The Massive List of Post-‘Selection’ Firings and Layoffs

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The victory by Barack Obama on selection night has resulted in a huge wave of firings and layoffs all over America. A large number of businesses seem to have suddenly shifted into panic
mode.  The number of layoff announcements that we have seen in the last
48 hours has been absolutely shocking. ~ Michael Snyder – List

So why is this happening?  Well, the truth is that the federal
government is absolutely suffocating small businesses all over America
with rules, regulations and taxes.

If you have never tried to run a small business, then you have no
idea how oppressive this system actually is for people that are trying
to run small businesses successfully.

It has steadily gotten worse over the years no matter who has been in
the White House and no matter who has controlled Congress.  So we
shouldn’t put 100% of the blame on Obama.

Bush massively expanded government and made things harder on small
business people too.  But what many small business people were looking
for on this election day was just a little bit of help.

Many were desperately holding out hope that Obamacare would be
repealed so that they would not have to get rid of some of their
employees.

Many were hoping to get a little bit of relief from the crippling
regulations and taxes that are absolutely crushing them.  But now that
Barack Obama has been given another four years, they understand that
there is no hope on the horizon and that things are only going to get
worse.

So they are making the hard decisions that they feel are necessary in order to survive in this economic environment.

And I certainly don’t blame them.  You only want to have employees if
you can make a profit on them.  And in this environment it is getting
harder than ever to make a profit on an employee.

You see, the truth is that what you cost your employer goes far beyond your salary or your hourly wage.

I think many of you would be absolutely shocked if you learned how
much it actually costs your employer to employ you.  And now thanks to
Obamacare, that cost is going to go up even more.

Many businesses are not even feasible at all in this economic
environment.  Many small businesses had been holding out hope that
somehow this election might turn things around and make it possible for
them to keep going, but when Obama won it was kind of like the straw
that broke the camel’s back.

You can’t do what the federal government and the state governments
are doing to us and expect to have a thriving economy.  They are choking
the life out of us.

New businesses and small businesses are supposed to be at the heart
of our economic system.  Unfortunately, the environment that has been
created is absolutely killing them.  This is a recipe for disaster.

In a previous article, I noted that the number of jobs created at new businesses in 2010 in the United States was less than half of what it was back in the year 2000.

Now we can expect that number to get even worse and we can expect
large numbers of small businesses to shrink in size or close their doors
completely.

The following is a list of some of the post-election firings and layoffs that we have seen since Tuesday night…

#1 Utah

A Utah coal company owned by a vocal critic of President Barack Obama has laid off 102 miners.

The layoffs at the West Ridge Mine are effective immediately,
according to UtahAmerican Energy Inc., a subsidiary of Murray Energy
Corp.

They were announced in a short statement made public Thursday, two
days
after Obama won re-selection.

The layoffs are necessary because of the president’s “war on
coal,” the statement said. The slogan is one used frequently during the
election by Murray Energy CEO Robert Murray, who was an ardent supporter
of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

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.

#2 Ohio

I work for the oldest and largest health insurer in
the state of Ohio in the underwriting department.

At 9 a.m.this morning,
my department (about 50) were called into a meeting in the executive
boardroom.

We were informed that due to a provision in the healthcare
‘reform’ effective 2014 called guarantee issue, our services would no
longer be needed, and we were offered severance.

So Obama got to keep
his job, and we lost ours. It is maddening that some tyrant 400 miles
away can have such a ruinous effect on peoples lives.

#3 Nevada

A Las Vegas business owner with 114 employees fired
22 workers today, apparently as a direct result of President Obama’s
re-election.

“David” (he asked to remain anonymous for obvious reasons) told
Host Kevin Wall on 100.5 KXNT that “elections have consequences” and
that “at the end of the day, I need to survive.”

Here’s an excerpt from the interview. Click the audio tab below to hear even more from this compelling conversation:

“I’ve done my share of educating my employees. I never tell them
which way to vote. I believe in the free system we have, I believe in
the right to choose who they want to be president, but I did explain as a
business owner that I have always put my employees first. I always made
sure that when I went without a paycheck that [I] made sure they were
paid. And I explained that I always put them first and unfortunately I’m
at a point where I’m being forced to have to worry about me and my
family now and a business that I built from just me to 114 employees.”

#4 Posted below is a list of layoff headlines from the past few days that was posted on AmericanThinker.com

Obama was “fired up” and so were the voters, and so
now, the mass firings begin. Here’s a collection of today’s headlines. 

Please say a prayer for the families who will be suffering. Had Romney
won, many of these companies would now be hiring.

