Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
California: Reports coming in that San Jose based ebay, and its soon to be sold off electronic payment processor PayPal, began laying off employees. In Palmdale, taxsucker Lockheed Martin issued a WARN saying 74 people will become unemployed in March. Japan owned Sony Pictures issued a WARN saying they […] Continue Reading…
Sears Auto Center is holding a contest for the city with the most potholes, why? Because it means big bucks for them repairing wheel alignments and tires: “The city that records the most submissions will receive an exclusive deal on alignment services for their pothole-ridden city at the end of the program at nearby […] Continue Reading…
Farah Province: The provincial police chief is accusing Iranian border police of attacking Afghan workers who crossed into Iran. The police boss says Iranian police took away most of the Afghans, but his personnel were able to recover the body of one person who was killed. The police administrator gave no other details, but many […] Continue Reading…
In Warner Robins, Georgia, it’s been revealed that plans to replace the Kmart were already in place before Sears Holdings made the announcement last Summer. So the whole thing was a deal between Sears Holdings and Texas based At Home (formerly known as Garden Ridge). By the way, the new At Home store still […] Continue Reading…
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Japan based video game maker Sega Sammy said it will push 300 employees to “voluntarily retire”, that includes employees in the United States!
Alabama: Cafe and market V.Richards shutting down, the store owner made the decision suddenly saying he will chase “other ventures”.
Arizona: What real estate market recovery? The […] Continue Reading…
Canada
Ontario has 11 cases of measles. Of note is that none of the infected Canadians traveled outside Ontario. It has been confirmed that at least one of the infected adults, in the Greater Toronto Area, had been vaccinated for measles!
Manitoba health administrators report an infant is infected. The infant is too young for full […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
Alabama: U.S. Steel issued a massive WARN saying 16-hundred Fairfield employees are on notice that layoffs could happen at any time! The market conditions are so bad that U.S. Steel administrators say they cannot predict exactly how many people will become jobless, or when it will happen. […] Continue Reading…
Ventura County health administrators, in California, are now warning that measles has been detected in dozens of restaurants and stores, including a Vons and a Albertson’s grocery stores, both in Oxnard.
The new owner of Safeway, Cerberus Albertsons, is being forced to negotiate with unionized Safeway employees in California. United Food & Commercial Workers Local 8 […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
Canadian based international restaurant chain Tim Hortons (with at least 807 restaurants in the U.S.) killed off 350 of its HQ jobs in Oakville, Ontario, as well as regional corporate jobs! That’s according to Canadian news reports. It makes sense because Tim Hortons was recently taken over […] Continue Reading…
In New York, the taxpayers of Cattaraugus County are being forced to help fund a $3-million project to turn a vacant Kmart into a ‘tourist attraction’! Officially it’s called a mixed use tourism development.
Reports out of Illinois reveal that the new president of Kmart, Alasdair James (who’s a former British empire Tesco executive), spent […] Continue Reading…