Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
Iconic U.S. Steel shutting down operations in Pennsylvania and Texas, at least 260 jobs lost!
British empire Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS, which operates in the United States as well) could totally fail. It was discovered that the mega-bank is missing $168-billion USD! The British taxpayers bailed out the bank, and are now the official owners. The revelation was made in the new book Shredded: Inside RBS, The Bank That Broke Britain.
Alabama: In Birmingham, Athenahealth announced it will shutdown its Liberty Park office by 2015, 64 jobs lost.
Alaska: Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation eliminated 160 positions! It’s blame on federal funding cuts for Indian Health Service, and Obama Care. At the end of 2013 the hospital operator laid off 50 employees.
California: In Bakersfield, Kern Medical Center administrators once again made public statements that Obama Care is causing the county run hospital to lose millions of dollars every month! The Kern County Board of Supervisors will decide if it’s worth it to keep the hospital open. In Culver City, Disney’s takeover of the multichannel network Maker Studios resulted in at least 38 employees losing their jobs. In Orange, business manager Service Response Partners announced they will layoff 78 people at the end of July. In Chatsworth, Peerless Building Maintenance announced they will layoff 89 employees in August. In Corona, legal drugs pusher Actavis continues to kill jobs, this time 58 employees will be let go in August. In Los Angeles, Xerox announced they will kill 51 jobs in August. In Modesto, SkyWest Airlines killed its Modesto City-County Airport flights, blaming government regulations. SkyWest was the only airline with regular flights out of the airport.
Connecticut: Hartford HealthCare announced it has eliminated 350 positions! Hospitals officials had to cut $200-million from their budget, blaming Obama Care for “massive reductions in government reimbursement” and creating a 25% reduction in people seeking care at hospitals. In Bridgeport, Too Big to Jail Citizens Bank announced it will kill 125 jobs beginning in August!
Florida: British empire Canada based Potash Corporation laid off 56 employees at their Suwannee River Chemical Plant. This is the company’s second round of layoffs, which began in December 2013. When the culling is finally done, 248 jobs will have been destroyed! The Florida Panthers laid off at least 30 people, including a VP. Team officials blame crashing ticket sales on the bad economy. In Daytona Beach, gun parts maker AO Precision Manufacturing laid off 40 employees. Company officials blame it on crashing gun sales: “The biggest year for gun business was 2013, but it started falling off the face of the Earth in October.”-Steve Koch, president
Georgia: Muscogee County School District eliminated 113 jobs (69 occupied positions and 44 vacant positions)! It’s due to funding problems, but 19 teachers were fired specifically for poor performance.
Illinois: In Rockford, after 101 years, and surviving the Great Depression, Lundgren’s Camera and Video shutdown. The owner blames digital.
Kansas: In Leawood, a Hy-Vee grocery store shutdown, however the pharmacy is still open. Company officials wanted to remodel the store but blame city officials for playing games with permits and/or zoning laws.
Maryland: Dimensions Healthcare System eliminated 62 positions at two hospitals. Employees say they received at least three notices from hospital officials stating that as many as 500 healthcare workers could lose their jobs by the end of the year! Hospital officials hope a partnership with University of Maryland Medical System will save them from Obama Care. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC, a government mandated privately run company) shutdown Slavie Federal Savings Bank. Most of the assets were sold to Bay Bank, the FDIC gets stuck with the rest.
Massachusetts: The Worcester Telegram & Gazette began laying off at least 20 employees as the Halifax Media Group took over. In Holyoke, after 54 years the Mount Tom coal fired electricity maker shutting down this year. 28 jobs lost. In Cambridge, video game maker Harmonix laid off 37 people.
Michigan: According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture 13.4% of Michiganians are unable to buy enough food. In Genoa Township, reports that the Mitt Romney wunderkind Staples shutdown. In failed state Detroit, it was revealed that a taxpayer funded job training program resulted in very few people getting hired. Marathon Petroleum got a $175-million tax break from the city to put people through a job training program in conjunction with a community college. But dozens of people who went through the program say they were never hired, even though they completed the training and an internship with the company. To add insult to injury local news reports say it turns out that many of the positions supposedly open required no special training! In Macomb County, reports say taxsucker General Dynamics and British empire company BAE (formerly known as British Aerospace) could kill 300+ jobs, due to federal spending cuts for the new Ground Combat Vehicle.
