Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
California: The United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) has revealed that Washington based grocer Haggen has drastically reduced working hours for hundreds of cashiers. It’s part of Haggen’s drastic cuts eliminating 8-hundred California jobs after taking over 83 California Albertsons-Safeway stores. Another Golden State tech company in trouble, Santa Ana based Ingram Micro lost $34.3-million USD in its 2nd quarter, prompting administrators to warn of $100-million worth of mass layoffs! Cetera Financial Group shutting down their J.P. Turner & Company operations, 3-hundred “advisors” affected! Is it the result of $1-million USD in fines by FINRA?
Florida: ObamaCare forcing Southeast Homecare to eliminate 217 jobs by September! Layoffs have already begun. In Lake Park, the only Dunkin’ Donuts with waitresses is shutting down. The 53 years old uniquely rebelious Dunkin’ Donuts restaurant also served burgers-n-hot dogs and other things the other Dunkin’ Donuts joints don’t serve, but corporate communist weenie heads cracked down and are forcing it to turn into a plane ol’ boring Dunkin’ Donuts shop. In Tallahassee, after 30 years Tally’s Grille shutdown without warning, loyal customers lamented “We just came here for regular breakfast and saw the sign on the door. …don’t know what we’re going to do now!”
Idaho: Once again, in the land of Republicans, Idahoans ripped off! Despite taxpayers shelling out $180-thousand on an anti-distracted driving campaign, the Idaho State Police report a 61% spike in deaths by car accident compared to the same time last year (from Memorial Day weekend through July 29)! Gov’na Butch Otter spending big taxpayer dollars on a new Cyber Security Task Force, claiming that “We have seen dozens of cyber attacks that seem to be increasing in frequency and boldness, costing our businesses and taxpayers untold billions of dollars each year.” But that’s at the national level, not state level, you numbskull! The Idaho Falls Regional Airport is spending money on a new website in an attempt to attract more customers. They claim it will show how much money you can save by using a smaller airport. Also in Idaho Falls, the 135 years old (surviving the Great deflationary Depression and numerous recessions) Post Register newspaper is up for sale. The president of the family owned newspaper told employees “…I have nothing more to add to the welfare of the company.” Turns out the newspaper has been for sale for quit some time, but nobody wants to buy it.
Illinois: Deerfield based food conglomerate Mondelez International announced it will eliminate 6-hundred jobs in Chicago, as part of a new round of $130-million USD in ‘investments’ into “…four state-of-the-art manufacturing lines — ‘Lines of the Future’ — at….Salinas, Mexico.” In other words, automated bakeries.
Indiana: Pennsylvania based Too Big to Jail PNC will shutdown the only bank in Monroeville!
Louisiana: After four years satirist Mid-City Theater shutting down.
Maryland: The Baltimore City Detention Center being shutdown, after investigations proved the prison employees were corrupt gangsters (“…guards ran a criminal conspiracy inside vermin-infested, 19th-century walls and thwarted decades of attempted reforms.”-Associated Press). However, the real reason for the prison shutdown is ostensibly to save taxpayers $15-million per year (or protect the ‘lawmakers’ from big lawsuits?): “…taxpayers were unwittingly underwriting a vast criminal enterprise run by gang members and corrupt public servants. Ignoring it was irresponsible and one of the biggest failures in leadership in the history of the state of Maryland.”-Larry Hogan, gov’na
Massachusetts: The Boston Globe revealed it will eliminate more jobs in an effort to attain a “modest profit”.
Michigan: ObamaCare forcing HealthPlus to begin “voluntary separations”. So far 250 people will be let go! Outright layoffs will begin at the end of September, company administrators reportedly have a goal of eliminating 5-hundred jobs! In May the insurance company got out of the Medicaid business by selling off its Medicaid and MIChild operations.
Nebraska: In Lincoln, after almost nine years The Yarn Shop shutdown.
Nevada: Grocer Fresh & Easy shutting down three stores in the Las Vegas metro area, by the end of next week.
New Jersey: Home to 425 race horses, Showplace Farms shutting down in October. Elitist supporters want taxpayers to bail the horse racing industry out!
North Carolina: A National Public Radio report revealed a booming business; new cemeteries for the thousands of veterans allowed to die by the evil hands of the Veterans Affairs; As Cemetery Building Booms, Veterans Hope To Be Buried Close To Home
Pennsylvania: Non-profit Channels Food Rescue shutting down because “it is not a viable, sustainable business model any more”, according to executive director Vicki DiSylvester.
Oklahoma: Colorado based natural gas supplier QEP Resources announced it is shutting down its regional office in Tulsa, 70 jobs lost. QEP joins dozens of other U.S. companies consolidating operations due to the bad economy.
Texas: Despite reporting “better than expected” profits, Houston based oil company ConocoPhillips stated they will continue eliminating jobs. Since 2014 the “World’s largest independent E&P company” has eliminated 1-thousand 5-hundred jobs, but says that because they expect oil prices to crash they want to cut another $1-billion in costs (mainly jobs) over the next two years!
29 July 2015: “…economic conditions dire…”
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.”