Westinghouse - 200 Total lie. They are laying off 50 people, not 200, and have been slowly closing their operations down since Sept. 11, 2011. So they announced the company will be closed by 2015 in 2011:
http://annistonstar.com/view/full_story/20755025/article-More-layoffs-announced-at-Anniston-weapons-incinerator?instance=1st_left Research in Motion Ltd - 3,000 These layoffs were announced in June of 2012. Not because of the economy but because they create a product that has lost demand since other competitors have sold more goods:
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2012/11/08/research-in-motion-cuts-jobs-at-irving-headquarters/ Lightyear Network Solutions - 15 These aren't layoffs...they are permanent in an effort to downsize a company that has been losing money for a long time.
http://www.wkyt.com/wymt/home/headlines/Company-lays-off-workers-in-Pikeville-177766221.html Providence Journal - 23 This is a newspaper that has seen its circulation decline from 90,085 to 83,733 in a year's time. They have been regularly laying off employees like every other newspaper across the country as less Americans get their news from newspapers and choose to get it free from the Internet and television:
http://www2.turnto10.com/business/2012/nov/08/providence-journal-announces-more-layoffs-ar-1233784/ Hawker Beechcraft - 410 This company declared bankruptcy last year and sold to a chinese company in July of 2011. This recent round of layoffs was 170 people and their business has been in decline since 2008. They make luxury private jets for rich people and I'm assuming the rich can only own a certain amount of private luxury jets at one time:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20120802/us-hawker-beechcraft-layoffs/ Boeing 61,000 Boeing expanded it's business dramatically during the Iraq war with HUGE contracts with the defense department. As the war came to a close, they saw their business decline. I guess if you want constant war, Boeing would always be making billions from the government but this is their official statement: "Boeing said the changes were
not a response to the threat of additional, across-the-board U.S. budget cuts due to take effect on January 2, or the outcome of U.S. elections, but represented another step in its continuing drive to "be more competitive while investing in technologies and people." So the company itself is deying it has anything to do with the presidential elections and that they layoffs were planned and expected:
http://www.catholic.org/business/story.php?id=48428 CVPH Medical Center - 17 This hospital received $3.2 million dollars in federal grant money to keep their doors open but their expenses exceeded their revenues by more than $400,000. They simply don't know how to run a business apparently.
http://www.cvph.org/news-and-events/news-detail.aspx?newsid=45 US Cellular - 980 This was the result of a sale of a company to a competitor. Sprint (cell phone company) purchased US Cellular to eliminate a competitor in a certain market. This was a planned sale that took place over the past month, it just happened to be announced on Wednesday. It takes longer than one day to sell a mult-million dollar company:
http://www.wirelessweek.com/News/2012/11/carriers-Sprint-Buys-US-Cellular-Midwest-Markets-for-480M/ Commerzbank - 6,000 This is the funniest one so far. This is a bank from Germany and Poland that has absolutely no connection to the U.S. or Obama In looking for official layoff reports, I found this statement from the bank from Nov. 8 where they announced they are investing $2 BILLION euros in their company. Sounds like growth to me.
https://www.commerzbank.com/en/hauptnavigation/presse/pressemitteilungen/archiv1/2012/quartal_12_04/presse_archiv_detail_12_04_9794.html Iberia - 7,000 This is the second funniest because it's an airline out of SPAIN that has no connections (or jobs) to the U.S. Spain's economy has been sinking harder that the U.S. since 2007. Absolutely no connection to America or Obama:
http://www.theworld.org/2012/11/spains-iberia-airlines-announces-layoffs/ Momentive Performance Materials - 150 This is a TEMPORARY LAYOFF. All of these jobs will be reinstated in two weeks, as reported by the owner of the company here:
http://www.tylerstarnews.com/page/content.detail/id/508789/Momentive-Inc--plans-temporary-layoffs-for-150.html?nav=5008 Brake Parts, LLC - 75 These layoffs were disclosed on Oct. 29. I'm afraid that was a full week BEFORE Obama's re-election. Absolutely no connection here:
http://www.tylerstarnews.com/page/content.detail/id/508789/Momentive-Inc--plans-temporary-layoffs-for-150.html?nav=5008 Gameforge Berlin - 20 I'm not even looking this up. If people are stupid and desperate enough to blame Obama for the layoff of 20 people in Berlin, Germany, they are idiots. But then again, I wonder if they even realize that Berlin is in Germany and not in America. Probably not.
