27 October 2016 (11:22 UTC-07 Tango 01) 06 Aban 1395/25 Muharram 1438/27 Wu Zu 4714
The number of babies born in the U.S. to immigrant parents still out number that of births by citizens.
“In 2014, about 275,000 babies were born to unauthorized-immigrant parents in the U.S., accounting for about 7 percent of all U.S. births, and 32 percent of all U.S. births to foreign-born mothers.”–Pew Research Center
“Long-term growth in total U.S. births driven by the foreign born, who account for 23% of all babies.”
Births by illegal immigrants has been driving the total birth rate of the U.S. since the 1970s!
Incomplete list of U.S. Mining/Industrial/Logistics job loss announcements and shutdowns for June 2016.
Arizona: Switzerland owned solar panel maker ABB shutting down its Phoenix-Sky Harbor factory and moving to Italy and Latvia! At least 89 U.S. jobs will be lost.
California: Maker of foam cushion products Carpenter Company issued a shutdown WARN for their Lathrop factory, 198 jobs gone by mid-August! ‘Product development’ company Thermo Fisher issued a layoff WARN for their Carlsbad ops, 33 jobs gone by October. Los Angeles based independent film distribution company Alchemy preparing for bankruptcy. Republic of China (Taiwan) owned, but Newbury Park based, Giant (aka Giant USA, Giant Bicycles) warned of mass layoffs due to “flattish sales”. The bicycle maker says ‘soft market conditions’ have forced them to begin consolidating sales and distribution operations, which means people will lose their jobs. France owned security camera and equipment maker Pelco laid off at least 43 people in Clovis. Administrators say the current economy is forcing them to “focus” their operations. In San Francisco, British empire United Kingdom based BAE revealed it laid off 54 people in May. Alcoa issued a layoff WARN for their Fontana operations, 189 jobs gone by August! National Retail Transportation issued a shutdown WARN for its Fontana location, 125 jobs gone by the end of July! Also in Fontana, Ryder laying off 47 people by August. Bankrupt Sports Authority shutdown their Fontana distribution warehouse, 122 people jobless! In Chowchilla, Brake Parts continues its shutdown, 65 people laid off by the end of July. Benz Sanitation-Propane issued a layoff WARN, 132 people in Tehachapi jobless by August! Bearings maker SKF USA issued a layoff WARN for San Diego, 55 jobs gone by the end of September.
Electric car maker Tesla has been caught directly importing migrants to work in The Golden State! The San Jose Mercury News reports that the migrants are not legal H-1B workers but are illegal immigrants. The newspaper tracked an immigrant from Slovenia who worked for Tesla. When confronted Tesla administrators flat denied employing the immigrant. Irvine based hobby industry remote controlled vehicle maker Novak Electronics (aka TeamNovak) suddenly shutdown after 38 years: “We are announcing that we have decided to close down our operations effective today. This decision was difficult to make, as this has been a family business spanning two generations.”-Novak family statement
Save Mart issued a shutdown WARN for their Vacaville distribution center, 325 jobs gone by mid-August! Food packager Pactiv shutdown their Vernon operations, 106 jobs gone! In Salinas, Foothill Packing has been fined $235-thousand USD for falsely firing U.S. citizens and replacing them with H-1B migrants: “The employer claimed the workers — who were U.S. citizens — had failed to meet production standards. Investigators found that many of them had consistently exceeded the production of many of the foreign workers doing the same jobs, yet Foothill did not terminate these foreign workers.“-U.S. Department of Labor press release
Colorado: Bankrupt Arch Coal eliminating 80 jobs at its West Elk Mine. Denver based Triangle USA Petroleum now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.
Connecticut: Korea owned Doosan Fuel Cell America revealed it laid off at least 33 employees in the past few months. The mayor of South Windsor said company administrators told him they had to “regroup”. The company makes 4-hundred kw natural gas powered fuel cells. Packaging maker Norampac New England shutting down their Thompson operations, 63 jobs gone between July and August.
Florida: Caterpillar issued a WARN for its Work Tools ops in Jacksonville, 63 jobs gone by the end of November.
