Incomplete list of U.S. Mining/Industrial/Logistics job loss/shutdown announcements made in September 2018.
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
ALASKA: Alyeska Pipeline Service Company warned “Many jobs will be modified, and some eliminated, at Alyeska and in some contractor companies.”
ARIZONA: SCA tissue factory in Bellemont closing, 120 jobs lost
ARKANSAS: Iconic Acme Brick Company shutting down a factory in Fort Smith, blaming the company’s restructuring on “ever changing demands of the market”.
CALIFORNIA: Disney laying off an undisclosed number of Consumer Products workers, blaming it on a ‘partial’ merger with 21st Century Fox and a crash in revenues of 8%. Silgan Containers issued yet another WARN, this time 49 jobs in Sacramento gone before Thanksgiving. In Berkeley, after 84 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Pacific Steel Casting factory suddenly put up for auction, having never recovered from the 2008 ‘recession’. Extreme Logistics Solutions issued a shutdown WARN for its Victorville operations, 56 jobs gone right after Xmas. Peninsula Packaging issued a shutdown WARN for its Hollister ops, 156 jobs gone before Thanksgiving! Construction company Brinderson issued a layoff WARN for ops in Martinez, 98 jobs gone before Thanksgiving. Golden State Overnight Delivery Service issued yet another WARN, this time 67 jobs in Santa Clarita gone by October. Florida based door maker Masonite issued a shutdown WARN for its factory in Stockton, 131 jobs gone in March 2019! Florida based manufacturer Jabil issued shutdown WARNs for two California factories, 435 jobs gone before Thanksgiving!
Tesla ‘Delivery Logistics Hell’
COLORADO: Oil company Balusa Holdings now chapter 7 bankrupt busted and liquidating, claiming it made no revenues in 2018.
FLORIDA: Essentra Packaging shutting down ops in Largo, 81 jobs gone. Illinois based Atkore International also shutting down ops in Largo, 101 jobs gone!
GEORGIA: Voith Paper Fabrics eliminating 53 jobs.
INDIANA: Michigan based Federal-Mogul Motorparts shutting down a distribution center in Indianapolis, 83 jobs gone by Spring 2019. Cardinal Metal suddenly laid off 79 people in Kokomo, due to the sudden loss of a “key customer”. LGSTX Distribution Services suddenly shutdown its Indianapolis location, 256 jobs gone due to the loss of its contract with United States Postal Service! Quality Packaging Specialists issued a shutdown WARN for its Mooresville location, 85 jobs gone right after Xmas.
KENTUCKY: Berry shutting down its films, laminates, and adhesives factory in Augusta, 330 jobs gone probably in connection with Berry taking over a competitor earlier this year, or possibly due to reduced orders by Proctor & Gamble, or both!
MINNESOTA: Metal maker SSAB Minnesota laid off ten people.
MISSISSIPPI: Ethanol maker Ergon shutting down its factory in Vicksburg, about 30 jobs gone by Xmas due to crashing profit margins.
NEW YORK: Shoe Maker P.W. Minor eliminating at least 45 jobs in Batavia, saying it’s the only way to keep the shoe factory open (P.W. Minor also issued a WARN of potential shutdown affecting 82 jobs). Once U.S. based beauty products company Avon shutting down its factory in Rye, 105 jobs gone by May 2019! Bigname Commerce issued a shutdown WARN for its stationary factory in Amityville, 41 jobs gone before Xmas due to consolidation. State Department of Environmental Conservation ordered Sand Land Corporation to halt mining ops in Noyack.
NORTH CAROLINA: Product Quest suddenly shutdown its beauty care factories in Kannapolis and Concord, and went chapter 11 bankrupt busted, 296 jobs gone! Germany owned Daimler Trucks-Thomas Built Buses suddenly laid off 115 people, blaming it on “the cyclical nature of our business”!
OHIO: PTC Alliance could see 94 layoffs in November
Taxpayer funded Wright Patterson Air Force Base held a Life Cycle Industry Days presentation as part of “Government and Industry better focusing our collective energies ‘out-innovating’ our opponents”, including a focus on video games and U.S. military sales to other countries. 
Also, on 11-12 September taxpayer funded Defense Logistics Agency held a free class at the Defense Supply Center Columbus, to teach almost 50 civilian business how to sell to the taxpayer raping government. 
Also, the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime revealed that it spent more than 120-million tax dollars on small businesses in Ohio, just in the first three quarters of fiscal year 2018!
OREGON: Whew, what’s that smell? Schmidt’s Deodorant shutting down its factory in Portland, 52 U.S. jobs gone as a result of being taken over by British empire United Kingdom based Unilever.
PENNSYLVANIA: ArcelorMittal Plate issued a layoff WARN, 17 jobs in Conshohocken gone before Xmas. Uniform maker for the ‘public safety’ sector Elbeco issued a shutdown WARN for its Frackville factory, 71 jobs gone before Xmas. CEVA Logistics issued a shutdown WARN for its Bedford location, 92 jobs gone before Thanksgiving. Taxpayer funded DLA (Defense Logistics Agency) Troop Support Clothing and Textiles held a National Industries for the Blind’s annual Textile Apparel Group conference on 06 September in Philadelphia.
TENNESSEE: Fred’s Pharmacy shutting down its distribution center in Memphis, 80 jobs gone.
VIRGINIA: 
The taxpayer funded Defense Logistics Agency staged 115 trailers at Fort A.P. Hill in preparations for Hurricane Florence. The DLA also staged emergency equipment in North Carolina and Alabama.
WISCONSIN: ACCO shutting down its paper clip factory in Pleasant Prairie, 54 remaining jobs gone due to consolidation ops (in May 150 people were laid off without warning). Can maker Silgan Containers issued a layoff WARN, 30 jobs in Plover gone before Thanksgiving.
U.S. INDUSTRIAL/MINING/LOGISTICS SHUTDOWNS, August 2018: “A 45-PERCENT DECLINE”
More taxpayer funded hi-tech video games for the military as the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) hosted a NATO technology demo at the Keweenaw Research Center (KRC) to showcase mobility prediction software, called Next-Generation NATO Reference Mobility Model (NG-NRMM) Development. It’s for predicting problems with logistical ground transportation of military supplies: “We’ve digitized every pebble in the proving ground here into a database and they can have that database. So, they can drive that vehicle through the terrain in the computer and try to predict the mobility, as we call it, of that vehicle going through that rough terrain.”-Jay Meldrum, KRC
“This new software is amazing! The speed is mind-blowing! The parking heading colors are cool. The auto-execute feature is a game changer.”-First Sergeant Alex Joy, 3rd Battalion, 27th Field Artillery Regiment (3-27 FAR) Fort Bragg, about the new M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) Software System Suite Version 8.0
