Incomplete list of U.S. Mining/Industrial/Logistics job loss/shutdown announcements made in November 2018.
WARN=Worker Adjustment Retraining Notification
ARKANSAS: Union Pacific railroad continues adding to its layoff lists
CALIFORNIA: British empire owned maker of police-state equipment for military/law enforcement Safariland issued a mass layoff WARN for its Ontario factory, 158 jobs gone by the end of the year! Driessen Aircraft Interiors Systems issued a shutdown WARN for its factory in Huntington, 60 jobs gone by the end of the year. E2 Consulting Engineers issued a mass layoff WARN, 162 jobs gone by the end of the year! International Paper Company issued a shutdown WARN for its San Leandro location, 36 jobs gone the week before xmas. APL Logistics Limited issued a shutdown WARN for its Fontana ops, 96 jobs gone in January 2019. British empire Canada based North American Services issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Simi Valley, 26 jobs gone in January 2019. DI Overnight issued mass layoff WARNs, at least 3-hundred jobs gone across ten locations, by March 2019! CEVA Logistics issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in San Jose, 197 jobs gone! Custom furnace maker Retech Systems issued a layoff WARN for its Ukiah factory, 30 jobs gone in January 2019. Rockwell Collins issued a shutdown WARN for its office in Irvine. Pacific Southwest Containers issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Chatsworth. Boeing laying off ten people in Huntington, in January 2019.
CONNECTICUT: Harvey Supply Chain International issued a shutdown WARN, 97 jobs in Woodstock gone mid-January 2019. Crabtree & Evelyn issues shutdown WARN for its body lotions/fragrances manufacturing/distribution ops in Woodstock, at least 30 jobs gone after January 2019. (Harvey Supply Chain and Crabtree are related companies)
Champion Builders now chapter 11 bankrupt busted
Calpine shutting down North American Power office
FLORIDA: C&S Wholesale eliminating 205 jobs in Orlando, between the end of January 2019 and mid-March 2019! Service America Enterprises eliminating 161 construction related jobs in January 2019!
General Electric (GE) kills 147 Jacksonville jobs!
GEORGIA: Georgia-Pacific closing Warm Springs mill, affecting 321 jobs!
HAWAII: Hawaii’s largest commercial printer shutting down after more than 26 years, 93 jobs lost
ILLINOIS: ADC Diecasting & Manufacturing issued a shutdown WARN, 101 jobs gone by the end of January 2019! Callen Manufacturing issued a shutdown WARN, 126 jobs gone by February 2019! ZF Chassis Systems Chicago issued a shutdown WARN, 261 jobs gone by June 2019! Caterpillar issued a shutdown WARN for its factory in Joliet, 285 jobs gone by June 2019!
INDIANA: Without warning Textron shutdown its lawnmower factory Dixie Chopper, 107 jobs gone instantly!
IOWA: Germany based Siemens shutting down its Burlington factory, 125 jobs lost four days before xmas
KENTUCKY: Industrial bag maker Mondi closing Louisville facility, laying off 100 workers!
LOUISIANA: Oil company PetroQuest Energy filed for bankruptcy protection from $204.5 million in debt
MICHIGAN: General Motors (GM) to lay off 14-thousand-7-hundred employees!!!
Alphi Manufacturing eliminating 106 jobs in Jonesville due to “sudden and unexpected” loss of contract!
MINNESOTA: Quam Construction suddenly laid off 40 people in Willmar.
Bankrupt Peoples Electric shutdown without warning, 130 contractors suddenly jobless!
NEW YORK: Dumas Contracting revealed it eliminated 33 jobs at the end of October.
Greek based oil company Aegean Marine Petroleum filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in NYC
Sunlite Plastics to cut 58 jobs after unexpected crash in orders
LED Lighting Manufacturer LSI shutting down New Windsor factory, 136 Layoffs!
NORTH CAROLINA: Germany based BASF to lay off 53 workers at two Charlotte locations
Layoffs possible as Duke Energy expands buyout offers
PENNSYLVANIA: NFI Interactive Logistics issued a shutdown WARN for its Sunbury location, 55 jobs gone by the end of January 2019. HVAC maker Danfoss issued a layoff WARN, 48 jobs gone by March 2019. ‘Premium’ bicycle marketer Advanced Sports Enterprises issued a layoff WARN, 60 jobs gone in January 2019. Bartash Printing suddenly shutdown, 163 jobs already gone according to the WARN!
Faucet maker Moen shutting down 50 years old factory, at least 50 jobs gone in 2019
Cloth maker Woolrich shutting down its mill by the end of the year (40 jobs gone according to the WARN)
TEXAS: Despite being promised an economic incentive from local officials, insulation maker CertainTeed halting production in Sherman, 35 jobs gone by December.
WISCONSIN: Beechworth Windows issued a shutdown WARN, 80 jobs gone by January 2019.
General Electric (GE) Global Operations is laying off 63 people
WYOMING: Dozens of oil industry layoffs despite increase in production, no explanation given
U.S. MINING/INDUSTRIAL/LOGISTICS LAYOFFS, OCTOBER 2018:“WE KIND OF NEED TO DO SOMETHING BESIDES DIE AT OUR DESK”
The Washington Air National Guard’s 262nd Cyberspace Operations Squadron was tasked with providing cyber security for the state’s electronic voting system during the November elections.
Temporary housing for U.S. Army soldiers arriving at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base for border patrol ops, 02NOV2018.
Lieutenant General Jeffrey Buchanan, of United States Army Northern Command, inspects the border wall near Nogales, 29NOV2018.