Georgia: Maker of fake grass AstroTurf chapter 11 bankrupt busted after losing a legal fight over patent rights. General Dynamics owned Gulfstream Aerospace ‘offering’ voluntary buyouts of employees, starting in August. It was revealed after news was leaked to local news media by employees. In December 2015, it was revealed that Gulfstream Aerospace eliminated 1-thousand 1-hundred U.S. jobs.
Idaho: 15 years after shutting down their Power County phosphorus operations FMC declared their EPA superfund site is now ready to be the new home to Rupert based Valley Agronomics‘ new fertilizer plant (Valley Agronomics is owned by Minnesota based Land O’Lakes). The arrogant ‘christian’ governor of Idaho, Butch Otter, proudly boasted that this was a sign the area’s economy has “risen from the ashes” and then flat lied by saying “…when somebody says we’re gonna return, we’re gonna come back! You can trust us that we will keep our promise in coming back. I want you to remember this day Valley Agronomics and FMC because they told us that! They told us that we can trust them…” This is a lie because it’s not FMC “coming back”, and Valley Agronomics never operated out of the site before! The so called Phoenix Site (as declared by Otter) will employ a measly 50 people once it’s up and running in 2017 (incompetent local TV stations have been reporting 70 jobs created, but those are the temporary construction jobs). I don’t think that qualifies as a local economy that’s “risen from the ashes”.
Otter also quietly revealed to local news media that the once touted Solar Farm project at the Pocatello Airport is dead.
Illinois:Rex Energy shutting down their petroleum extraction ops near Bridgeport, 102 jobs gone by mid-August! The Aurora Laundry Company issued a shutdown WARN, 64 jobs lost by August due tot the linen supply business being sold. Trunk Club shutting down its Goose Island distribution center, 250 jobs lost under a new deal with retailer Nordstrom! In Elgin, design company Southern Graphic Systems issued a shutdown WARN, 30 jobs gone by the mid-July. In Edwardsville, wholesaler United Pet Group issued a layoff WARN, 48 in-house employees unemployed by mid-August due to their jobs being contracted-out. In Bedford Park, Northstar Aerospace lost their contract, 226 jobs gone! In Chicago, Georgia packaging maker WestRock issued a layoff WARN, 173 jobs gone due “to market conditions”! Pony Tools revealed they laid off 61 people back in mid-May. Lake Forest based car parts maker UCI Holdings-International now chapter 11 bankrupt busted, including their subsidiaries Airtex, ASC Industries and Champion. Chicago based bicycle parts maker SRAM laid off 12 people due to 12 months of down sales: “The quarters before were soft as well. It’s been cumulative. Certainly the softness of the last 12 months has not helped. It’s definitely lowered the water level and exposed the rocks.”-Stan Day, president
Indiana: General Electric (GE) shutting down its Bloomington fridgerator factory. The remaining 329 employees to become unemployed due to a 76% crash in sales since 2008! 130 people were laid off in 2013. In Middlebury, motor-home builder Evergreen RV suddenly shutdown (employees were simply told not to come to work) 4-hundred jobs lost! Local news reports say up until the sudden shutdown employees were told the company was doing well financially, and was actually in ‘growth mode’. Some employees had just been hired. Motor-home dealers confirmed they were told the company is dead, because when a company goes out of business the product’s warranty is void. So far company administrators have refused to explain what is going on.
Iowa: What automotive industry recovery? The maker of CO cooling systems for Jeep Liberty, Modine Manufacturing, announced more layoffs at their Washington factory. An additional 60 people becoming jobless on top of those already laid off, in preparation for production to move to Mexico. Canadian Pacific Railroad shutting down their Nahant maintenance shop, 21 jobs lost. In Spencer, Ireland based Eaton Hydraulics eliminating 70 U.S. citizen jobs over the next 12 months. Administrators claim the economy is worse than they thought and they need to “expand some of our restructuring and cost-reduction activities this year.” However, the Sioux City Journal revealed that “Eaton had been training Chinese nationals here in recent months.”
