Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
Alaska: Mexico is getting out, shutting down their consulate in Anchorage by the end of November. It’s blamed on lack of Mexicans in Alaska who need consular services.
Arizona: University of Arizona eliminating 320 jobs, blaming massive state taxpayer funding cuts! Bankrupt busted Washington based Haggen Foods announced it will shutdown all its Grand Canyon State grocery stores that it was tricked into buying from Albertsons-Safeway! Shutdown list
California: Bankrupt busted Washington based Haggen Foods announced it will shutdown all its Golden State grocery stores that it was tricked into buying from Albertsons-Safeway! shutdown list Affordable Care Act killing off Santa Barbara based plastic surgery supplier Mentor Worldwide as it issued a layoff WARN, 81 jobs lost before Thanksgiving. Also in Santa Barbara, MCC BB Property issued a layoff WARN, 23 people jobless before Thanksgiving. Evil debt collector EOS CCA issued a WARN saying it will shutdown its Novato office and layoff 45 people right before Thanksgiving. Like other corporations they are consolidating their operations. Western Digital issued a mass layoff WARN saying 143 people in Irvine will become jobless right before Thanksgiving! In Santa Ana, student loan processor Zenith Education Group laying off 18 people by the beginning of November. Bankrupt busted surf clothier Quicksilver laid off 77 people in Huntington Beach. In Cupertino, Seagate laying off more employees, this time 62 right before Thanksgiving. In San Jose, Cisco Systems laid off 20 people. In San Ramon, AT&T issued a mass layoff WARN saying 219 people will lose their jobs by the end of the month! Japan based GREE International finally revealed they laid off 114 people in San Francisco, back in July! Santa Clara based Marvell Tech announced it will eliminate 17% of its global jobs, and immediately investors drove the price of the company’s stock skyward! In Long Beach, home for troubled kids Bayfront being shutdown by state regulators for numerous “violations”. In San Luis Obispo, after ten years Monterey Street Wine quietly shutdown. In Willits, the Wowser rental production space (“Maker Space”) shutdown due to lack of understanding of its purpose. Berkeley based Peet’s Coffee announced they are shutting down three shops in Illinois and four in Wisconsin, 1-hundred jobs lost: “After nearly a one-year assessment of our Illinois and Wisconsin stores, we’ve decided to focus on our top-performing locations. As a result, we are closing three stores in Illinois and four stores in Wisconsin on September 27.”
Connecticut: After 26 years the Party Bazaar in Clinton shutting down by the end of the month.
Florida: Too Big to Jail finance and insurance company Ceridian issued a WARN saying 101 people in Saint Petersburg will lose their jobs between November and April 2016!
Georgia: Once an icon of U.S. capitalism around the world, Atlanta based Coca-Cola announced it will sell-off nine U.S. bottling factories in an attempt to generate $380-million USD in much needed cash! Those nine factories account for 95% of Coke’s production volume in the United States! Administrators are also trying to consolidate operations to create a more efficient National Product Supply System in an attempt to drive down operating costs. Essentially, they don’t think the economy is going to improve anytime soon. Reports say Atlanta based electronic payment company BitPay conducting mass layoffs as part of radical restructuring of its Free Plan.
Idaho: Once again this year, in order to generate more funding for public schools the state Department of Lands is auctioning-off Priest Lake vacation lots, nine this time. It was revealed that the main reason the auctions aren’t going so well is because many of the properties are actually ocupado: “I know that people are hesitant to bid against a person that built it and currently occupies the structure and still wants it.”-Sid Anderson, Dept. of Lands
The Right to Work (you over) lawsuit happy gov’na Butch Otter is screwing Gem State taxpayers over again by suing the federal government over their new sage grouse rules! And the drought is so bad in Idaho that taxpayers are being forced by the Idaho Water Resource Board to fund $200-thousand USD worth of cloud seeding ops.
Illinois: In Meredosia, vinyl acetate company Celanese shutting down right before Xmas, at least 46 jobs lost. The owner of Bud’s Skyline Inn revealed the Quad City International Airport bought his property and could be shutting down the hotel in a “few weeks”. In Elgin, after almost 50 years the Gasthaus Bar & Grill shutdown due to crashing sales after A-hole christian extremist city administrators amended their liquor license.
Louisiana: Non-profit Louisiana Health Cooperative has been bullied by state and federal Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) regulators to shutdown “voluntarily”! You should realize that ObamaCare was written by the for-profit insurance industry, and they don’t like competition!
Massachusetts: It’s been revealed that law firm Locke Lord Edwards ‘lost’ or laid off 23 employees since April.
Minnesota: US Steel announced another round of layoffs at its Keetac factory. Many of the 412 employees to be laid off by October!
Nebraska: Omaha based food giant ConAgra warned of mass layoffs as part of its plan to shift food production from Nebraska to Illinois. Outdoor adventure supply store Cabela’s announced it will eliminate up to 1-hundred jobs from corporate ops in Sidney, Denver and Lincoln! Residents of Sidney told local news that they are pissed because they gave Cabela’s a lot of tax breaks to bring jobs into the area. In Lincoln, clothing store Schweser’s shutting down after Xmas: “We have seen a drop in sales in some of our stores over the past few years that has been difficult to overcome. Our expenses continue to rise, including the cost of goods, and our sales have not kept pace in some locations.”-Tyler Smith
New York: At LaGuardia Airport, Command Security Corporation lost its contract with United Airlines, 108 jobs lost before Xmas! State and federal Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) regulators shutdown non-profit Health Republic Insurance. News reports say it’s the fourth non-profit insurance co-op in the United States shutdown by ObamaCare regulators!
North Carolina: The Biscoe Food Lion grocery store just gave its employees a 12 days notice of shutdown!
Ohio: Clintonville Community Market Co-Op shutting down due to radical changes in the ‘natural food’ segment of the grocery store industry: “This changing marketplace has created a decline in sales for our co-op that has intensified over the last two years, and the trend continues. We cannot remain solvent in this situation. The ethical and responsible act is to close the store.”
Pennsylvania: PBS member WQED laid off at least 17 people and is drastically cutting pay for everybody else. Administrators of the donation funded TV service said they’re trying to eliminate $5-million in debt over the next 15 years!
Virginia: In Virginia Beach, family owned hotel and restaurant The Belvedere shutdown. Supposedly the family is building a new bigger hotel.
Washington: Bankrupt busted Bellingham based Haggen Foods announced it will shutdown at least 127 of the 146 grocery stores (shutdown list) that it was tricked into buying by Albertsons-Safeway, more than 5-thousand jobs will be lost across several west coast states!
24 September 2015: Caterpillar to kill additional 10,000 jobs!
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed
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.”