Incomplete list of job loss announcements and shutdowns.

Industry analysts Gavin/Solmonese reporting a 379% spike in oil company bankruptcies in 2015, compared to 2014!

California: Massive proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t blame the internet/high tech for your demise: Sunnyvale based Yahoo eliminating 107 HQ jobs by April!  Computer chip company Broadcom eliminating 850 jobs across The Golden State, by March!  In Irvine, software developer Sage revealed they laid off 67 people back in January.  Palo Alto computer tech company VMware issued a layoff WARN for March, 170 jobs lost due to their merger with Dell!  Virginia based technical engineering/military contractor VSE Corporation issued several layoffs WARNs, at least 115 Californians unemployed by the end of March!  Ditech Financial shutting down their Costa Mesa office in March, 87 jobs lost.                         Forever 21 shutting down their Yuba and Hanford clothing stores, 107 jobs lost by April!  Interestingly Yuba city administrators admitted they heard of the closing a year and a half ago!  In Los Angeles, F&E Aircraft Maintenance issued a layoff WARN, 25 jobs lost by mid-March.  In Petaluma, corporate insurer Allianz Global Risks issued a layoff WARN, 38 jobs lost by the end of March.  Illinois based Boeing issued yet more layoff WARNs, this time 53 jobs lost between March and April.   EXP Pharmaceuticals shutting down their Fremont operations, 111 jobs lost by the end of March!  In San Francisco, Pearson Education revealed they eliminated 34 jobs back in January.  What construction industry recovery?  Eaton’s Cooper Lighting shutting down their Richmond operations in March, 47 jobs lost.  Industrial equipment supplier SPX FLOW issued a shutdown WARN for their Modesto office, taking place at the end of March.

Florida: In Miami Beach, Shore Club Hotel issued a mass layoff WARN, 218 food service workers to be laid off in April! 

Georgia: The city of LaGrange shutdown a second homeless ‘overnight warming’ shelter in as many months, using the excuse they are not safe.

Illinois:  In Belleville, God refuses to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital.  Administrators blame ObamaCare for “increased utilization of outpatient services”.  26 non-nursing jobs eliminated, nurses will supposedly be transferred to smaller healthcare operations.

Chicago based Boeing is about to conduct mass layoffs (again).  This time inside information says “extreme cost cutting” is necessary because “Boeing cannot compete with Airbus right now on prices.”   News reports reveal that since 2012 Boeing has eliminated at least 7-thousand 8-hundred jobs!  This time the mass layoffs will supposedly start with top management.

Massachusetts:  The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) is privatizing departments, affecting 250 jobs!  

Reports that Disney is shutting down its secretive Cambridge research center.  Disney operates three other secret labs rumored to be working on creating true AI (Artificial Intelligence) robots.

Oklahoma: A day after revealing it had sold off its Colorado natural gas operations, WPX Energy announced it was shutting down its OKC office, 60 jobs lost over the next few months.  Another 35 employees are being transferred to other locations.  Rental car company Hertz Global announced it will shutdown its Tulsa service center, 1-hundred employees will be transferred but another 80 will lose their jobs.  On top of that Hertz is out-sourcing its Information Tech jobs, affecting 230 OKC IT employees! 

Pennsylvania: What automotive industry recovery?  Auto parts maker Cardone issued a mass layoff WARN for two factories, 1-thousand 366 jobs gone by the beginning of May!  In Pittsburg, IBEX Global eliminating 153 jobs by mid-March! In Tunkhannock, Southwestern Energy eliminating 119 jobs by the end of March! Pennsylvania University School of Nursing shutting down, 96 jobs lost by the end of March. North Philadelphia Health System shutting down in mid-March, 7-hundred jobs lost!  In Thorndale, SABIC Innovative Plastics shutting down in mid-March, 53 jobs lost.  Sherwood Valve shutting down their Washington operations, 53 jobs lost by April.  Oil company Sunoco eliminating 176 jobs by April!  Food maker Mondelez eliminating 509 jobs in two locations, between March and May!  Macy’s shutting down their West Mifflin store, 101 jobs lost by mid-March!

Rhode Island:  In Cranston, Ted’s Montana Grill shutting down next week.  It’s blamed on the landlord wanting to jack up the rent.

South Dakota: Too Big to Jail Wells Fargo gettin’ the lead out, well they’re getting outta the city of Lead anyway.  They’re shutting down their Lead bank office, forcing residents to travel to nearby Deadwood if they want to continue doing business with evil Wells Fargo.

Tennessee: More proof the real ‘god’ is money; God refuses to stop the shutdown of three of ‘his’ LifeWay Christian Store on Southern Baptist seminary campuses.  It’s blamed on the sale of Southern Baptist Convention property and changing spending habits of Christian students.

Virginia: In Virginia Beach, after 70 years popular Charlie’s Seafood Restaurant shutting down this weekend, local news reports blame the bad economy.

Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin System-Extension eliminating 80 jobs due to a sudden and unexpected budget cut by Right to Work (you over) Scott Walker.  40 of the jobs were already vacant.

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

10 February 2016: The insanity begins

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.”