Kansas: LMIAerospace shutting down a Wichita sheet metal factory and moving it to Mexico, due to the crashing U.S. aircraft manufacturing industry: “With customer demand on these platforms declining significantly, and in a competitive pricing environment we had to make the difficult decision to close this operation and move its remaining work….”-Joe DeMartino, coo
Kentucky: Blackhawk Mining issued a shutdown WARN, more than 2-hundred jobs gone between now and August!
Maine: De-inking mill Cascades Auburn Fiber shutting down in July, 45 jobs lost due to the crashing paper market. Twin Rivers Paper Company shutting down paper machine 3 at its Madawaska mill, 49 jobs gone by July. It’s the result of $12-million USD in upgrades to make the paper mill more efficient.
Maryland: In an example of what I call Ripple Effect Layoffs, Baltimore based sports clothing maker Under Armour (they claim to be an American company yet spell ‘armor’ the British empire way) admitted the massive bankruptcy and shutdown of hundreds of Sports Authority stores will cause Under Armour to lose $23-million in its 2nd quarter of 2016! Japan owned plastic maker Hedwin laying off at least 129 people in Baltimore, by the end of August! Hedwin is moving operations to Delaware, and the Baltimore property has been sold to a developer.
Michigan: What automotive industry recovery? Detroit based General Motors (GM) is creating 7-hundred new jobs, not in the United States but across the northern border in Toronto, Canada! Local news media confused as France based vehicle interior maker Faurecia North America has been caught firing employees just as fast as it hires new ones! 105 employees in Sterling Heights will be laid off by July, yet 90 new employees will be hired at the same time at the same location. The new hires are partially paid for by a $350-thousand USD taxpayer funded state grant! So much for the ‘free market’, welcome to covert socialism. The consolidation of Midland based Dow Chemical and Dow Corning will result in 2-thousand 5-hundred jobs lost and the shutdown of a factory in North Carolina and in Japan! Independent drug wholesaler Frank W. Kerr Company suddenly shutdown due to “an unexpected business circumstance.”
New Jersey: Aquity Brands Lighting issued a WARN, 168 people in Edison jobless by mid-August!
New Mexico:Peabody laid off 65 miners at its El Segundo and Lee Ranch mines. Texas based oil field service company Baker Hughes admitted to laying off employees in Farmington, due to “consolidation” ops, but refused to say how many.
New York: Toy maker Fischer Price laying off 75 people at its Aurora toy factory. The jobs will now go to a cheap-o contractor from another country! Process equipment designer Buflovak issued a shutdown WARN for their Buffalo operations, 53 jobs gone by the end of September. In Jamaica, Ultimate Aircraft issued a mass layoff WARN, 145 employees unemployed by August!
North Carolina: What automotive industry recovery? Ryder shutting down its Charlotte GM (General Motors) logistic operations, 124 jobs gone by the end of August! Germany owned truck maker Freightliner laying off 8-hundred people in Gaston County, due to crashing sales!
North Dakota: Maker of mini-excavators Bobcat eliminating 140 jobs at their Gwinnier factory, by Xmas! They’re consolidating operations.
Ohio: Bendix laid off eight people at its commercial vehicle brakes factory in Elyra, and another 16 employees elsewhere, blaming the trucking industry: “Since the start of 2016, build levels at truck and trailer manufacturers have declined rapidly. This decline has now trickled to the industry’s primary suppliers, including Bendix. The layoffs were the result of the down market conditions….”
Oklahoma: Kimray laying off 120 people by Friday, blaming the oil industry BS! Oil field company Seventy Seven Energy chapter 11 bankrupt busted and turning itself over to its bond holders, due to $1-billion USD in debts. D&L Oil Tools conducted a second round of layoffs, 53 jobs lost. In February they laid off 78 people.
Oregon: In Portland, Germany owned truck maker Western Star laying off 170 workers due to crashing sales!
Pennsylvania: Chemical company Koppers issued a shutdown WARN for their Clairton factory, 46 jobs gone by August due to the crashing aluminum industry. Victor Paving and Construction fined $115-thousand USD for failing to pay employees for overtime worked during the past three years! The U.S. Department of Labor says company administrators actually ‘doctored’ employees’ pay records to make it look like they did not work overtime. Japan based Fujifilm shutting down their Hunt Chemicals factory in Dayton, 84 jobs lost. Like most corporations Fujifilm-Hunt is being consolidated.
