Care causes promising nursing company to go bankrupt? In Sacramento, Response 1 Medical Staffing now chapter 11 bankrupt busted. Administrators blame it on an embezzlement case. In Carlsbad, Ortho Organizers issued a layoff WARN for June, 97 people to become jobless. In Irvine, MV Transportation issued a shutdown WARN for June, 436 people will become jobless! Albertsons-Safeway announced it will shutdown its Riverside La Sierra Plaza Vons and two Bakersfield Vons in May, because they are “not meeting company goals.” At least 2-hundred jobs lost! Albertsons-Safeway issued yet another layoff WARN for Safeway’s Pleasanton HQ, 96 more jobs lost in June. Walmart shutdown their Pico Rivera store, without warning, 533 jobs lost! News reports said Walmart shutdown five stores altogether, but they’ve issued only one WARN, for their Pico Rivera store. News reports say 2-thousand 2-hundred Californians were rendered jobless overnight! Some people say it’s because Walmart administrators were tired of hearing complaints from their employees!
Florida: Walmart shutdown store number 3436, in Brandon, 429 jobs lost! You know the economy is bad when Walmart starts shutting down stores! In Jacksonville, Obama Care forced Medimix, & First Coast Health to issue a WARN saying 95 employees will become unemployed between now and September.
Idaho: In Idaho Falls, after repeated denials Curtiss-Wright Scientech laid off an undisclosed number of employees. No WARN has been filed with state employment administrators, but the Idaho Department of Labor says they’ve heard rumors of layoffs since October 2014: “We don’t have any official numbers at all. Just simply word-of-mouth is about 30 people, or so.”-Christopher Saint Jeor, Idaho Department of Labor
Illinois: Alton Steel said it must furlough employees for at least three weeks, about 3-hundred jobs affected! Administrators blame the crashing global steel market.
Massachusetts: Obama Care medical device tax the final straw for medical device maker Grove Instruments, who is now chapter 7 bankrupt busted and liquidating.
Michigan: What automotive industry recovery? Drivetrain and brake maker Merito announced it is shutting down its Heath factory over the next six months.
Mississippi: The Greenwood School District laying off 28 people.
New Jersey: Freshcut Produce issued a layoff WARN saying 1-hundred employees will become unemployed in June! Company administrators blamed “economic reasons”. Obama Care forcing Continuum Health Alliance to announce they will kill off 88 jobs in June. Administrators referred to Obama Care as “today’s rapidly changing health care landscape”.
New Mexico: After 41 years Tony’s Rental Sales & Service sold all their stuff and shutdown: “Everything has to come to an end.”-Tony Tapia
New York: Food service company Sodexo told state employment administrators that 167 people will become unemployed at the Niagara University, in June! This is on top of the 193 jobs lost in Loudonville, announced last month! GAD Bakeries joining exodus from The Empire State by issuing a shutdown WARN for their Vanilla Fudge, Sweet Dream Desserts and Great American Dessert Company ops, saying 150 people will become jobless in July! GAD Bakeries is moving to New Jersey. In Brooklyn, Quality Transportation reported they’ve lost their contract with NYC, 151 jobs lost by June!
North Dakota: In Grand Forks, after a year women’s clothing store Hey Ocean shutdown. The owner admitted she was targeting Canadians, maybe that’s why the store didn’t do so good.
Pennsylvania: In Bethlehem, Obama Care killed off Metro Ambulance Service!
South Carolina: The King Street Grille in the Citadel Mall shutdown: “Due to uncontrollable circumstances, we have determined that it is in the best interest of the King Street Grille as a company to close the Citadel Mall location.”
Texas: What automotive industry recovery? Parts supplier to General Motors (GM), Japan owned (Mitsui) Android Industries, issued a WARN saying that in June 589 Texans will become jobless! It sounds like Android is moving 131 jobs to Detroit, Michigan, where the company is getting $620-thousand in tax exemptions. The San Benito School District finally admitted they overspent $12-million USD, and now a as yet to be determined amount of employees will become unemployed at the end of the school year.
West Virginia: Murray American Energy laid off 214 people at three coal mines! Company administrators are pissed off, blaming “…the ongoing destruction of the United States coal industry by President Barack Obama, and his supporters, by the increased utilization of natural gas to generate electricity, and by the extremely excessive coal severance tax in the State of West Virginia.”
Wisconsin: Food service company Sodexo told state employment administrators that 3-hundred people will become unemployed at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, in June! Sodexo lost their contract.
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) no longer issues mass layoff reports: “On March 1, 2013, President Obama ordered into effect the across-the- board spending cuts (commonly referred to as sequestration) required by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as amended. Under the order, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) must cut its current budget by more than $30 million, 5 percent of the current 2013 appropriation, by September 30, 2013. In order to help achieve these savings and protect core programs, the BLS will eliminate two programs, including Mass Layoff Statistics, and all ‘measuring green jobs’ products. This news release is the final publication of monthly mass layoff survey data.”