Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
Alabama: Another oil service company down the drain, but not because of prices. Mobile based Signal international is accused of joining the growing list of U.S. companies being caught using slave wage trafficked workers. Signal lost a $20-million USD lawsuit filed by former workers from India, who were trafficked into Mississippi. Now the oil rig maintainer is chapter 11 bankrupt busted. Administrators with Signal claim ignorance because they contracted out the hiring of foreign workers to ‘immigrant specialists’.
Arizona: In Flagstaff, taxpayer funded Coconino County dental clinic shutting down by the end of September. Is crashing patient participation being caused by ObamaCare? County administrators say in the past year about 50% of patients never showed up for their scheduled appointments! The patient turnout is so low now that the only county public health dentist quit!
California: Amy’s Baking Company shutting down. The owners blame the landlord for complaining about “weird odors”.
Connecticut: After 32 years the Red Barn Restaurant shutdown, no explanation.
Georgia: Pediatria Healthcare blames ObamaCare for forcing them to shutdown five of their daycare operations for children with medical problems! Administrators say since 2013 ‘reforms’ to Medicaid resulted in massive funding cuts and affected patient referrals. ObamaCare is forcing the families of the “medically fragile” children to care for them at home, on their own: “DCH is working alongside the provider to transition all children to in-home skilled nursing support services. (DCH) is taking all necessary steps to ensure that the parents and guardians are connected to and able to access the full scope of Medicaid services available to their children.”– Department of Community Health
Illinois: Health insurance giant Blue Cross Blue Shield began laying off 60 employees across the state. Apparently those jobs are being contracted out so the ObamaCare insurance company can make bigger profits for the shareholders. The Alton Animal Control Department shutting down in August. City administrators are trying to cut $80-thousand by contracting out the work.
Iowa: Iowa Student Loan lost their government contract, 60 jobs gone. Administrators would only say that their “…administration of the program did not live up to goals described when the legislation was approved by Congress…”
Kentucky: In Benton, after 40 years the King Brothers grocery store shutdown.
Massachusetts: Gordon College just added seven professors to the previously announced 14 layoffs. It’s blamed on what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome.
Michigan: In Ann Arbor, tech company ForeSee conducted a second round of layoffs, refusing to confirm how many people are now jobless. Local news reports say as many as 37 employees were laid off. Back in January as many as 70 people were laid off. It’s blamed on ForeSee being taken over by Answers Corporation. The Bellaire Village Council announced they “have to prepare for a steady decline” in tax revenues due to the collapsing mine industry. The village also voted to require cash or credit cards for utility payments, no more checks.
New Jersey: Atlantic City has warned all its union employees of massive layoffs this Autumn.
New York: Too Big to Jail KeyBank shutting down their City of Newburgh office by October. After 13 years the Lit Lounge will shutdown by September, one co-owner blames Millennials who “don’t go out”. NYC based Barnes & Noble will shutdown all Nook stores outside of the U.S. and U.K. The book seller will remove their Windows based content and start refunding customers their money. After seven money losing years the Tourism Center in Queens is shutting down, blamed on lack of tourists. In 2012 an employee revealed that the majority of visitors to the Center are residents of Queens!
Ohio: In Toledo, God refuses to stop ‘his’ Good Shepherd Parish from shutting down in August. They lost 65% of their congregation to the Rapture (well, they went somewhere)!
Pennsylvania: Macy’s is shutting down their Pittsburgh store by the end of September. They sold their iconic 128 years old 13 story building to a real estate company. 170 jobs affected!
Texas: In Pasadena, the Sun Products household cleaning products factory shutting down in August because “the chemical manufacturing assets” are being sold-off. 115 jobs lost!
Virginia: The largest employer in Amherst County, Central Virginia Training Center, is shutting down. Layoffs start this October, more than 1-thousand jobs will be lost by 2020! But wait, that’s the tip of the iceberg; four of the five taxpayer funded Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services Training Centers are being shutdown because of what was revealed in a $2-billion 2012 lawsuit brought by the federal government! Some people are afraid their disabled relatives will die without the services of the Training Center, even though the 2012 federal lawsuit accused Virginia of “needlessly warehousing” undesirable (disabled) people instead of providing proper medical care. Here’s a history lesson of why Training Center is evil; NAZI Germany used Virginia’s Training Center as a template for creating one of their ‘final solutions’ for “inferior races”!
Wisconsin: After 65 years the National Ace Hardware on North 4th Street in Milwaukee shutting down. The Right to Work you over gov’na Scott Walker‘s (and his minion’s) plan to create jobs has done the opposite according to American Bridge 21st Century: “At the halfway point of 2015, Wisconsin employers have already notified the Department of Workforce Development (DWD) of more planned layoffs than in all of 2014.
10 – 12 July 2015: “It was a whole lot easier…up to 2006.”
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) no longer issues mass layoff reports: “On March 1, 2013, President Obama ordered into effect the across-the- board spending cuts (commonly referred to as sequestration) required by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as amended. Under the order, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) must cut its current budget by more than $30 million, 5 percent of the current 2013 appropriation, by September 30, 2013. In order to help achieve these savings and protect core programs, the BLS will eliminate two programs, including Mass Layoff Statistics, and all ‘measuring green jobs’ products. This news release is the final publication of monthly mass layoff survey data.”