South Carolina: British empire Canada based bicycle distributor Hawley-Lambert laid off 13 people at its Lexington office. Those jobs are being consolidated back to Canada due to crashing sales.
Tennessee: In Chattanooga, after 45 years MetalTech shutting down their machine shop, 46 jobs lost. General Electric (GE) shutting down three Alstom factories, 235 jobs gone by Xmas due to the crashing railroad industry!
Texas: Dallas based Maxus Energy chapter 11 bankrupt busted, blaming it on the cleanup costs for New Jersey’s Passaic River. Hercules Offshore now chapter 11 bankrupt busted. Draw Another Circle owned Hastings told 375 distribution and HQ employees in Amarillo they will become jobless within 60 days, due to bankruptcy! Weatherford International confirmed they laid off at least 90 people in Katy. The same place where it was revealed that most of the oil workers are migrants: “80 to 100 families have relocated to their home country primarily because of job changes and changes in the economy.”-Richard Rowell, business owner in Katy City
Vermont: Coffee products maker Keurig still in trouble, now 108 people being laid off as production of Keurig Kold is shutdown! It’s blamed on non-stop crashing sales.
Washington: Accell North America’s Seattle Bike Supply has been sold to British empire Canada based Hawley-Lambert. Boeing issued two layoff WARNs for their Puget Sound operations, 211 employees unemployed by mid-July, followed by 99 employees becoming unemployed by the end of August! Once again Seattle based Amazon is in trouble. This time it’s being fined $350-thousand USD by the FAA after United Parcel Service employees were sickened by a chemical reaction in some packages from Amazon. Those packages were filled with chemical cleaners, which are banned in the U.S. from being shipped by air. The chemical cleaning product is called Amazing Liquid Fire, and the UPS employees said they felt like they were burning after fumes came from the package.
Washington DC: The U.S. Department of Labor said the month of May saw the lowest new job growth since 2010, only 38-thousand new jobs created. Unofficial propagandists of unAmerican corporate America, main stream news media ‘experts’, had been promising at least 160-thousand new jobs! The U.S. Department of Labor tracks people considered “not in labor force” in their official unemployment reports, but for some reason the main stream news media refuses to publish the data.
The U.S. Department of Labor is also dealing with an issue I’ve experienced myself; your employer suddenly says you’re now a contractor, reduces your pay and ends benefits. It’s called Employee Misclassification.
Wisconsin: Ameridrives Power Transmissions issued a shutdown WARN for their Green Bay factory, 37 jobs lost by November. The maker of parts for heavy duty “off highway” vehicles is joining the rest of unAmerican corporate America in consolidating operations. In Manitowoc, after 60 years Groz-Beckert shutting down their Foster Needle felting needle factory, 64 jobs gone between July 2016 and January 2017. In Milwaukee, Global Industrial Services issued a shutdown WARN, 27 jobs lost by mid-August. Air Wisconsin Airlines also issued a shutdown WARN for their Milwaukee location, 53 jobs gone by mid-August.
Wyoming: Buckskin Mine laying off an additional 45 employees, local news media reports it brings total Buckskin Mine layoffs close to 6-hundred since 2010! Uranium miner Ur-Energy eliminating 12 jobs due to crashing demand (and prices) for the intensely radioactive metal.
I found a 2010 AFL-CIO analysis (titled The Public Availability of WARN Notices: Lack of Accessibility and Disclosure…) which proves what I’ve been suspecting in my search of state WARN notices; most states are not complying with federal WARN regulations and are not publicizing or tracking mass layoffs.
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.”
23 June 2016 / 18:26 UTC-07 Tango 01 (04 Tir 1395/18 Ramadan 1437/20 Jia-Wu 4714)
I’ve lived in The Gem State for 20 years and since 2013 there’s been a crime wave like never seen before in Idaho (current official Idaho State Police records go up to 2013-14), yet most of our local news media won’t talk about it. The crime wave coincides with skyrocketing immigration, from both domestic (from within the U.S.) and foreign (outside the U.S.) sources.
