And now it begins.
Anyone with a functioning brain could have seen this coming. And indeed, it is happening. The end result of a looming Obama second term
is an assault on the private sector. Companies
are anticipating the worse, and are laying workers off. The Blaze.com published a small sample:
• Exide
Technologies -
Exide Technologies announced Thursday that it will be idling its
lead-recycling operations in Laureldale and laying off 150 workers, effective
no later than March 31.
• Westinghouse -
Westinghouse Anniston, the contractor responsible for shutting down
Anniston’s chemical weapons incinerator, has reduced its workforce by another
50 employees.
• Research in Motion Limited -
Research in Motion Ltd., the maker of BlackBerry smartphones, laid off about
200 people at its U.S. headquarters in Irving on Wednesday, according to a
source close to the company who did not want to be named.
More than one dozen employees at a
Pikeville company lost their jobs this week. Officials with Lightyear Network
Solutions said they are consolidating offices in Louisville and Pikeville to
save money.
The Providence Journal Co. laid off
23 full-time workers Wednesday as part of a cost-cutting effort, including 16
members of the Providence Newspaper Guild and 7 non-union employees.
The company says 240 employees will
lose their jobs with the closing of Hawker Beechcraft Services facilities in
Little Rock, Ark.; Mesa, Ariz.; and San Antonio, Texas.
Boeing Co. said Wednesday it plans
to employ 30% fewer executives at its Boeing Defense, Space & Security unit
by the end of 2012 compared to 2010 levels.
CVPH Medical Center has handed pink
slips to 17 employees. The layoffs — nine in management and eight hourly
staffers — are part of an effort to “help bolster the hospital’s financial
position in 2013 and beyond,” a press release said.
The move will result in 980 job cuts
at U.S. Cellular, with 640 in the Chicago area, according to a spokeswoman. The
cuts are slightly under 12 percent of the approximately 8,400 total employees
U.S. Cellular had at the end of the third quarter.
About 150 workers at Sistersville’s
Momentive Performance Materials plant will be temporarily laid off later this
month, officials said this week.
About 100 employees at Pratt &
Whitney Rocketdyne, most of whom work in the San Fernando Valley, were laid off
Wednesday in response to dwindling government spending on space exploration,
the company said. The layoffs were effective immediately, and 75 percent of
them came at the facilities on Canoga and De Soto avenues, which employ about
1,100 people. The company has six sites across the Valley.
The leader of an automotive parts
plant in Lincoln County has told state officials that there are plans to lay
off 75 workers starting in late December…The layoffs are expected to start Dec.
28 and continue in the first quarter of 2013
Vestas Wind Systems A/S (VWS) is
seeking to sell a stake of as much as 20 percent and said it’s reducing
headcount by 3,000 to raise the staff cuts by the biggest wind turbine maker to
almost a third over two years.
Husqvarna AB (HUSQB), the world’s
biggest maker of powered garden tools, plans to cut about 600 jobs in a move
that will save 220 million kronor ($33 million) a year by 2014.
The Center for Hospice and
Palliative Care plans to temporarily lay off as many as 40 employees next year
as it embarks on a major renovation of the inpatient unit at its Cheektowaga
campus.
Bristol-Myers Squibb is following up
its lackluster third-quarter results with almost 480 layoffs. As Pharmalot reports,
the company notified the New Jersey government that it would scale back in
Plainsboro, which means the cuts will hit its sales operations.
Trumbull printer- and
scanning-equipment provider Oce North America, Inc. will lay off 135 workers in
three Connecticut communities, including East Hartford, according to its notice
with the state Labor Department.
The company, which was among those
who had received an Obamacare waiver in the past, is looking to
limit workers to 28 hours per week. A full time employee that is required to
have health insurance (lest the employer pay a fine) works 30 hours per week,
as defined by the Obamacare law.
In its statement, UtahAmerican
Energy blames the Obama administration for instituting policies that will close
down “204 American coal-fired power plants by 2014″ and for drastically
reducing the market for coal.
United Blood Services Gulf South
region, the non-profit blood service provider for much of south Louisiana and
Mississippi, will lay off approximately 10 percent of its workforce. It was a
hard decision to make according to Susan Begnaud, Regional Center Director for
the Gulf South region.
As of Friday 165 new regulations have been implemented. In the last 90 days 6,125 have been
posted. The promised war on industry and
energy continues, and there is nothing we can do about it. All I have to say is you teat squawkers got
what you wanted. Soon, we will all be
living Obama’s campaign slogan:
Forward! That’s right, forward to
the unemployment line.
My problem with the senator goes back to 1993, when he had the balls to tell grown men they couldn’t participate in a consensual sport called Ultimate Fighting. I remember asking myself, who in the hell does this guy think he is? And ever since that moment, my antipathy has grown to monumental proportions.