Incomplete list of U.S. Mining/Industrial/Logistics job loss announcements and shutdowns for November 2016.
Germany based VolksWagen (VW) upped their planned global layoffs to 30-thousand, including jobs in the United States! News media keeps blaming it on VW’s diesel scandal, but it’s really part of VW’s shift to all electric and self-driving car production (as part of the Rockefeller conspiracy).
Arkansas: ArcBest warned 130 employees they will become unemployed due to a 32% crash in revenues!
California: United Parcel Service (UPS) issued a shutdown WARN for its Oakland operations, 470 jobs lost by mid-January 2017 (supposedly temporarily)! Legacy Supply Chain Services shutting down their Fontana ops, 220 jobs lost days before Xmas! Illinois based product “deployment company” Schawk issued a layoff WARN for their Cupertino ops, 85 jobs lost right after Xmas. What housing/building industry recovery? BlueScope Buildings shutting down their Turlock location, 51 jobs lost by March 2017. What automotive industry recovery? Japan based Hino Motors shutting down their Ontario location, 135 jobs gone by the end of January 2017! Vehicle tester Kett Engineering issued a layoff WARN for their California City location, 62 jobs gone by the end of January 2017. Car parts maker Adient finally revealed they shutdown their Fremont location, 40 jobs lost back in October. Tax-sucker Lockheed Martin shutting down their San Diego rotary systems operations, 95 jobs gone by May 2017. Boeing issued more layoff WARNs, 82 jobs gone by mid-January 2017.
Illinois: Chicago based tax-sucking Boeing announced it will conduct further defense-government related job cuts as it consolidates operations across the U.S., at least 5-hundred additional jobs could be lost (on top of those already eliminated). Shippers Warehouse shutting down their Bolingbrook ops, 111 jobs lost by the end of January 2017! G&G Contract Logistics issued a shutdown WARN for their Morton location, 67 jobs gone by the end of March 2017, due to loss of contract. Ryder shutting down their Minooka local, 142 jobs gone by February 2017! ‘Organic’ chemical maker Merisant issued a shutdown WARN for their Manteno operations, 77 jobs lost right before Xmas. What housing/building industry recovery? Environmental controls for residential and commercial buildings company Austin-Westran issued a shutdown WARN for their Byron ops, 79 jobs lost by mid-December. What automotive industry recovery? Engine parts maker Android Belvidere II issued a shutdown WARN, 273 jobs lost two days before Xmas! Metal fabricator Eberspaecher issued a shutdown WARN for their Belvidere ops, 38 jobs lost days before Xmas, due to “financial” reasons. Alabama Metal Industries shutting down by February 2017, at least 86 jobs lost.
Indiana: British empire owned (British Petroleum) BP Whiting Refinery eliminating 80 salaried jobs, warning that more layoffs are being planned as “The announcement today does not include the represented hourly and salaried workforce.” What automotive industry recovery? In Lafayette, TRW Automotive laying off at least 65 people by mid-January 2017, and shutting down their operations on Dale Drive. Local news media said TRW did not make a reason for the shutdown public.
Kansas: Textron Aviation warned of more layoffs (but gave no numbers) as part of their plans “to streamline our business through workforce reductions to improve our overall operating efficiency”.
Louisiana: ExpressJet shutting down its maintenance ops in Shreveport, 250 jobs lost to Tennessee! It should be noted that in February of this year ExpressJet promised to expand their Shreveport ops and hire 71 more people!
Massachusetts: Canton based shoe maker Reebok moving to Boston, affecting 7-hundred jobs in Canton!
Michigan: What automotive industry recovery? General Motors (GM) slashing production of Cadillacs at its Lansing factory, eliminating 839 jobs by mid-January 2017!
Minnesota: Lakeville Motor Express, in Roseville, suddenly shutdown leaving 95 people without jobs or final paychecks. Officially, administrators blamed “heavy financial losses”, however, union bosses called bull-shit on that as “The freight is still there. The trucks are still there. And the customers are still there. All they did was change the logo on the trucks”. Local news media implied the admin of Lakeville Motor Express changed the name to Finish Line Express, and moved to a new location in order to ‘bust’ the unionized workers! Larson Boat Group moving their factory to Wisconsin, 114 Little Falls workers outta work starting in April 2017!
Montana: The city of Stevensville was shocked when the largest employer, steel fabricator Selway, conducted mass layoffs without warning, even the Selway managers were caught off-guard: “Everybody was affected! It happened so quickly. I don’t have the numbers at this point.”-Randy Osgood, Selway ops manager
New Jersey: In Robbinsville, Kenco Logistics Services eliminating 466 jobs by the end of January 2017!