The Economist: In their report Twin Falls, a conservative city in Idaho, likes refugees, the LDS (Mormon) church is implicated in a massive immigrant/refugee operation going back to the 1970s, mainly to benefit Mormon farmers with cheap labor
Incomplete list of U.S. job loss announcements and shutdowns.
Alabama: What construction industry recovery? In Decatur, after 24 years Marvin’s Building Materials shutting down by July.
California: In Salinas, Foothill Packing has been fined $235-thousand USD for falsely firing U.S. citizens and replacing them with H-1B migrants: “The employer claimed the workers — who were U.S. citizens — had failed to meet production standards. Investigators found that many of them had consistently exceeded the production of many of the foreign workers doing the same jobs, yet Foothill did not terminate these foreign workers.“-U.S. Department of Labor press release
Idaho: The Fire Chief of Chubbuck resigned in connection to the planned merger of the city of Chubbuck’s fire department with the city of Pocatello (both cities are dealing with cash problems despite continually telling the taxpayers the economy is good): “Whether the consolidation goes forward or not it’s not going to be affected by whom the chief is at the time.”-Joshua Ellis, Chubbuck city councilman
Speaking of Chubbuck and Pocatello, the county of Bannock made an appeal to property owners to pay their property taxes, warning of fines and interest charges. It sounded like the county is having problems with property tax collections, which would not be happening if the economy was good. I gotta message for Bannock County: “You can’t squeeze blood from a turnip.”
Kansas: In Wichita, Via Christi Health eliminating 70 more jobs on top of the 80 they’ve already cut! Yet, at the same time hospital administrators told local news that they plan to hire 80 people!
Michigan: Benton Harbor Area Schools eliminating 43 jobs in an effort to save $1.4-million USD. However, local news sources say the district is also planning on creating 12 new positions.
New Jersey: Inspira Medical Center eliminating at least 67 jobs at two locations by August. Saks Fifth Avenue eliminating 137 Short Hills jobs by September!
New York: Old Country Buffet issued a shutdown WARN for their Bay Shore operation, 42 jobs gone by mid-September. Unnamed sources say the Daily News laid off 22 people, after attempts to sell the newspaper failed.
North Carolina: Charlotte based Too Big to Jail Bank of America announced it will ‘accelerate’ its job destruction by 8-thousand jobs as part of its “digital banking” plan! It’s blamed on a sudden 15% increase in people using digital banks instead of brick-n-mortar banks (never mind the fact that increase was forced by BoA shutting down 23% of its offices since 2009).
Oregon: Law firms (American Immigration Lawyers Association and American Immigration Council) in Oregon are suing the federal government over the H-1B program, not because H-1B is taking jobs from U.S. citizens but because their foreign clients were turned down for H-1B visas!
Washington DC: More proof U.S. jobs are going to immigrants; during a Congressional hearing it was revealed that at least 5-million migrants violated their H-1B visas and now refuse to leave the United States! This means they’re now illegal immigrants but the federal government isn’t doing anything about it, a grand total of 10-thousand visa violation cases were investigated out of the now 5-million violators known to be in the U.S.! Despite the latest revelations, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a new Visa Waiver Program which allows immigrants to enter the United States without getting visas from U.S. consular officers!
I found a 2010 AFL-CIO analysis (titled The Public Availability of WARN Notices: Lack of Accessibility and Disclosure…) which proves what I’ve been suspecting in my search of state WARN notices; most states are not complying with federal WARN regulations and are not publicizing or tracking mass layoffs.
Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed!
Employees of religious non-profits might not qualify for unemployment assistance: “If the non-profit organization is a church, you may or may not be entitled to unemployment. It all depends upon state regulations for church employers. In many cases, churches are allowed to set their own rules regarding unemployment benefits, meaning the church can choose whether to offer benefits to former employees.”
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.”
News media in Denmark reporting that at least 49 migrants/immigrants/refugee/asylum seekers, who’ve had their requests to enter the European country, are the latest to have disappeared.
CPH Post says a review of paperwork at the Kærshovedgård deportation center, in central Jutland, showed that of the 84 men refused entry only 35 are accounted for.