Vestas Wind Systems 1,700 Huge lie. First sentence in this story reports the layoffs to be 200 and not 1,700. Blatant lie there. It should be noted that this is a company from Denmark and not an American company. EDIT: I stand corrected on this as I found a quote from the article:
The combined layoffs, plus some attrition and relocations, have reduced Vestas' Colorado workforce from 1,700 to 1,200 this year. So we can assume the total number of employees is 1,700 (the amount the email suggests was laid off) and that the numbers laid off amount to 500.
http://www.denverpost.com/recommended/ci_21754574 Husqvarna - 390 This is a company based in Sweden, again absolutely no connection to Obama or the U.S. In fact, the majority of those affected are in Sweden or where their products are made in Poland:
http://www.appliancemagazine.com/news.php?article=1626614&zone=0&first=1 Ericsson - 14,000 This is another funny one. Ericsson is a Swedish company (like Husqvarna) and those layoffs are in Sweden. They are not 14,000, they are 1,550. Pretty big difference:
http://www.i4u.com/2012/11/sony-ericsson/ericsson-swedens-job-announces-cuts SRA International - 222 Another blatant lie. These layoffs were planned, (like another one) on October 29, 2012. A full week before Obama was re-elected. Here is all the info to prove that:
http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2012/11/06/sra-international-to-lay-off-222-in.html PerkinElmer - 75 This company is moving operations overseas to save money on having to pay Americans a livable wage. The governor of MA tried to talk them into keeping the jobs in America but the company refused to discuss it with them before making the decision to outsource their jobs:
http://articles.courant.com/2012-01-18/business/hc-perkinelmer-layoffs-20120118_1_transfer-jobs-perkinelmer-global-stage Majestic Star Casino and Hotel - 80 THIS is a company trying to destroy their union. Their workers are in a union and their contract ran out Oct. 31st. The company has made more money this year than they did last year but they are still cutting jobs despite making more money. A quote from the union representative: “These out-of-state owners who control billions are coming to Indiana and taking away our jobs,” said Coleman. It is also worth mentioning that these layoffs were
announced on Nov. 6th
before the election was officially over and anyone knew who won.
http://posttrib.suntimes.com/news/lake/16200678-418/layoffs-hit-garys-majestic-star.html Center for Hospice NY - 80 TOTAL LIE: This company is renovating its current location and these layoffs will occur NEXT YEAR and they will be TEMPORARY according to the person in charge:
http://www.buffalonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20121106/CITYANDREGION/121109477/1002 Bristol-Myers - 500 Numbers are wrong. It's 470 and everyone agrees that this is the direct result of mismanagement under CEO Lamberto Andreotti...quote from the story: "nominee for worst chief executive of the year."
http://www.fiercepharma.com/story/bristol-myers-slash-480-sales-related-jobs-nj/2012-11-06 Lower Bucks Hospital - 500 This is one of the biggest lies: THIRTY people were laid off. 30. Not 500. And the layoffs occurred on NOV.5, THE DAY BEFORE THE ELECTION. People who believe this stuff are idiots. Ironically, the CEO mentions in this article that they have
750 people on the payroll. Eliminating 500 of those seems kind of out of the question.
http://levittown.patch.com/articles/lower-bucks-hospital-lays-off-30-employees Oce North America - 9 I couldn't find a single news article to back this up with any kind of facts at all. Enough said.
Corning United Blood Services Gulf - 150 Again, there is absolutely not a single news story to back this claim up anywhere. If it happened, there would be a press release. Right wing blogs are announcing this with NO reference or citation.
Atlantic Lottery Corporation - 16 This is a Canadian company and these layoffs were announced NOV. 5th, a DAY BEFORE THE ELECTION.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labradostory/2012/11/05/nb-atlantic-lotto-layoffs.html Welch Allyn - 10% of manufacturing work force These layoffs were announce on September 10th, almost two full months before Obama was re-elected. These are going to take place over THE NEXT THREE YEARS in a restructuring effort:
http://www.qmed.com/news/welch-allyn-initiates-global-restructuring-including-layoffs Dana Holding - 12% of work force This is a total lie as well. The company released a financial report on Oct. 29th, 2012 and only said they were considering layoffs with NO specific numbers mentioned. The only place I can find this is on rightwing blogs, again, with no citations or references to any specifics. The company's report on Oct. 29th announced NO layoffs.