New Mexico: Colorado based Intrepid Potash warned that 57 Carlsbad miners will be laid off after Xmas, due to “We created more inventory than we were able to sell.”
New York: NYC based oil company Hess announced it was killing-off 11% of its jobs, investors loved the news and drove Hess stock prices up by 17%. In Maspeth, sample card maker Dickard Widder Industries issued a shutdown WARN, 94 jobs gone by February 2017. MGS Manufacturing Group shutting down their Buffalo injection molding ops, 62 jobs gone by mid-February 2017. Perfume maker Symrise shutting down their factory in Chester, 36 jobs being moved to New Jersey in February 2017. Nat-gas company Chart Industries shutting down its Amherst ops, 150 jobs being moved to Georgia!
North Carolina: Kaba Ilco Corporation issued a shutdown WARN for their Winston-Salem factory, 123 jobs gone by the beginning of 2018! Kaba is moving production to Mexico.
Ohio: What automotive industry recovery? Lordstown Seating Systems conducting layoffs due to General Motors (GM) ending their third shift at their Lordstown factory. 115 Lordstown Seating System jobs gone by January 2017! GM laying off 1-thousand 245 people, also by January 2017! GM blames their third shift shutdown on not enough ‘Mericans buying the Chevy Cruze. Walton Hills based car parts maker Transtar now chapter 11 bankrupt busted. Administrators told the court they needed $74-million USD in additional loans to keep operating. (wouldn’t that be nice if individuals who file for bankruptcy could ask for more money? Ain’t unAmerican corporate America wondersful?)
Oklahoma: SandRidge Energy warned of more layoffs, but gave no details. Shopping cart maker Unarco Industries suddenly began laying off an undisclosed number of employees in Wagoner. Unnamed employees believe production is being moved to Virginia and China. What automotive industry recovery? Navistar laid off 75 workers at it bus factory in Tulsa.
Oregon: California based logistics company UTi eliminating 96 Portland jobs due to being sold to a rival based in Denmark.
Pennsylvania: Clothing industry distributor Alphabroder-Broder Bros. eliminating 35 jobs in Philadelphia by mid-January 2017. CEVA Logistics eliminating 173 jobs in Lewisberry by the end of March 2017! In Hanover, Air Products and Chemicals continues to kill jobs due to crashing sales, this time the remaining 130 workers have been warned of plant shutdown!
South Carolina: Boeing contractor Impresa Aerospace shutting down its Goose Creek ops, 20 jobs lost. Company administrators blame it on Boeing demanding that they cut costs.
Tennessee: Battery maker Duracell shutting down their Cleveland factory, 140 jobs lost by 2018!
Texas: Offshore oil rig operator Gulf Marine Fabricators eliminating 251 jobs at its Aransas Pass facility! Oil field housing company PMC Services now chapter 7 bankrupt busted. Chapter 7 usually means they’re dead. Boeing shutting down its factory in El Paso, 3-hundred jobs gone as part of its 2020 consolidation plan! What automotive industry recovery? Terex owned Genie shutting down industrial vehicle re-conditioning ops in Waco, 56 jobs consolidated to Oklahoma.
Washington: What housing/building industry recovery? Texas based Garco Building Systems suddenly shutdown its Airway Heights factory, 112 jobs lost without warning (less than 50 people now employed until inventory is sold-off)! Administrators and union reps blame crashing demand for steel buildings in the Pacific Northwest: “We don’t have a lot of orders coming in, haven’t for quite a few years from some of our major customers.”-George Moore, Boilermakers Union Local 242
Wisconsin: The new owner of Brillion Iron Works is shutting it down, suddenly laying off 340 people! Metaldyne Performance Group is moving Brillion Iron Works’ production out-of-state. What housing/building industry recovery? Florida based Masonite Corporation shutting down their hardwood factory in Algoma, 180 jobs gone sometime next year! What automotive industry recovery? Industrial vehicle maker Terex shutting down their Waukesha factory, 92 jobs lost by February 2017.
Mining/Industrial/Logistics October 2016: “AN EXTENDED SLOWDOWN ENVIRONMENT”
SEARS KMART SELF-DESTRUCT DECEMBER 2016: IT’S A CRIME! SEARS STOPS HONORING WARRANTIES!
THE TECH GRINCH CONDUCTS MASSIVE “ORGANIZATIONAL DOWNSIZING”, MERRY XMAS!
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification.
I found a 2010 AFL-CIO analysis (titled The Public Availability of WARN Notices: Lack of Accessibility and Disclosure…) which proves what I’ve been suspecting in my search of state WARN notices; most states are not complying with federal WARN regulations and are not publicizing or tracking mass layoffs.
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.”