Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
California: More proof tech isn’t recession resistant, NetApp announced it will kill-off 5-hundred jobs, blaming crashing revenues! Now add to that the announcement by Palo Alto based Hewlett Packard (HP) that they must eliminate far more than their amended plan of 55-thousand jobs, by October!!! They’ve already eliminated 51-thousand 9-hundred jobs since 2012! Administrators say even more jobs will be eliminated after October, when HP will be split into two companies! News reports say the surprise shutdown of Ohio based government paper supplier Sekuworks (see Ohio below) has resulted in no issuing of official documents, like birth certificates, in The Golden State! It’s estimated that the drought will kill-off $2.75-billion USD in 2015 revenues for the huge California ag industry! Thousands of agriculture jobs lost! In Petaluma, after eight years the Come Home to Cooking School forced to shutdown by A-hole city administrators who refuse to renew the license to operate!
Colorado: Evil oil industry service company Haliburton eliminating “dozens” of jobs in Grand Junction. One employee is pissed saying “…nine years and they can’t even tell me face-to-face what’s going on!” His wife lamented “They’re getting rid of family men and I’m scared! I am about ready to have a baby and I don’t know what we are going to do about insurance!”
Connecticut: Too Big to Jail British empire owned RBS Securities announced it will layoff 50 people in Stamford. Local news reports say RBS Securities has eliminated 550 Stamford jobs since 2013! University of Connecticut is laying off employees, reports say about 50.
Delaware: Chemours, a chemical company founded in July 2015, is already killing off 330 jobs in Edge Moor (also spelled Edgemoor)! They’re shutting down the old DuPont titanium dioxide factory. One employee told local news media that his coworkers are scrambling to figure out what they’re going to do.
Idaho: The city council of Chubbuck has put the kibosh on the dynastic mayor’s desire to give himself a 45% pay raise! However, the council did agree to give the mayor, and themselves, a pay raise in 2017. I hope it’s because they know the local economic situation is going to be much improved by then.
Kentucky: Tennessee based paper company Verso Corporation announced they will eliminate 310 jobs as they shutdown their Wickliffe paper mill! It’s blamed on crashing paper sales and a strong USD.
Louisiana: California based oil company Chevron has begun laying off an undisclosed number of employees at its Covington office. It could be in the hundreds.
Maine: Tennessee based paper company Verso Corporation announced they will eliminate 3-hundred jobs at their Androscoggin paper mill! The layoffs will leave 5-hundred employees at the mill, compare that to 1987 when the Androscoggin Mill employed 1-thousand 4-hundred people!
Massachusetts: In Lowell, after 125 years (surviving the Great deflationary Depression and numerous recessions) wholesaler A.H. Notini & Sons shutdown. It was sold-off to a competitor in Maine.
Michigan: Flint School District eliminated an additional 26 jobs, blaming a 10% drop in enrollment. Bagger Dave’s restaurants shutdown in Grandville and Holland, no warning or explanation given. In Kimball, M&R Surplus shutting down in time for Thanksgiving, after 44 years of selling military gear. After surviving the Great (deflationary) Depression Sunnybrook Golf & Bowling shutting down. The land is rumored to have been sold-off.
Mississippi: The city of Jackson has warned that in order to meet their new budget without raising taxes they must layoff employees, impose a hiring freeze and cut pay for all city employees including the mayor and city council.
Nevada: ObamaCare is the final nail in the coffin for Nye Regional Medical Center in Tonopah. The hospital went bankrupt in 2013 and never recovered, even with taxpayer assistance. News reports say there is only one doctor in town and the nearest hospital is more than an hours drive away.
New York: Barcomb’s Furniture shutting down their Champlain store. The owner admitted that sales have been declining since the 1990s. Major news media outlet Thomson Reuters joining the mass exodus by issuing a shutdown WARN for their Valhalla Tax & Accounting Customer Service and Financial Operations, 37 jobs lost between now and March 2016. Unnamed sources say major news outlet Bloomberg is about to eliminate 1-hundred NYC jobs! It’s blamed on the return of elitist Michael Rubens Bloomberg. The U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement has canceled their contract with The New York Foundling-Casa de Paz migrant children housing program. 33 jobs lost by September.
Ohio: Harrison based commercial paper-printer Sekuworks has gone bust, shutting down without warning. Not only are hundreds of jobs lost, but several U.S. states are now struggling to find a new supplier for official state documents, as Sekuworks was apparently the only one who could perform Intaglio printing!
Pennsylvania: British empire U.S. tax-sucker BAE Systems shutting down their Jessup military factory by Xmas, the remaining 111 jobs lost! Administrators say they’ve completed the contract they had with the U.S. Department of Defense.
Rhode Island: The city of Providence suddenly shutdown all five public swimming pools, with no explanation. Rumors say the incompetent city administrators tried to save money by painting the pools with cheap paint that could pose a health hazard when chlorinated water comes into contact with it.
Texas: Houston based department store owner Stage Stores announced they will shutdown 90 stores across 40 U.S. states. Those stores include Bealls, Goody’s, Palais Royal, Peebles and Stage. Administrators blame “economic softness”. To show you that administrators don’t see any future recovery, the shutdowns will take place over the next few years.
Utah: State Charter School Board ordering the shutdown of Alianza Academy K-8 charter schools in West Valley City and South Salt Lake City. It’s blamed on what I call DSS (Disappearing Students Syndrome), as enrollment has crashed below the state required minimum of 290.
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.”