Missouri: In Kansas City, after only four years Pandolfi’s Deli shutdown. The owner said he was ready for something different.
Mississippi: According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture 20.9% of Mississippians are unable to buy enough food.
New Mexico: Chevron shutting down their 100 years old Questa molybdenum mine, 300 jobs lost! Company officials blame crashing market prices and skyrocketing operating costs: “We’re not in a position to be a cost effective producer anymore. In fact, we’re the highest cost producer in the world in terms of the global market.”-David Partridge, CEO
New York: In a press conference out of NYC, Germany based Siemens announced they will kill 11600 jobs globally (including U.S. jobs) by the end of 2016! It might have something to do with the company’s attempts to take over turbine maker Alstom. In Henrietta, Kango Academy and Play Centre shutting down, apparently the cost of operations are so high that no customer could afford to pay a fee that truley reflected that cost. In Niskayuna, Barnes & Noble continues shutting down bookstores. Local news reports said the company refused to say how many people became unemployed. In Brooklyn, God refused to stop Bishop Ford Central Catholic High School from shutting down in August, 83 jobs lost. In NYC, Williams Lea Corporate Information Solutions shutting down in September, 51 jobs lost. In Melville, Sbarro pizza restaurant shutting down in September, at least 43 jobs lost.
North Carolina: In Morganton, furniture maker Heritage Home Group shutdown yet another factory, 87 jobs lost. The company has been shutting down factories since the beginning of the year, a far cry from 2013 when they told a bankruptcy court they were “a well-capitalized company”! That is until they took over the bankrupt Furniture Brands’ company, and that was all she wrote. Local news reports stated that between Furniture Brands and Heritage Home Group North Carolina has lost 9113 furniture making jobs! In Piedmont, the Obama Care medical device tax is forcing yet another company out of the country. After 60 years Arrow International is killing 600 jobs and moving production to Mexico by 2016! In Charlotte, after 15 years Miro Spanish Grille shutting down in July. The property owner refused to renew the restaurant’s lease.
Ohio: Allen County Child Support Agency laid off three employees. It has been revealed that Too Big to Jail Fifth Third Bank killed one thousand jobs over the past 15 months! The revelation came at a stockholders meeting, to the delight of the ‘investors’. Bank officials credit their secret job layoffs to going digital.
Pennsylvania: In Ellwood, Texas based steel fabricator Sabre Industries shutting down this summer, 80 jobs lost. Company officials blamed the bad economy for crashing sales.
Texas: In Fort Worth, after only one year of operation Motorola Mobility shutting down their Moto X factory, 700 jobs lost by Xmas 2014! Company officials blame it on crashing cell phone sales, but it was revealed that Moto X production is being offshored to China and Brazil. In Austin, Paggi House restaurant shutdown, the owner blames “progress”. Garrido’s restaurant shutdown, the owner wants to try something new.
Vermont: Switzerland based electronics maker TE Connectivity continues to kill jobs, this time 36 people let go. The company is consolidating operations.
Virginia: In Chester, German eyeglass maker Carl Zeiss laying off 73 people and consolidating production. The company will now make lenses in Oregon and Mexico.
West Virginia: McDowell County Commission laid off at least eight employees. It’s blamed on crashing tax revenues, especially taxes collected on coal mining, due to the fact that coal mines have shut down.
Wisconsin: GE Healthcare announced it will kill at least 90 medical device manufacturing jobs by the end of the 1st quarter 2015. Apparently Obama Care has reduced demand for such products. Airadigm Communications-AirFire Mobile shutting down six stores across the state, 55 jobs lost.
27 – 31 May 2014: “the end of an era”
The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) doesn’t count the hundreds of layoffs involving less than 50 people each, in its mass layoff reports. It also doesn’t count all the little ‘mom & pop’ businesses that shut down.
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