http://thurbersthoughts.blogspot.com/2012/10/dana-considering-layoffs-as-obamacare.html Stryker - approx 5% These were announced on June 25, 2012 and it's in response to trying to compensate for a new 2.3% tax on medical devices as part of the new health care act. I don't have to tell you how little 2.3% is and there is also no indiction that it would be 5% of it's employee force. The latest news says 'more than 100' positions would be laid off.
http://www.massdevice.com/news/stryker-begin-new-york-layoffs-ahead-medical-device-tax-wall-street-beat Boston Scientific - Unspecific (sic) amount These were announced in AUGUST and were a direct result of a change in management and a new CEO.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/29/us-bostonscientific-layoffs-idUSBRE87S0Z120120829 Medtronic - 1,000 ANNOUNCED SEPTEMBER 6TH, 2012 as a result of the company restructuring plan.
http://www.massdevice.com/news/layoffs-medtronic-cut-another-500-jobs-hopes-saving-125m-year Smith & Nephew - 80 This company is based in LONDON and these job cuts in Memphis were announced in September. This is the only real story I could find about it:
http://www.memphisdailynews.com/editorial/ArticleEmail.aspx?id=64753 Abbott Labs - 550 Announced on October 17th, about TWO SOLID WEEKS before Obama was re-elected. The facts hurt, I guess: Half of these workers being laid off are in EUROPE. Even though they are laying these people off, the overall amount of workers at Abbott Labs has grown due to additional acquisitions of other companies. Full story here:
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/abbott-labs-cuts-550-jobs-more-layoffs-planned-2012-10-17 Covidien - 600 This is funny. The company denies any reports of layoffs in May of this year, no real news of layoffs since then:
http://www.thesunchronicle.com/mansfield/covidien-denies-layoffs-report/article_a55f54db-b925-5b86-b246-136f2178e487.html?mode=story Kinetic Concepts - 300 This was announced on JULY 13th, 2012 as part of restructuring after a $6.3 billion dollar buyout in 2011.
http://www.massdevice.com/news/report-kinetic-concepts-lays-300-more St. Jude - 300 This was announced NOV. 2, FOUR DAYS before Obama was re-elected. I wonder if Romney would have won if these lunatics would be blaming Romney for the job losses that occurred 4 days before anyone knew who was going to be the next president: It should also be noted that the company blames poor sales of defibrillators and pacemakers, not on the economy.
http://www.startribune.com/business/176871351.html?refer=y Hill Rom - 200 This is ANOTHER company where the right wing blogs continue to report a layoff in these numbers (200) where there is absolutely no real news source or citation for this. Repeating something over and over doesn't make it true. Just look at Fox: They said Romney would be elected for the past month 1,000 times. Didn't make it so. I would put a source but since there is no source for this, I will leave it alone
Darden Restaurants - 3% This is the company that owns Red Lobster and the Olive Garden. All they are doing is cutting back hours so they aren't forced to cover employees' medical insurance. Typical big business: Just like Walmart: Wring your workers out for all you can get, work them JUST under the amount of hours where they would be provided some kind of health care security. Just a shitty company more than anything else but no reflection of the election at all but more of an attack on the new healthcare law.
JANCOA - 350 Utter lies. Jancoa is a janitorial outfit in Cincinnati, OH whose owner testified against the new health care law in congress. Funny that this reports she is laying off 350 workers when the owner herself REPORTS THAT THE ENTIRE COMPANY EMPLOYS 320 PEOPLE. Absolutely no layoffs reported anywhere from this company as of Nov. 9, 2012. Maybe it's republicans' wishful thinking?
http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2012/07/11/jancoa-ceo-mary-miller-testified-on.html submitted by Jeopardy! recap for Tue., Jul. 4 - Champ Jon led at every commercial break, and after Jacob took himself out of contention by missing both DDs in DJ, Jon finished well in a pop music category to put the game away with $19,600 going into FJ vs. $6,200 for Robert and $3,500 for Jacob.
DD1 - CASINO ROYALE - Gary, Indiana’s Majestic Star Casino has a royal view of this Great Lake (Jon won $600, picking the DD on the first selection as he did in the previous game and betting the same amount. He seemed a bit unprepared for it though, as he tried to ring in before responding and briefly forgot his phrasing.)
