Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
Alpha Natural Resources announced at least 62 people laid off at their coal mine ops in Kentucky and West Virginia.
Arkansas: Little Rock based Windstream Communications announced another 350 layoffs, on top of the 400 layoffs earlier this year! The company is undergoing radical change due to the suck-ass economy, including trying to become an evil REIT (real estate investment trust).
California: In Walnut Creek, Valley Waste Management issued a WARN saying 66 employees will be laid off in February 2015. Boeing issued more WARNs saying another 181 employees across southern California will be laid off by January 2015! In Van Nuys, Keaster Products issued a WARN saying they will shutdown at the end of December. San Francisco based video game maker Double Fine laid off at least 12 employees, and cancelled work on its latest video game. In Sacramento, the Golden State senate immediately laid off 39 of its own upper house employees. Another 50 employees will be laid off through attrition. Also, state employees will see at least a $30 per month increase in their health insurance payments, no thanks to Obama Care!
Connecticut: In Torrington, after more than 60 years the owner of children’s items store Reibman’s said she might shutdown in December. The owner of the store also owns the building, and is jumping on the property development train. She’s been trying to sell the building with no luck, so maybe she can rent it out?
Georgia: God refuses to stop Saint Francis Hospital from laying off 65 healthcare workers, suddenly. Administrators implied that reduced funding caused by Obama Care forced them to re-examine their ‘books’, during which they discovered they were $30-million USD short! Administrators admitted to employees that they “overestimated” expected payments.
Idaho: The mayor of American Falls reported that the local ALCO store was shutting down, he was alerted when he saw employees putting up the going out of business signs. It’s one of five Idaho ALCO stores being shutdown (see Texas below). The American Falls mayor says his small city can’t afford more job losses: “Any worker who loses their income will have an impact on the city!”-Marc Beitia
Illinois: In Geneva, after 18 years women’s clothing store Sandra Webster shutdown.
Kentucky: In Louisville, after 33 years Gavi’s Restaurant shutdown.
Michigan: In Owosso, Planned Parenthood shutting down in December due to crashing federal funding.
Minnesota: God refuses to stop ‘his’ 60 years old Christian Book and Gift Store in Rochester from shutting down right after Xmas!
Ohio: In Mansfield, after 47 years Grantie’s Grinders (sub style sandwiches) shutdown, 11 jobs lost. The owners blame competition from a ‘big box’ sandwich shop that recently moved into the neighborhood.
Pennsylvania: Only four years after Swedish vehicle maker Volvo set up shop in Shippensburg, Volvo administrators revealed they will shutdown specific heavy construction vehicle production, not only in the U.S. but in Poland and Brazil, killing off at least 1-thousand jobs into 2015! Mercyhurst University laid off 14 administrators and demoted six full time employees to part time. Other employees are taking pay cuts, it’s blamed on crashing enrollment. In Muhlenburg, God refuses to stop’his’ Salvation Army Thrift Store from shutting down. Administrators with the Queen of England controlled Salvation Army says the store has been losing money for years.
Tennessee: In West Knoxville Sonny’s BBQ shutdown.
Texas: After 113 years (surviving the Great deflationary Depression and numerous recessions) Coppell based ALCO (formerly known as Duckwall-ALCO) announced they will shutdown all 198 stores across the United States!
Vermont: Vermont Technical College warned of layoffs due partly to the loss of 160 students over the past three years.
Washington: Too Big to Jail Union Bank announced they will shutdown 20 offices by March 2015. Those offices once belonged to Frontier Bank (which failed).
West Virginia: Patriot Coal announced another 130 coal mining jobs lost!
20 november 2014: armed guards used to layoff employees!
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.