Incomplete list of announced closings & layoffs.
What booming oil industry? One of the world’s largest oil drilling companies, the now Swiss based but originally from Texas Weatherford International, announced it will kill 7-thousand jobs around the world in the first half of 2014! The massive company (but still not bigger than Halliburton) blames declining revenues on “disruptions” to oil field work in the Middle East (yeah, disruption caused the ongoing U.S. instigated War on Terror), and bad weather in North America. Oh, but never mind that fact that the company formerly based in Weatherford, Texas, is being fined $250-million USD for violating economic sanctions imposed on Iran and Syria!
Arizona: In Tucson, Nimbus American Bistro & Brewery shutdown. In Marana, Monkey Business restaurant shutdown.
California: Massive healthcare job cuts across the Golden State, as RAS (Radiological Associates of Sacramento) shutdown operations in dozens of cities! RAS is being re-consolidated into Sutter Health in February. Despite news media claiming nobody would lose their jobs, state WARN say differently: I counted 519 layoff WARN notices due to “Closure”! A brand new tech company is already killing hundreds of jobs. Rocket engine company Aerojet Rocketdyne announced it must kill 225 jobs in the Golden State! It’s blamed on debt created when it took over Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne back in June 2013. In Brawley, Leucadia Beef shutdown their factory, 1300 jobs lost! Company officials say the higher prices they have to pay for cows is killing their profit margin. In Long Beach, school bus contractor Atlantic Express laid off 149 people! In West Sacramento, Blue Chip laid off 27 employees. In Los Angeles, at the International airport McDonald’s laid off 68 employees. In San Diego, Optimer Pharmaceuticals laid off three employees. In Chino, Senior Operations laid off nine employees. In Santa Cruz, after 60 years Western Appliance shutting down in March. The manager blamed Costco and lack of competion: “Now TVs, there’s no money in it. Costco makes money on memberships. There used to be 60 to 70 [appliance makers], now there are five. It’s a little monopolistic.”-Dale Burdick
Colorado: Legal drugs pusher, California based Amgen, killing about 200 jobs as it “idles” its anemia drug factory (aka Building 20)! It’s strange because Amgen has been making profits, and demand for its anemia drug is up. The idling of the Colorado factory was planned last year. Is this a false flag op to drive the price of the drug up even more?
Georgia: In Macon, the Georgia Children’s Museum shutdown. The operators blame the continued lack of funding: “We have struggled. We have always struggled. We figured this was probably a good placed to end it……We were not going forward in the way we wanted. We could not line up the funding to offer the services we wanted.”
Iowa: In Sioux City, Premium Pet Health shutdown, 45 jobs lost.
Maryland: MedStar Health killed 131 jobs!
Michigan: In Roseville, Book-A-Million shutdown, the manager admitted sales were way down.
New Mexico: In police state controlled Albuquerque, after 30 years La Esquina restaurant shutdown. The owner, Roy Venaglia, blamed the bad economy saying “I think Downtown is weak. The phone company is gone. PNM is smaller. The gas company, they’re gone. It’s just a weird atmosphere that is getting a little scary!” Of course, who wants to do business in a city where the U.S. Department of Justice proved that the city cops were routinely and intentionally killing people on a massive scale!
New York: Carthage Area Hospital laid off 90 employees, and warned more layoffs are in the works. The hospital also laid off at least 29 employees in 2013. In Irving, TLC Health Network/Lake Shore Health Care Center shutdown, 438 healthcare jobs lost! In Orangeburg, Wenger NA shutdown, 48 jobs lost. In NYC, Barnes & Noble bookstore on 105 fifth avenue shutdown, 56 jobs lost. The massive Pastis Restaurant shutdown, 200 jobs lost! The property owner claims they have to renovate the building.
North Carolina: In Bowling Rock, Broyhill Home Collections store shutdown. The company owner, Furniture Brands, is now chapter 11 bankrupt.
Ohio: In Shiloh, after 85 years metal parts maker Voisard Manufacturing shutdown, more than 100 jobs lost! An unnamed employee said the company was so broke that those employees still owed vacation pay might not get it.
Oregon: Clackamas County laid off 25 employees from three primary health clinics. The county health department is short $10-million USD!
Pennsylvania: Kindred Hospital Easton shutdown, 105 jobs lost! The hospital specialized in long term care, the Obama Care plan actually penalizes hospitals for doing so! In Fort Washington, Ocwen Financial Corporation laid off 243 people!
Vermont: In Wolcott, after 56 years Buck’s Furniture shutdown. The original owner retired in 2013, his daughter took over but she now says the economy is so bad there’s no reason to continue the business. In Stowe, after many decades Lackey’s Variety Store shutdown.
29-30 January 2014: Massive tech & video game industry job cuts!
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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