DD2 - LOOK AT THOSE CURVES - Most latitude & longitude lines curve on the gnomonic type of this, a way to map the round earth on a flat surface (Jacob lost $1,200)
DD3 - NEW WORDS... - The neurological condition prosopagnosia is often called this blindness for what isn’t recognized (Jacob lost $2,500)
FJ - CLASSIC CHILDREN'S LITERATURE - A 2016 biography of a children’s author is titled “In the Great Green Room”, a line from this classic book
Everyone missed FJ and Jon only dropped $400, winning with $19,200 for a three-day total of $64,300.
Triple Stumper of the day: Somehow, no one knew that a literary quote that included a reference to "Pip" came from "Great Expectations".
That's before our time: In "Red, White & Blue", the players couldn't identify legendary baseball announcer Red Barber. Later, they were also stumped on the recording star known in the early 60s for "I'm Sorry", Brenda Lee.
Correct Qs: DD1 - What is Michigan? DD2 - What is projection? DD3 - What is face blindness? FJ - What is "Goodnight Moon"?
submitted by Personally, I was very happy with The Last Jedi, but some people are very unhappy with it. Either way, a few years ago when work on The Force Awakens was announced, I wrote a brief screen treatment for my own version of Star Wars VII, and now I've decided to get it out, dust it off, and unveil it to
/StarWars. It follows a different continuity, so don't expect to see much you've seen before. Anyways, here it is.
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away….
STAR WARS EPISODE VII THE FORCE DIVIDED
CLICK HERE FOR THE TITLE CRAWL It is a peaceful and prosperous time. In the decades since the fall of the Empire, the NEW REPUBLIC has formed and spread across the Galaxy, promising peace to all. With the sinister Sith extinguished, a NEW JEDI ORDER, led by MASTER LUKE SKYWALKER, has arisen and built a new Jedi temple on Yavin. They aim to keep the peace and protect the Galaxy.
Not all is as well as it seems, however. The smuggler and war hero HAN SOLO has vanished, and GENERAL LEIA SKYWALKER has poured the New Republic’s resources into finding him and her son, to no avail. Even now, she has taken a REPUBLIC BATTLESHIP to his last known location, the DOSMERAN SYSTEM.
Meanwhile, in the OUTER RIM, an uprising is underway. VIOLENT REVOLUTIONARIES based on the planet Kyushu have begun a BLOODY REBELLION….
ACT ONE
On Kyushu, we see a mining village meant to provide the New Republic with spice. The village is in chaos as bombing run after bombing run is performed by unidentified ships. One of the village elders makes his way through the chaos and up a mountain towards a radio tower overlooking the town.
The village elder enters the radio station. Grabbing a microphone, he begins frantically calling for help, announcing that the village is under attack. Suddenly, power is cut to the building. Everything goes dark. The elder watches in horror as a shuttle lands outside, and a cloaked militaristic figure exits, followed by several similarly dressed guards wielding blasters. The figure enters the building, wearing a mask over its face, sees the elder, and in a distorted voice announces “This one is calling for backup! Take him away!”
As the elder is seized by two guards, he spits at the masked figure and says “It won't work, your little revolution! Democracy will win in the end!” The masked figure ignores him, so he spits in its face again. This time, it pauses and stares at him. Immediately, he looks panicked. As he gasps for air and clutches at his throat, his face turns blue. Finally, he collapses, and the two guards turn over his lifeless body. As the three militants leave the radio station, two other troops come out with flamethrowers and torch it. As the shuttle ascends it flies over the rest of the town, which has been thoroughly torched.
Back on Yavin, Luke Skywalker is training a bunch of younglings with practice lightsabers. Suddenly, he senses a disturbance in the Force. Sitting down, he is approached by a youngling, who he tells that class is finished for today. As he sits, his Com beeps. Opening it, he is connected with a hologram of General Leia Skywalker .
“Did you sense it, too?” he asks
“I'm afraid so.”
“It's been more frequent. These are difficult times. Get home soon, and may the force be with you.”
“And with you.” Millions of light years away, Leia closes her com. She is on a frigate, the
Majestic, in hyperspace surrounded by four unarmored guards.
Meanwhile, on the middle-rim planet Dosmeran, we see a bustling casino. In its shadow lies endless slums, just as primitive and dark as the casino is shimmering and futuristic and bright. Amongst these slums, we find a tavern, Rask’s Cantina, and inside, the legendary smuggler Han Solo and his first mate Chewbacca are anxiously awaiting someone’s arrival. The door opens, and the cantina goes silent as a large man dressed in red enters and sits. This is Edan, leader of a competing pirate gang. He sits across from Chewbacca and Han and stares at them in silence. Finally, after some time he asks “Well?”