Two scenarios: The other 49 returned home, or they’ve disappeared somewhere in Europe.
Richard Østerlund la Cour, an immigration administrator, said it is typical that when people are rejected asylum they simply “disappear”!
A pro-immigrant group known as Refugees Welcome admitted that as many as 50-thousand migrants have disappeared from Denmark, over the past ten years!
Incomplete list of U.S. job loss announcements and shutdowns.
California: In Citrus Heights, after 44 years Northridge Music Center shutting down by the end of the month, the frustrated owner literally blames “everything”.
Connecticut: Packaging maker Norampac New England shutting down their Thompson operations, 63 jobs gone between July and August.
Georgia: In Atlanta, after 46 years recording studio Doppler Studios shutting down, no reason given.
Indiana: CTS Electric Components shutting down their Elkhart factory and moving production to Mexico and China. 230 U.S. jobs gone by mid-2018!
Iowa: Todd’s Naturalizer shutting down their Valley West Mall shoe store mid-month, the owner said it wasn’t worth it to renew the lease.
Massachusetts: The Granby School Committee will layoff at least 12 teachers, along with a number of other employees: “State Aid to Granby is projected to decrease for the coming fiscal year by $60,667. In three of the last nine years, Granby has received more State Aid than it will in FY 2017. State Aid pays for about 32.7% of Granby’s operating budgets. State Aid for Schools, including School Choice funds, is projected to decrease by $107,088. At $5,290,801, State Aid for Schools represents over 84% of Granby’s total State Aid.”
Michigan: In Clare, after 23 years New Wood Store furniture store shutting down, they’ve already sold the property.
Minnesota: In Saint Cloud, thrift clothing store Threads shutting down after eight years, so the owner can focus on her new store.
New Jersey: God powerless to stop ‘his’Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth from shutting down their Florham Park Saint Anne Villa retirement home, 135 jobs gone by August! More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t directly blame the internet/high-tech competition for your demise; VALID USA laying off 144 South Plainfield data center employees by July!
New York: In NYC, telecommunications company Charter Communications eliminating at least 36 jobs due to their merger with Time Warner!
North Carolina: In Wilmington, after five years Arrow Fine Art supplies shutting down, the owner Linda Arrow yearning “I want a life, and I want to create my own art.”
Tennessee: After 42 years god powerless to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ Bible distributor Send the Light Distribution. Administrators blame it on competition with Amazon!
Texas: In El Paso, after surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions Regis-Bernard Furniture shutting down due to the owner wanting to retire. Hercules Offshore now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.
Virginia: After 60 years The Clock Shop shutting down their Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall store by July.
Washington: In Colville, after 11 years Lovitt Restaurant shutting down due to sales not being enough to support the owner’s growing family. The restaurant has been for sale for the past year, the owner’s are hoping to move to a larger city in the hopes they could have better sales.
Washington DC: It’s been revealed that a taxpayer funded scholarship program known as DACA funds college education for ILLEGAL immigrants! Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton proudly and openly supports it! DACA is in addition to any other financial aid: “I was able to get scholarships and grants through DACA.”-Clara Kim, Korean student at elitist Azusa Pacific University in California who admitted to Hillary Clinton that she was in the U.S. illegally, Hillary Clinton then ‘applauded’ Kim’s efforts, it was caught on video by CBSLos Angeles
And while illegal immigrants are given taxpayer funded education, the number of U.S. citizens who can’t repay their student loans is now at 43% according to the U.S. Department of Education.
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification.
I found a 2010 AFL-CIO analysis (titled The Public Availability of WARN Notices: Lack of Accessibility and Disclosure…) which proves what I’ve been suspecting in my search of state WARN notices; most states are not complying with federal WARN regulations and are not publicizing or tracking mass layoffs.
Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed!
Employees of religious non-profits might not qualify for unemployment assistance: “If the non-profit organization is a church, you may or may not be entitled to unemployment. It all depends upon state regulations for church employers. In many cases, churches are allowed to set their own rules regarding unemployment benefits, meaning the church can choose whether to offer benefits to former employees.”
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.”
