Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
Stop blaming the internet: Japan based Sony is ending its Online U.S. shop in August!
Alabama: Food Outlet shutting down their 27 years old Jacksonville grocery store. Administrators say new competition has “split our customer base in half”, combining that with increasing costs of operations it just wasn’t worth while to continue.
Arizona: Illinois based Cochise Regional Hospital shutdown without warning because ObamaCare cut off all Medicare funding! The shutdown was revealed by Copper Queen Community Hospital administrators who said they were being flooded with patient transfers from Cochise.
California: After 100 years (surviving the Great deflationary Depression and numerous recessions) gourmet grocer A.G. Ferrari Foods shutting down its Castro location. Since bankruptcy in 2011 the gourmet grocery chain has dwindled from 13 stores to five.
Florida: In the Miami metro area the Oolite restaurant shutdown without warning, despite being voted best on South Beach. Gastropod restaurant shutdown. Food critics were surprised when Pubbelly Boys’ L’Echon Brasserie shutdown. The L’Entrecote de Paris shutdown as well. In Fort Lauderdale, Taps Restaurant, Bar and Lounge and Bimini Boatyard Bar & Grill both shutdown. In Latana, Pizzeria Oceano shutdown.
Georgia: ObamaCare forced non-profit Southern Regional Medical Center to declare chapter 11 bankruptcy. Reports say the hospital will be sold to a California non-profit. Despite ObamaCare claiming to provide every U.S. citizen with medical insurance, Southern Regional administrators say 30% of their customers are still uninsured, and the hospital is owed at least $21-million USD for services rendered in 2014!
Illinois: Too Big to Jail Mesirow Financial shutting down their bankruptcy consulting ops. They tried to sell it but nobody wanted to buy, so 50 people will become unemployed and probably, ironically, have to file for bankruptcy (if unAmerican corporate America can do it so easily, why not individuals?). Taffies Restaurant shutdown: “We just need to find a new location. This restaurant has been here for 35 years. It’s a leased building. We’ve put more money into it than we’re making.”-Angela Van Matre
Massachusetts: After 56 years The Beachcomer shutdown and was sold-off. The new owner says it will be torn down, and maybe a new ‘high-end’ restaurant will be built. Cupcake Town shutting down in Mansfield.
Michigan: The Saint Joseph Mercy Port Huron hospital is for sale. Supposedly California’s Prime Healthcare Services wants to buy it.
New Jersey: In Parsippany, cereal maker Post Foods issued a WARN saying 48 people will become jobless by the end of September.
New York: That Which Cannot Be Named refuses to stop ObamaCare from forcing Menorah Home & Hospital from issuing a shutdown WARN for their Adult Day Health Center in Brooklyn, 47 jobs lost by October. News sources report that God has joined the mass exodus from The Big Apple: “Dozens of NYC churches closed this week: Could they be reborn for another purpose?”
“Sad to report that after 2.5 great years on 2nd Ave, we’ve decided to close Alder at the end of August. The search for a new home begins…”-Wylie Dufresne, celebrity chef
After 16 years Mixed Greens art gallery shutting down by the end of 2015.
Pennsylvania: Lehigh County taxpayer funded Cedarbrook nursing homes eliminating as many as 45 jobs. Shippensburg and Cheyney universities have warned their unionized employees of mass layoffs.
Texas: National Oilwell Varco issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Willis, 150 jobs lost! Bankrupt busted Cal Dive International issued layoff WARN saying they will eliminate 126 jobs starting at the end of the month! 45 years old Stanley’s BBQ shutdown. Two years ago it was sold to a family that tried to keep it alive but failed, blaming crashing sales.
Wisconsin: Ramen noodle joint Tochi shutdown in Shorewood due to problems with the new lease. The owner is hoping for a new location.
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.”