“Look, Mr. Edan, I’m sorry about your fleet. We can pay double what it’s worth when…”
Edan cuts him off “Ha! That fleet was the finest bunch of pirates this side of Hosnian, and the ships they piloted were priceless, pillaged from the Empire itself! No amount of money could replace that!”
“Then ships. We’ll get you ships.” Chewie growls in agreement.
Edan stands over the table and grabs Han by his shirt, pulling him close. “You better get me ships. Or else somebody…” He pulls back slightly to reveal a blaster aimed at Han’s throat. “...Is gonna lose their daddy.”
Chewbacca roars and pulls Edan away, who fires a shot at Han but misses. It explodes on the ceiling. The barkeep stands up and begins shouting, then produces a blaster of his own and fires at Han. Chewbacca ducks, then re-emerges with his bowcaster and begins firing suppressing fire at the barkeep. At this point, the entire cantina erupts into gunfire as an all-out brawl begins. Han and Chewbacca try to slip away, but Edan follows. Han turns around and shoots Edan in the chest and he collapses. Han makes some cool quip, like “So much for repaying you”, but much cooler, and he and Chewbacca retreat out the back door. In the distance, we can see a New Republic assault lander descending on the tavern as the pair slips away into the streets towards the Falcon. The New Republic troops open fire on the tavern at large, reducing the building to rubble and presumably killing everyone inside.
As the pair boards the
Millennium Falcon, Huxley, the son of Han and Leia, powers on the ship. “Ready for departure, Captain!” He announces, to which Han congratulates him. The pair pulls off, but soon finds six Republic X-Wing Fighters chasing them down. They fend off the X-Wings, destroying one or two of them, and protect themselves long enough to make the jump to hyperspace.
~~~~~
Aboard the
Majestic, General Leia Skywalker sits meditating. In one hand is a pendant, containing a shard of kyber crystal, which she clutches delicately. In the other hand, held equally delicately, is a cup of tea. As the Majestic leaves hyperspace, it shudders, and her tea spills slightly. This breaks her meditation, and she goes to the bridge.
On the bridge, her first mate Ualan Fan announces that they are approaching Dosmeran. He also mentions that he’s been monitoring local law enforcement transmissions, and that six Republic fighters were scrambled to pursue a suspect who matched Han’s description. She inquires whether he had a boy with him, but Fan does not know.
Leia, Fan, and her four armed guards park the
Majestic in Dosmeran's orbit and descend in a lander. When they land, Fan advises Leia that she is probably not a welcome presence on the planet, and that she should watch her back. She agrees, and decides to use a piece of cloth to veil her face. Nobody is in Republic uniform.
The six arrive at Rask’s and find the place crawling with both local law enforcement and Republic troops. Leia unveils her face and identifies herself, and the Republic troops snap to attention. From out of the building comes a Republic Captain, who identifies himself as Captain Reed, and he explains to her what happened. Fan points out that it sounds like Solo, and Leia agrees. They survey the building. Republic troops work to contain the blaze from the blaster fire, while corpses litter the floor. Leia points to the bar, where Rask himself lays partially exploded and burnt behind the destroyed bar. “It would take a wookie bowcaster to pack that kind of punch.” She turns back to Cpt. Reed and asks where the perps went. Reed explains that, after the attack, the fugitives boarded an old freighter and held off six X-Wings, downing two, before making the jump to hyperspace. They managed to track their direction, but couldn’t plot an exact location, but they appeared to be near the Endor system.
~~~~~
Back on Yavin 4, Luke sits eating in his chamber. His communicator buzzes, and a hologram of General Leia appears. She informs Luke that they’ve tracked down Solo and requests that he meet them on Endor. Luke readies two of his most promising padawans, Asher and Jayde, as well as the droids R2D2 and C3PO, and they board Luke’s personal cruiser, the
Starkiller, and makes the jump to hyperspace towards Endor.