25 December 2013 (15:52 UTC-07 Tango)/21 Safar 1435/04 Dey 1392/23 Jia-Zi (11th month) 4711
“The case of Anastacio Hernandez Rojas is emblematic of a disease that runs to the cold heart of the Obama administration’s immigration policy. The administration’s silence before the killing of innocents is enabling the Border Patrol to continue to kill and abuse with utter impunity. This is an agency that refuses to be accountable to anyone.”-Roberto Lovato, co-founder of Presente
The U.S. backed Drug War in Mexico is getting a lot of people killed, and they’re not even Mexicans! As I’ve written before, most of the people killed in the so called Drug War, are people from Central American countries!
But of course Mexicans are being killed. The latest case involves five Mexican teenagers who were ran over by a pickup truck as they left a Christmas party in Reynosa, Tamaulipas. Officials say it was intentional, and that the occupants of the truck were “gunmen”, although no gun shots were reported.
The Institute for Women in Migration reports that their research confirms that 47-thousand migrant workers have been killed in the so called Drug War in Mexico, since the Bush Jr regime started it.
Mexican newspapers are reporting that between 10-thousand and 70-thousand migrants from Central American countries have gone missing inside Mexico! Even the UN suggests that U.S. backed Mexican officials are intentionally looking the other way when it comes to Central American migrants trying to reach the U.S.
The Swiss based Academy of International Humanitarian Law says they’ve confirmed that in 2012 nine thousand people were killed in Mexico, as a result of the Drug War, putting Mexico in second place after Syria. More people were killed in Mexico than in Afghanistan.
The Swiss study also pointed out that many more unsolved and unreported killings in Mexico could be directly attributed to the Drug War, which means Mexico could actually beat out Syria for the most people killed in 2012!
Oh, and for all those ‘mericans that’re sick of those dern Mexicans stealing the very jobs that most ‘mericans wouldn’t take, the study by the Institute for Women in Migration shows that migrant workers going to the U.S. has crashed. In 2007 Latin American migrants heading to the United States, through Mexico, peaked at a record 682-thousand+. By the end of 2012 the number of migrants heading to the U.S. hit a record low of 181-thousand! (that’s a drop of just over half a million migrant workers, for those of you who can’t do the math)
It’s a sign that the U.S. instigated Drug War in Mexico is really targeting migrants, and it’s also a sign of how bad the U.S. economy really is. So shove that up your red neck Estados Unidos Christian asses!
“We all wish we didn’t have to build such a facility. But we’re in a certain situation due to certain circumstances, and we need a facility to address these needs.”-unnamed Israeli Defense official
According to an article in The Independent, Israel is about to build the World’s largest “detention center”, designed to hold 8,000 Black African “migrants”!
“[it was time]…to stop this growing influx that threatens Israelis’ jobs and changes the character of the state.”-Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel
Most of the migrants are actually fleeing the wars in Sudan and Eritrea. Israel has a policy of not returning refugees fleeing wars, so now they’ve decided to put them all in prison!
“People fleeing for their lives… will not stop coming because they face three years in detention.”-Reut Michaeli, Hotline for Migrant Workers
I wounder how many U.S. tax dollars are going to be used to build this World’s largest immigrant detention center?
According to international law a refugee is a person who’s been forced to leave their home, due to war or other violence in their home country. They are supposed to be given certain protections under international law.
The Europeans, along with the United States, were so keen on escalating the violence in North Africa (Libya), yet they don’t want to deal with the flood of refugees that are a natural result of war! Instead the Europeans are calling the people fleeing the war, “migrants”. In this way the Europeans don’t have the same legal requirements as they would if they called them refugees.
In fact, the Europeans are scrambling to figure out how to get rid of these refugee/migrants. The Europeans are even going so far as to dismantle one of the corner stones of the European Union, free travel across borders. The EU is now considering adopting a law that would allow them to close their borders.
How hypocritical is this? The “Western world” launches a war against North African countries, in the name of supporting freedom and democracy, and then they refuse to help any of the people fleeing the violence!
For those people out their who think the military action of U.S. led NATO is still about “protecting civilians”, please explain why refugees, ooops, I mean migrants are being treated like sh*t by the Europeans.
