Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
British empire’s United Kingdom based Too Big to Jail Barclays will eliminate 30-thousand jobs around the World, including in the United States, by the end of 2017! Administrators are suddenly calling those positions “redundant”, but the real reason for the massive layoffs is an attempt to double the stock price of the failing bank.
Colorado: Software company Intuit now shutting down their Denver call center, 59 jobs lost. It’s part of last month’s announcement that the California based company will eliminate 399 jobs!
Delaware: The now bankrupt A&P grocery chain will shutdown two Delaware stores.
Florida: Vizen sushi restaurant shutdown. Critics said it was good but too expensive. Moore’s Stonecrab shutdown, reports say a new restaurant will open, a year and a half from now!
Indiana: In Fort Wayne, after 39 years Abby Brown’s Candy Shoppe shutting down in August, due to the death of one of the co-owners.
Iowa: In Spencer, hydraulic pump make Eaton laid off 49 employees, the rest of the factory’s employees will be furloughed for a week in September. Administrators blame the bad economy.
Massachusetts: In Somerville, after 46 years Johnny D’s Uptown Restaurant and Music Club shutting down by 2016. The owner wants to ‘repurpose’ the property as a mixed retail-residential building .
Michigan: In Escabana, after 30 years the Record Rack shutdown due to the co-owners’ retirement.
New Jersey: Montvale based Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (A&P) now chapter 11 bankrupt busted (again) and will shutdown at least 25 stores and sell-off at least 120. The Montvale HQ building was put up for sale back in January. At least ten New Jersey A&P grocery stores will shutdown.
New York: It’s been revealed that NYC based Time received $10-million USD in taxpayer funded grants and incentives to prevent the publisher from moving to New Jersey. But according to a WNTC report, the taxpayer funded bribe allows Time to eliminate 9-hundred jobs! NYC based radio broadcaster Westwood One laid off 50 people across several states as part of consolidation with Cumulus Media. The now bankrupt A&P grocery chain will shutdown five New York stores.
Pennsylvania: The now bankrupt A&P grocery chain will shutdown eight Pennsylvania stores. A local TV station interviewed people about what they thought, many said they thought the A&P grocery prices were too high. In Berwyn, the Pathmark grocery store is shutting down. In Kennett Square, the Super Fresh grocery store is shutting down.
South Carolina: In Charleston, after eight years Social Restaurant & Wine Bar being replaced by a restaurant targeting old fogy tourists: “The dynamic of this neighborhood has changed drastically. We’ve lost our late night. We’ve lost the younger crowd that helped keep the lights on. East Bay now has an older demographic that’s more touristy.”-Brad Ball, owner
South Dakota: Rip off discounter Big Lots shutting down their five years old Sioux Falls store in August, 17 jobs lost.
Texas: In Houston, Ohio based TimkenSteel laying off 39 employees due to “significant downturn in business” with the petroleum industry. The Ohio company laid off 52 people outside of Texas, back in March, for the same reason.
Washington: In Seattle, “provider of travel and hospitality services” Bags will eliminate 190 jobs in August!
18 July 2015: “…they’re messing with people’s lives!”
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.”