~~~~~
On Dosmeran, we see the burnt out cantina again. Republic troops are beginning to carry away the corpses for burial. Suddenly, the masked figure appears again. Surprised, Captain Reed greets it as “General”. The General says that he is not pleased with the reports he is receiving from the investigation, and has decided to check himself. Captain Reed says that many of the corpses have already been buried, but the General insists on discovering whether or not a BlasTech DL-44 blaster was used. Captain Reed says there’s no way to know for certain, but the blast marks were consistent with the DL-44, to which the General force-chokes him and drags him towards his face. With Captain Reed inches from the General’s mask we see vapor form and hit him in the face as the General demands he finds out. The General then turns to leave, and only once he’s completely off-screen does Captain Reed drop to the ground massaging his neck.
~~~~~
In orbit above Endor, the crew of the
Millenium Falcon are making repairs. Huxley Skywalker-Solo dons a space suit and goes EVA to repair the blaster damage to the ship, and he remarks how much he wishes they had an AstroMech droid to do this for him. Han insists that he used to do this kind of thing all the time, to which Chewbacca growls something. Han covers his com and whispers to Chewbacca “I know I didn’t, but someone did.” A thumping sound is heard as the
Majestic comes out of hyperspace, and Chewbacca and Han begin to panic that they successfully followed him. With Huxley still on EVA and holding on by a tether, they begin landing maneuvers on Endor. Huxley must get into the
Falcon before they enter the atmosphere.
As the
Falcon descends on Endor, we realize that it’s no longer the moon we remembered. The explosion of the second Death Star several decades ago has left much of the world charred, and it has developed large icy poles. Dead trees litter the surface, and a large debris field where the Death Star crashed into the moon almost gives the moon itself the appearance of the Death Star II. As the crew lands, the once lush rainforests lay dead and frozen, and thick grey snow blankets the ground. The crew lays silently in the
Falcon as Han tracks the
Majestic. Leia’s ship comes very close to discovering them, and pretty much flies right over them, but the grey ship blends in well with the grey snow, and the
Majestic passes over, landing a few miles west of their position. Huxley doesn’t know what to do, and Han suggests making a run for it, but Chewbacca says they should wait it out.
Above Endor, a third ship arrives from hyperspace. The
Starkiller, piloted by Luke Skywalker, descends into the atmosphere and lands alongside the
Majestic. Luke, Asher, and Jayde disembark, leaving the droids to watch the ship. They walk over to the
Majestic and board.
On board the Republic ship, they are greeted by Ualan Fan, who tells them that General Leia is getting ready and will greet them shortly, and they are welcome to wait for her on board to avoid the frigid temperature outside. Jayde hears a whisper, and asks if anyone else hears it. Seconds later, Asher hears the whisper, and the two go to investigate. They make it no further than a few feet down the hallway to a locked door when they hear a door open behind them. Back in the main room, the two Skywalkers are reunited, and Luke calls for the padawans to meet his sister.
Leia tells Luke that they’ve tracked the
Falcon to this specific region of Endor, and that she can feel her son’s presence very nearby. They bundle up and head out into the dead forest to find him.
~~~~~
ACT TWO
~~~~~
At the
Falcon, Huxley has ventured back outside to complete his repairs. Chewbacca has gone with him for protection. Huxley confides in Chewbacca that sometimes he questions his father’s authority, and that he misses his mom. Chewbacca parrots what Han has been telling him, that it’s for the best and his mother has no time for him. They work on the repairs. Suddenly, a blaster bolt explodes against the
Falcon, and Chewbacca lets loose a bowcaster bolt into the darkness. The two try to make their way to the door, where Han appears and reaches for his blaster, only for it to not be there Indiana Jones-style. Huxley lifts his father’s blaster from his own belt and fires into the darkness, hearing a screech as his mark hits. A small bear-like creature runs out wielding a club, and Chewbacca hits it with his bowcaster. Horrified, the trio re-enter the Falcon and close it up. As blaster fire thuds against the outside of the ship, they turn on floodlights and reveal that they are surrounded by murderous ewoks, bearing old Stormtrooper arms left over from the Imperial Shield Base that was on the moon during the Civil War. Some are even wearing pieces of stormtrooper armor. Han fires up the ship’s blaster and uses the turret to kill several ewoks, scaring the rest away.
~~~~~
A few miles away, Luke pauses at the sound of blaster fire. After a beat, the others hear it too, and they head towards it. Soon, they hear noise in the snow ahead of them. They hide as an army of stormtrooper-clad ewoks rush by screaming and retreating. One drops a blaster, which Leia identifies as Civil War era Stormtrooper tech. Luke points out that they might have to be afraid of what the ewoks were running from more than the ewoks themselves. They proceed with caution, with Asher wielding the extra blaster.