Teco Coal officials announce layoffs

Momentive Inc plans temporary layoffs for 150

Wilkes-Barre officials to announce mandatory layoffs

600 layoffs at Groupon

More layoffs announced at Aniston Weapons Incinerator

Murray Energy confirms 150 layoffs at 3 subsidiaries

130 laid off in Minnesota dairy plant closure

Stanford brake plant to lay off 75

Turbocare, Oce to lay off more than 220 workers

ATI plans to lay off 172 workers in North Richland Hills

SpaceX claims its first victims as Rocketdyne lays off 100

Providence Journal lays off 23 full-time employees

CVPH lays off 17

New Energy lays off 40 employees

102 Utah miners laid off because of ‘war on coal’, company says

US Cellular drops Chicago, cuts 640 jobs

Career Education to cut 900 jobs, close 23 campuses

Vestas to cut 3,000 more jobs

First Energy to cut 400 jobs by 2016

Mine owner blames Obama for layoffs (54 fired last night)

Canceled program costs 115 jobs at Ohio air base

AMD trims Austin workforce – 400 jobs slashed

100 workers lose jobs as Caterpillar closes plant in Minnesota

Exide to lay off 150 workers

TE Connectivity to close Guilford plant, lay off 620

More Layoffs for Major Wind Company (3,000 jobs cut)

Cigna to lay off 1,300 workers worldwide

Ameridose to lay off hundreds of workers

#5 According to the Blaze, the following major corporations have all announced layoffs in just the past two days…

Energizer

Exide Technologies

Westinghouse

Research in Motion Limited

Lightyear Network Solutions

Providence Journal

Hawker Beechcraft

Boeing (30% of their management staff)

CVPH Medical Center

US Cellular

Momentive Performance Materials

Rocketdyne

Brake Parts

Vestas Wind Systems

Husqvarna

Center for Hospice New York

Bristol-Meyers

OCE North America

Darden Restaurants

West Ridge Mine

United Blood Services Gulf

You can get the rest of the details right here.

#6 The following is a list of companies that will be laying off workers just because of Obamacare that was compiled by FreedomWorks

Dana Holding Corp.

As recently as a week ago, a global auto parts manufacturing
company in Ohio known as Dana Holding Corp., warned their employees of
potential layoffs, citing “$24 million over the next six years in
additional U.S. health care expenses”.  

After laying off several white
collar staffers, company insiders
have hinted at more to come.  

The company will have to cover the
additional $24 million cost somehow, which will likely equate to
numerous cuts in their current workforce of 25,500 worldwide.  

Stryker

One of the biggest medical device manufacturers in the world,
Stryker will close their facility in Orchard Park, New York, eliminating
96 jobs in December.  

Worse, they plan on countering the medical device
tax in Obamacare by slashing 5% of their global workforce – an estimated 1,170 positions.

Boston Scientific

In October of 2009, Boston Scientific CEO Ray Elliott, warned that
proposed taxes in the health care reform bill could “lead to
significant job losses” for his company.

Nearly two years later,
Elliott announced that the company would be cutting anywhere between 1,200 and 1,400 jobs, while simultaneously shifting investments and workers overseas – to China.

Medtronic

In March of 2010, medical device maker Medtronic warned that Obamacare taxes could result in a reduction of precisely 1,000 jobs.  

That plan became reality when the company cut 500 positions over the summer, with another 500 set for the end of 2013.  

Others

A short list of other companies facing future layoffs at the hands of Obamacare:

  • Smith & Nephew – 770 layoffs

  • Abbott Labs – 700 layoffs

  • Covidien – 595 layoffs

  • Kinetic Concepts – 427 layoffs

  • St. Jude Medical – 300 layoffs

  • Hill Rom – 200 layoffs

A lot of other businesses are going to reduce the number of employees
they have or reduce the average work week in order to avoid the
Obamacare insurance coverage mandate that will soon be implemented.

This is how CNSNews.com describes the choice that many employers will be facing…

That section, known as the employer mandate, requires
any business with 50 or more full-time employees to provide at least
the minimum level of government-defined health coverage to those
employees.

In other words, a business must provide insurance if it has 50 or more employees working an average of just 30 hours per week, which is 10 hours per week fewer than the traditional 40-hour work week.

Thus, by cutting employees’ hours to ensure they average less
than the 30 per week, employers could potentially avoid the cost of
providing the minimum insurance levels mandated by Obamacare.

So if your company trims the number of workers to just under 50 or
starts going to “29 hour work weeks”, then you will know who to blame.

All of this is complete and utter insanity.  We are committing national economic suicide.

Perhaps we deserve this.  After all, Americans willingly chose
their leaders on election day.  It is getting harder and harder to deny
that our politicians are truly a reflection of who we are as a nation.

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The American people chose this path, and now we get to see where it leads us.

 

Michael Snyder – November 10, 2012 – posted at TheIntelHub

 

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