Nielsen TDLinx reports that since 2004 more than 10-thousand bars/pubs have shutdown across the United States!
Flagship Food Group’s Meridian, Idaho, HQ. They’re about to kill 123 jobs in California!
California: Once Los Angeles based but now Idaho based Flagship Food Group issued a shutdown WARN for their Chatsworth food factory, 123 jobs lost before the U.S. Thanksgiving! To show you that corporate America sees no recovery in the near future, in Los Angeles Packaging Advance issued a shutdown WARN for May 2016, 192 jobs lost! Menzies Aviation continues to eliminate jobs, this time 51 jobs lost before Xmas. San Diego Sports shutting down right after Thanksgiving, 123 jobs lost! In Emeryville, MobiTV laying off 57 people right after Thanksgiving. China owned solar power company SunEdision issued layoff WARNs for 62 Californians beginning right after Thanksgiving. Fireman’s Fund Insurance issued a layoff WARN for their Novato office, 73 jobs lost before Xmas. Khol’s department store shutting down their huge store in Santa Clara, 119 jobs lost by the end of January 2016! In Palo Alto, British empire Canada owned U.S. tax-sucker Space Systems Loral (SSL) laid off 90 people without warning, notifying state employment administrators five days after the fact.
Georgia: Suddenly restaurant Rosebud shutdown “effective immediately” because of “unforeseen circumstances”.
A busy USPS Pocatello Gateway loading dock, yet we Mail Handlers were told we were let go “Due to lack of work”! (that’s what it says on my written layoff notice)
Idaho: Six months after I lost my job at the Pocatello Gateway Postal Processing Center, due to plant shutdown, the ‘elected’ officials of Pocatello and Chubbuck are pushing the USPS to re-open the center. I posted many articles in the last few weeks of my USPS Mail Handling job (and afterwards, I even tracked a package to see how long it now takes for mail to come into east Idaho) primarily because I was shocked at how many east Idahoans were unaware there was a mail processing center here. Now the mail gets processed out of state in Utah. The local johnny come lately public administrators want public input regarding the efforts to re-open the Gateway processing center on Flandro Drive in Pocatello (go to www.oldtownpocatello.com).
Idaho Power’s gas fired Langley Gulch Power Plant, built in 2011, now to be run by Germany’s Siemens.
Major electricity supplier Idaho Power has signed a 20 year deal to contract out maintenance work on its gas fired plants to Germany based Siemens. But get this, Idaho Power refuses to say how much the contract is worth, and, is selling $21.9-million USD of equipment to Siemens as part of the deal, sounds like Idaho Power is hurting for cash.
Target HQ in Minnesota, job killing has become their forte!
Minnesota: More proof corporations don’t see any future recovery as Minneapolis based retailer Target announced it will kill-off 3-thousand 1-hundred jobs (layoff 1,700 people and eliminate 1,400 vacant jobs) over the next two years!
Oklahoma: Oil industry company Continental Resources announced it is cutting pay for employees under the guise of trying to prevent mass layoffs.
Pennsylvania: Philadelphia based FMC announced it will eliminate 850 jobs blaming currency wars! God refuses to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ Saint Joseph the Worker Church due to lack of money, proving that the real god is money! After three years non-profit ‘tech incubator’ Seed Philly being forced to shutdown due to the new property owner terminating the lease early.
Failed State Tennessee: In Nashville, Khan’s Desserts shutting down because “…the rent has gone up greatly, and without partnership or investment, we are unable to move to another location.”
Texas: In Tyler, busy bug killer Center Chemical shutting down by the end of the month. The owners say they want more time with their grandchildren. Round Rock based Dell just made the biggest tech takeover deal ever ($67-billion USD). Now the administrators of Dell/EMC hinted at mass layoffs: “Of course when we do this we want to make sure we do this in a way that’s very attractive to the EMC shareholders and a fair deal…”-Joe Tucci, EMC ceo
11 October 2015: Entire school district shuts down!
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.”