Border fence reinforcement ops at Border Field State Park in Imperial Beach, 15NOV2018.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin K. McAleenan meets with Governor of Baja California Fransciso Vega de Lamadrid and Mexican Federal Police Deputy Commissioner Ricardo Aguilar prior to a tour of border operations at the San Ysidro Port of Entry.
U.S. Marines reinforce the border wall at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry, 16NOV2018.
Arrest of illegal immigrants in McAllen, 15NOV2018.
U.S. Army personnel install concertina wire on the Anzalduas International Bridge, 05NOV2018.
U.S. Border Patrol agents conduct a Del Rio Sector Mobile Field Force Combined Exercise, 16NOV2018.
On 08NOV2018, the retired battleship USS Wisconsin was used to grant citizenship to 29 military personnel who were born in Philippines, Jamaica, Ghana, Nigeria, China, Vietnam, Congo, Kenya, Federated States of Micronesia, Togo and Burkina Faso. According to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and the City of Norfolk and Nauticus, it was a record number of military personnel granted citizenship in one day.
The U.S. Army Security Assistance Command (USASAC) completed the sale of more than $338 million worth of UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters to the African country of Tunisia.
U.S. military took part in the Great Tohoku Earthquake remembrance, 11MAR2019.
Local emergency responders practice casualty evacuation during Pacific Partnership-19, 16MAR2019.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District conducted an earthquake continuity of operations training by simulating an emergency move of their Los Angeles HQ to Pheonix, Arizona. Think about that, the Army Corps of Engineers is prepping for a southern California quake so big that they’ll have to move their HQ out of California! According to the military report, preps for such a scenario began in 2018, as part of a Presidential Directive, Public Law and Corps regulations.
04MAR2019, fast transport ship USNS Brunswick (T-EPF 6) departs Naval Base Guam for Pacific Partnership 2019, the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific.
U.S. military/USAID Humanitarian Assistance Response Training conducted 06MAR2019, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.
On 09MAR2019, more than 120 state militia personnel (National Guard) took part in FEMA Region 9 mass-casualty training: “Det. 1 Hawaii is poised in the middle of the pacific, where we train to respond quickly with a team made up of professional responders. Some of our Airmen are already in the local fire department, police and EMS departments. It makes it easy to just sync right in. So there’s a credibility that we worry less about catching up to the civilian standards, because we come trained, equipped and interoperable with our civilian response partners. We have a small, close knit community in Hawaii, but at the same time, it’s also like we’re one big, extended family always find ways to provide kokua.”-Lieutenant Colonel James Faumuina, 154th Medical Group’s Detachment 1
Idaho Air National Guard, along with local responders, trained for mountain disaster/rescue ops 08MAR2019.
From 07-13MAR2019, the Idaho Army National Guard conducted Idaho Response-19 at Orchard Combat Training Center (aka Orchard Training Area). More than 350 Guard personnel from Idaho, Washington, Montana and Utah took part. Apparently the chemical weapons suits were part of an earthquake simulation in which the earthquake caused an argon gas leak.
Washington National Guard’s 10th Homeland Response Force took part in Idaho Response-19, despite the ‘bad’ weather: “It’s actually good training…because the weather will almost certainly not be ideal if we were called to a real world disaster.”-Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Bugbee
U.S. Coast Guard delivers 18.5 tons of cocaine to Port Everglades, 15NOV2018. The illegal drug was captured off the U.S. Pacific coast.
On 01NOV2018, non-profit AmeriCares set up ‘Clinic in a Can’ operations in conjunction with FEMA and Florida Department of Health. This is a fine example of how bad things are in the U.S. because AmeriCares was originally established to help people in poverty stricken countries.
Mandatory flu vaccines for U.S. Army personnel at Fort Stewart.
U.S. personnel of the USNS Comfort provide ‘free’ (U.S. taxpayer funded) medical care to Colombians, 17NOV2018.
U.S. Southern Command’s Medical Element Preventative Medicine operation tested the drinking water in Comayagua and Siguatepeque, 07NOV2018. It’s part of the U.S. military’s taxpayer funded foreign community outreach ops.
USN Captain Kevin Buckley, from the U.S. hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20), presents donated medical supplies to the Peruvian Ministry of Health at one of two medical sites, 05NOV2018. Personnel aboard USNS Comfort also provided ‘free’ (U.S. taxpayer funded) medical care to Peruvians.
U.S. Army and Air Force personnel inspect the Rwanda Military Hospital, 30NOV2018.
U.S. Army personnel help plant a new Partners in Education sign in front of Hardaway High School in Columbus.
Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Tyler Richins poses for a photo with his father, Dwight Richins, after coaching Sugar-Salem High School to the Idaho 3A state football championship.
On the ‘associated U.S. state’ of Marshall Islands the U.S. Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 1 carried out taxpayer funded repairs to local schools, 07NOV2018.
On U.S. Marine Corps’ Camp Lejeune, a fire burned through the roof of Lejeune High School, 01NOV2018.
On the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands, a sixth grader at Hopwood Junior High School inspects the damage caused by Super Typhoon Yutu, 15NOV2018.
U.S. Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 1 ‘SeaBees’ connect a FEMA-owned (taxpayer owned) emergency power generator to the Tinian Elementary School, 05NOV2018.
U.S. Coast Guard personnel rebuild an elementary school in Guatemala (one of the Central American countries flooding the U.S. with migrants), 19NOV2018.
U.S. Navy SeaBees spend U.S. tax dollars building a new high school for the Federated States of Micronesia, 17NOV2018.