Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns: California: Has the drought killed off Golden State fruit? Fruit distributor Fruit Patch issued a WARN saying they’re shutting down their Dinuba operations in July, 132 jobs lost! Local news reports blame the vulture capitalist owners, American Capital, saying there are unconfirmed reports that Fruit Patch assets are being sold […]
Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns: Alabama: In Helena, after 13 years the owners of Frankie’s Market Café announced they are shutting down in April. They blame rising costs of operations, especially utility cots. Jefferson County Board of Education will beginning laying off 160 employees in July! California: In San Pablo, Obama Care forcing Doctors […]
Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns: California: The day after I wrote that state Employment Development Department stopped posting WARNs, BOOM, now there’s a whole lotta new WARNs posted! Apparently a lot of companies were late in notifying state administrators about their layoffs and shutdowns! In Santa Monica, International Coffee & Tea issued a […]
Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns: California: Reports revealed that Palo Alto based Hewlett Packard will kill off 41-thousand jobs by the end of 2014!!! As many as 32-thousand people around the World have already been rendered jobless!!! But wait there’s more! Those same reports say evil Meg Whitman is planning on killing off […]
Incomplete list of residential and commercial construction industry job destruction that took place, or were announced, from July to December 2014: The U.S. Commerce Department reports a 9.3% drop in new U.S. home construction in the month of June. When broken down by region, the southern states led the country with a 29.6% drop! This is […]
Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns: Arkansas: Commodity broker Turner Grain Merchandising now chapter 11 bankrupt busted. Farmers are now accusing the company of ripping them off by ay least $100-million USD. Lawsuits say the commodity broker never paid them for grain deliveries, the questions now are where is the grain and where is […]
Incomplete list of publicly announced education layoffs & school shutdowns from January to June 2014: Alabama: Hoover City Schools laid off nine employees. School officials said that despite a growing student population, local taxes began declining suddenly in 2009-10 (isn’t that when the ‘recession’ officially ended?) and it doesn’t help that Obama Care has drastically […]
Incomplete list of announced United States food supply shutdowns for the month of August, 2014: Many food suppliers/distributors are consolidating operations and killing jobs due to the collapsing grocery store and restaurant industries, as well as rising costs of food production. Alabama: In Dothan, after three years Dakota Coffee Works shutdown. The owner blamed skyrocketing costs […]
Australia: The British empire country is about to take partial control of flu vaccine supply in the United States. Specifically, Aussie pharmaceutical giant CSL has made an offer to take over Novartis’ North Carolina U.S.A. flu vaccine operations. Novartis is based in Switzerland and is in big trouble primarily because of numerous revelations that […]
Incomplete list of announced United States food supply shutdowns for the month of March, 2014: Many food suppliers/distributors are consolidating operations and killing jobs due to the collapsing grocery store and restaurant industries, as well as rising costs of food production. Arizona: In Phoenix, after 50 years Karsh’s Bakery shutdown. The owner blames the failed […]