Incomplete list of publicly announced layoffs & shutdowns:
Colorado: Troubled ECMC Group shutting down their Zenith Education Group student loan call center in Thornton, 137 jobs lost right before Xmas! Local news reports say that at one time the call center had more than 3-hundred employees.
Connecticut: More proof unAmerican corporate America does not see economic recovery! Disney has ordered its Bristol based sports channel ESPN to eliminate $350-million USD worth of jobs (about 200 to 300 jobs) over the next two years!
Delaware: The state Department of Labor says unemployment went up in August due to normal summertime layoffs.
Florida: In Jacksonville, CACI Integrated Security Solutions issued a WARN saying 51 employees will be laid off right before Thanksgiving.
Illinois: In Alton, after only three years Santa Cruz Imports and Exports shutting down in November. The owner said he’s too busy with his rental properties and construction company.
Kansas: In Emporia, after 24 years the Town Crier Bookstore shutting down in October. The owners are reported to have said “We need to move on, too.”
Massachusetts: The Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) trend of consolidation/mergers in the healthcare industry is shutting down two nursing homes that’ve survived the Great (deflationary) Depression and numerous recessions; the 150 years old Merrimack River Valley House and the 87 years old Horn Home.
New York: The 126 years old (surviving the Great deflationary Depression and numerous recessions) bankrupt busted New York Military Academy shutdown after a planned sale fell through. It’s blamed on DSS, in 2014 enrollment fell to less than 1-hundred. Donald Trump was a student at the privately funded school but actually refused to bail out his alma mater on the grounds it was a losing business proposition! Daikin Applied issued a 9th round layoff WARN for their Auburn HVAC facility, to take place in December. Daikin is shutting down by April 2016, eliminating a total of 310 jobs! Drugs maker Pfizer issued a WARN for yet another round of layoffs at its Rouses Point ops, they expect to be shutdown by December. In East Hampton, Waldbaum’s grocery store shutting down. Turn’s out Waldbaum’s was owned by now bankrupt and dying Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company. The new owner, Stop & Shop Supermarket, decided it wasn’t worth it to keep the Waldbaum’s open.
North Carolina: Charlotte based Too Big to Jail Bank of America warned of another round of mass layoffs, this time ‘only’ 1-thousand people will become jobless! The jobs are connected to fixed income, currencies and commodities ops. After 21 years the Tremont Music Hall shutting down after Xmas. Local news reports blame greedy property developers.
North Dakota: Local news sources discovered that oilfield service company Halliburton had eliminated jobs at its Williston office. When cornered Halliburton administrators would only confirm the layoffs but refused to give numbers.
Pennsylvania: More proof unAmerican corporate America sees no recovery soon! Redner’s Warehouse Market grocery store shutting down in Trexlertown, 74 jobs lost. After 25 years of sales the administrators said renewing the lease was not “beneficial nor profitable in the foreseeable future.”
Texas: Houston based Marathon Oil announced 40 more layoffs, on top of the 4-hundred they already laid off. Administrators also said they won’t be drilling any new exploratory wells in 2016.
Virginia: Evil British empire U.S. tax-sucking military contractor BAE eliminating 650 jobs in Norfolk! Administrators blame a reduction in work for the USN. Bristol based mining company Alpha Natural Resources announced 96 more layoffs at three mines in Dickenson County.
Wisconsin: In Port Washington, after 79 years on-going construction projects forced iconic Harry’s restaurant to shutdown. The building the restaurant is located in will be replaced with condominiums.
19 – 20 September 2015: more and more citizens think we’re about to go to hell in hand basket!
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.”