Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
It’s been revealed that British empire United Kingdom based Rolls Royce is eliminating at least 3-thousand jobs around the World, including in the United States, due to crashing demand from the oil industry!
Alabama: In Brookwood, Walter Energy announced that 4-hundred coal mine employees will become unemployed within two months! Administrators blame the low price of coal on the commodity markets.
Arizona: In Tucson, after 53 years West Boutique Florist shutdown, the owner lamented “I have been too long here. I tried to build this business, never made it big….I have a good relationship, good customers but my family didn’t want it anymore…”. More trouble for Texas based Blue Bell ice cream maker. Blue Bell Creameries is closing three Grand Canyon State distribution centers, more than 1-hundred jobs lost!
California: Albertsons-Safeway issued yet another layoff WARN for Safeway’s Pleasanton HQ, saying an additional 28 people will be let go in July. In San Francisco, once again British empire United Kingdom based U.S. tax-sucker BAE revealed more layoffs, this time 104 people laid off in one day! Also in San Francisco, New York based restaurant ‘witchcraft issued a shutdown WARN for July, 29 jobs lost. However, I’ve checked their website and they’ve already removed any references to their San Francisco eatery. In Sunnyvale, NetApp issued a layoff WARN, 125 jobs lost in July! In Milpitas, SanDisk issued a layoff WARN for July, 27 jobs lost.
Florida: Yet another evil law firm going down. Butler & Hosch shutdown without warning, which is great because their specialty was foreclosing on home buyers! About 7-hundred lawyers and their staff, across the country, now jobless! However, it turns out that the executives have already got jobs lined up at other evil law firms. It turns out that Butler & Hosch spent big money on buying up ‘default assets’ from scandal ridden law firm Morris Schneider Wittstadt, three months before Butler & Hosch went bust. The CEO of Butler & Hosch called it “a step forward” for his law firm. At least two former employees are now suing the evil home stealing company.
Hawaii: Obama Care forcing taxpayer funded Hawai’i Health Systems Corporation’s to eliminate 87 jobs in its East Hawai’i Region. That includes Hilo Medical Center, Ka’u Hospital, and Hale Ho’ola Hamakua. Administrators estimate that increasing costs and decreasing Obama Care reimbursements will cost the state hospital system $7-million USD in revenue losses for fiscal year 2016! Administrators warned that Obama Care is actually restricting access to healthcare: “Some healthcare services for our communities will be reduced and disrupted….As a result of operational efficiencies and cost reductions we’ve already instituted, we are able to complete our current fiscal year intact, but those action are not enough to make up for the coming year’s shortfall….it saddens us that very capable people who help care for our community will lose their jobs.”-Dan Brinkman, interim CEO
Illinois: Obama Care forced Chicago based Allscripts Healthcare Solutions to layoff 250 healthcare information tech employees across the United States! It was implied that electronic healthcare records keeping will be, or already has, been moved to India.
Louisiana: In Lafayette, an insider leaked news that Texas based Frank’s International laid off 150 people! Administrators with the oil tool company replied that “Franks International is currently undergoing some changes.” Administrators blame oil prices, but I discovered that those “changes” include buying out a competitor for $95-million. Apparently the 150 layoffs in Louisiana are on top of earlier announced 6-hundred layoffs around the country.
Kansas: Obama Care forced Select Specialty Hospital to shutdown their ops within the Saint Francis Hospital in Topeka. Administrators directly blamed Obama Care for changing the rules for reimbursing healthcare providers for long term acute care. News reports say about 1-hundred jobs lost!
Maine: Maine Today Media sold off some of its newspaper ops resulting in at least five layoffs, but more are expected after June. There are reports that the new owner does not want to keep the old employees.
New Jersey: Cereal maker Post shutdown their Parsippany HQ and moving it to Minnesota. Administrators say 2-hundred jobs around the country will be affected!
New York: The Children’s Aid Society issued a mass layoff WARN saying they will eliminate jobs at dozens of their ops across the NYC metro area, between August and the end of December. God refuses to stop ‘his’ College of Saint Rose from eliminating 40 jobs, and slashing Obama Care benefits for employees (meaning employees will have to pay a greater share of the cost of their healthcare). Christian administrators blame The Rapture, I mean what I call Disappearing Student Syndrome (DSS). In just five years the school went from having a budget with a “modest surplus” to a “structural deficit”.
North Carolina: California based NetApp announced that 2-hundred Research Triangle Park employees will lose their jobs! Local news reports said the announcement was a “surprise”.
Pennsylvania: In Sunbury, 68 years old Pop Snyder’s restaurant shutdown. The corporate owner (RAS Bar) said the restaurant was not making enough money, even after they spent big bucks remodeling the eatery in 2014. News reports say school bus operator First Student laid off 36 people in Bethlehem.
Texas: I discovered that Houston based Frank’s International announced back in March that it would eliminate up to 6-hundred oil industry jobs! The layoffs will affect the states of Texas, Colorado, North Dakota and Pennsylvania. In Heights, Obama Care forced Select Specialty Hospital to issue a shutdown WARN for July, eliminating 222 jobs! Administrators called Obama Care “business reasons”. Obama Care forced taxpayer funded non-profit El Paso Children’s Hospital to go chapter 11 bankrupt busted!
Virginia: Alpha Natural Resources announced another 71 layoffs at its coal mining ops in Kentucky and Virginia. Virginia’s U.S. Representative Morgan Griffith stated that Alpha Natural Resources has eliminated 3-thousand 2-hundred coal mining jobs “Due to a challenged coal market and burdensome regulations over the past several years…”! Artfully Chocolate bistro shutdown. Everything is being sold in an internet auction. Another Artfully Chocolate was shutdown in 2014.
Wisconsin: UW Madison announced that 434 jobs will be eliminated no thanks to Right to Work you over Scott Walker, and other ‘lawmakers’, plan to cut $300-million from the state university system (never mind that Walker and other ‘lawmakers’ are going to spend $250-million tax dollars to help build a $500-million sports stadium)! Food processor ConAgra announced it is shutting down its Ripon cookie factory by the end of the year, at least 3-hundred jobs lost! The associated Rippin’ Good Cookie Outlet Store will also be shutdown. In Chippewa Falls, Chippewa Sand Transport laid off at least 55 employees due to crashing oil industry demand. US Silica will layoff 30 people at its Sparta sands ops by July: “We will operate the plant with a smaller workforce because we’ve seen a significant decrease in oil drilling, which has reduced demand for our sand.”-company statement
15 – 17 May 2015: “We’ve noticed an exodus…just vacancies….and lots of for rent signs…”
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.”