Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
“Donald Trump is right: America’s real unemployment rate is 40%!”-Fortune
California: What automotive industry recovery? In San Francisco, after only eight years electric motorcycle maker Mission Motors now chapter 7 bankrupt busted. The motorcycles were praised by critics, but apparently a lawsuit stopped them from getting to market.
Connecticut: GE (General Electric) blaming U.S. Congress for forcing it to ship 6-hundred U.S. jobs overseas! The exalted ‘lawmakers’ refused to fund the most important Export-Import Bank which helps U.S. companies compete globally.
Idaho: “Special Olympics Idaho is experiencing a revenue shortfall due to the statewide increased demands of our program services and athlete growth, higher cost of putting on competitions and training, coupled with the unexpected cancellation of some benefit events conducted on the organization’s behalf which were in the budget for over $60,0000.”-Laurie La Follette
For more on the confusing and corrupted Idaho Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) insurance scams read: What You Need to Know about Idaho Health Insurance
The Gem State has experienced a 30% increase in illegal immigration! Read more: Illegal Immigration Numbers in Idaho
Illinois: In Algonquin, the Gordmans store is shutting down, corporate weenies refuse to say why, other than it was the result of an “assessment”. Chicago based Tribune Media warned of massive layoffs at all its media outlets, including California’s Los Angeles Times which is reported to be hit by $10-million USD in cuts!
Indiana: In Evansville, mental health and addiction treatment center Mulberry Center shutting down by Xmas. News reports say the center has a couple hundred patients, yet only seven employees. Sounds very efficient, yet the owners of Mulberry Center, Southwestern Healthcare, say they have to consolidate healthcare services into fewer centers in order to save money because Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) greatly reduces payments.
Massachusetts: Boston Weak spoiled brats elitist students at Harvard are crying in their yogurt after learning that the two years old self serve Yogurtland shutdown: “I was actually devastated. I was genuinely devastated. Yogurtland for me as a freshman, was a place of solace.”-Lulu S. Chua-Rubenfeld
“Yogurtland was the holy place for me. My temple….”-Jon D. Young
Maryland: DC based Colonial Parking eliminating 60 jobs at the National Institutes of Health due to expired contract.
Minnesota: In Duluth, Master Bakery Outlet shutting down. It’s part of a plan by parent company, Mexico’s Grupo Bimbo, to drastically cut back on the number of operations in the United States. Grupo Bimbo (aka Bimbo Bakeries USA) has become the largest bakery op in the U.S.
New York: After 17 years eclectic (junky? claustrophobic?) Rainbow Music shutting down by the end of the month. In Brooklyn, Healthy Crush Juice Hugger Cafe shutting down to be replaced with a five story building. In NYC, after two years Luca & Bosco ice cream shop shutdown without warning. The owners told local newsies that they’re forced to look for new location, but will continue catering and wholesale ops.
North Carolina: After 65 years the Colony furniture store on Providence Road shutdown.
Ohio: The second largest salty snack food maker in the U.S., North Carolina’s Snyder’s-Lance, shutting down three factories in Columbus! Snyder’s-Lance is joining the consolidation trend and moving production closer to North Carolina. In Frazeysburg, the Ross IGA grocery store shutdown due to crashing sales. Local news reports say customers will have to drive 20 minutes to the nearest grocery store. About a week after it was revealed that Piketon American Centrifuge Plant uranium enrichment factory was being shutdown by the Obama regime, local unions are now reporting that more than 7-hundred people will lose their jobs!
Texas: In Texas City, British empire’s BP (British Petroleum) announced 36 layoffs at their paraxylene operations. In Naples, the only local grocery store, Pruett’s Food, announced it was shutting down due to Walmart moving into town. But after the announcement sales at Pruett’s skyrocketed, news reports say the residents of Naples have declared war on Walmart! The owner of Pruett’s said if the sales can stay up then he’ll stay open.
Virginia: Newport News Shipbuilding laid off 480 salaried employees! It’s part of their plan to eliminate 1-thousand 5-hundred jobs by the end of 2016!
West Virginia: State administrators report that their unemployment assistance fund is almost broke, due to massive layoffs in the coal mining industry: “We have seen a decrease in the Trust Fund balance and we are watching this extremely closely. I would say we are in a yellow for a caution light on the trust fund.”-Beth Carenbauer, WorkForce West Virginia
13-14 September 2015: “Dear customers…we have closed our doors…”
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed
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.”