Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
Connecticut: Norwalk based iconic Xerox warned that more layoffs are in the works, on top of the 13-hundred already taking place! Administrators say demand for high-tech stuff is crashing, after reporting their 10th straight quarter of losses!
Florida: The Island Breeze Casino cruse ship now bankrupt busted, 250 employees laid off! Administrators blame it on an engine fire that cost at least $1-million USD to fix. In Saint Petersburg, British empire United Kingdom based medical products maker Smith & Nephew warned it will shutdown in 2015, eliminating 108 U.S. jobs! Administrators say they must consolidate ops to Texas.
Idaho: In Challis, Colorado based Thompson Creek Mining (aka Thompson Creek Metals) issued a WARN saying they will layoff 160 people and shutdown their molybdenum mine in December. The mining company also warned Canadian employment administrators that they will shutdown their Endako molybdenum mine, also in December. Administrators blame the crashing price of moly-B.
Illinois: In Evanston, after 34 years Next Theater Company shutdown without notice. Reports say subscribers will not get refunds! Administrators blame a “sudden” crash in ticket buying and even donations, and they admitted their money management skills might not have been the best.
Indiana: In Fort Wayne, after 68 years Freeman Jewelers shutdown. The family owners blamed the high cost of precious metals and gems, and high unemployment, for impacting their sales.
Minnesota: God refuses to stop the Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul from killing an undisclosed number jobs. It’s blamed on their craving for sex with children, as they recently paid out a huge (undisclosed) amount of money to settle yet another sex abuse lawsuit! In Minneapolis, printer Cenveo revealed they will shutdown and render jobless 112 people between December 2014 and March 2015!
Nebraska: It was announced that the only Schweser’s women’s clothing store in Ohama will shutdown in January 2015. Company administrators blamed “economic reasons”.
North Carolina: Baxano Surgical now chapter 11 bankrupt busted.
Ohio: In Springboro, a 56 years old IGA (Independent Grocers Alliance) grocery store shutdown. The owner blames competition from ‘big box’ stores: “We’ve got third, fourth generation shoppers. I’ve seen the kids in their baby carriers, to them bringing in their own kids. It’s hard to see what this is, when you watch your inventory dwindle down trying to make excuses to the customers is just, it’s hard to fail.”-Doug Preston
South Carolina: In Conway, after six years the Eggs Up Grill shutdown, 20 jobs lost. The owners said they’re being evicted due to not being able to pay their bills. Co-owner Christine Bonar says “There’s no value to put on what we’re losing financially. It will be the value of the friendships that we’ve made and the staff that we worked with. We’re all breaking up. We’re breaking up our family!” Manager Jeanne Sudowski is worried about the employees: “Obviously losing your job right before Thanksgiving and Christmas time is very rough…..some of them I don’t know if they can collect unemployment because they’ve only been here since July.”
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 shutdown. It doesn’t count people who get a severance for being laid off.