Presently, they come across the clearing that is lit up by the
Falcon, which sits in the middle of it. Han and Chewbacca are out repairing the exterior of the ship. Leia stands and calls out to Han, demanding he return her son. Han insists that her son is safe, but he doesn’t want to see her. He says that her New Republic is everything they fought to destroy in the Empire, and that he’d rather have his son grow up as a smuggler like him than spread injustice throughout the Galaxy. Leia insists he’s exaggerating, and plays stupid when Han mentions things like the massacres at Dosmeran and Kyushu. He insists that they fought for freedom, but she’s let the New Republic slip into the same trap.
At this point, Luke steps in and demand that Han at least give them audience. Han asks why he would want to see Luke, to which Luke responds “I saved your life, Han. At least give me this.” Han hesitates for a minute, but Huxley appears and opens fire on his mom and uncle with his father’s blaster. Leia is hit and collapses in the snow. Luke tries to pick her up, but she insists that it’s too late and he should escape while he can. Luke, Jayde, and Asher retreat into the forest, leaving Leia bleeding out in the snow.
~~~~~
Aboard the
Millennium Falcon, Han confronts Huxley, asking him what the hell he just did. They argue over whether it was right to shoot Leia, and Huxley raises his hand in anger and punches Han, who stumbles backwards and falls into his seat, nose crooked and bleeding. Han glares at Huxley for a minute, before muttering “I should’ve left you to rot with your mother” and stumbling back into his quarters on the ship. Huxley sits down and thinks about what he did. He reaches into his jacket and pulls out his father’s blaster, setting it on the table. He then searches through his trunks in his personal bedchambers until he produces his own lightsaber. He ignites it, staring at the blue blade.
~~~~~
Above Endor, another ship comes out of hyperspace. It is the
Avenger, a New Republic Destroyer. Around it, several other New Republic battleships appear. A lander descends down towards the planet.
Leia’s body lays in the snow near the
Falcon. Silently, two New Republic soldiers appear over her crumpled form and signal over the rest of their platoon. The soldiers pick Leia up and carry her back towards their lander. She’s alive, but just barely.
~~~~~
Huddled in a nearby cave, Asher and Jayde try to comfort Luke about the loss of his sister, but he insists that he can still feel her, that she’s still alive. More importantly, he now knows that his nephew is still alive, and needs his help. Luke reveals to Asher and Jayde that Huxley was a student of his who showed great promise, but was barely trained when he stole a lightsaber and ran off with Han. He explains that, as an untrained Jedi, Huxley poses a great threat, and that he’ll have to be dealt with safely but non-lethally, as he also still has great promise and should be spared.
The sound of a spaceship cracks through the night, and Asher says he hopes they’re friendly. Something else howls in the darkness, and you can faintly hear the cries of an ewok war party somewhere.
~~~~~
On board the
Avenger, the General stands before Mon Mothma, who is like 70 at this point. She inquires about General Skywalker, and the General assures her that she was recovered and is being given medical treatment. She is expected to survive. The General tells Mothma that technically the encounter on Endor was an attempt on a Republic official’s life, and that it cannot be tolerated. Mothma sighs, and then gives the General full permission to begin a military strike against Han Solo and capture him and the boy dead or alive.
~~~~~
In the cave, Luke and Jayde are asleep. Asher is standing watch, and beginning to drift off, when he hears the whispering again. He snaps awake and silently walks past the other sleeping Jedi and into the depths of the cave. Igniting his blue lightsaber to light his way, he follows the whispering deeper into the cave, until he sees that it’s coming through a gap too small to walk through. He turns off his lightsaber and gets on his hands and knees.
Crawling through the gap, Asher finds himself in the
Majestic. The lights are off initially, but as he stands up red running lights turn on in the hallway, guiding him towards the doorway to Leia’s chambers. The whispering beckons him on. As he creeps through the silent spaceship, the whispering intensifies, until he is standing before the doorway. He presses a button, and the door opens into Leia’s chamber, which is also bathed in red. It looks as if it has been ransacked, with clothes scattered here and there. On the bed are several outfits, including a mask that is identical to that of The General. Asher is oblivious to the connotation, but the audience should start to realize it. The whisper intensifies as Asher reaches for the mask, but just before he can catch it he is awoken by Jayde, who informs him that he fell asleep on the watch and she’s relieving him. He is back in the cave and goes to sleep.
~~~~~
Chewbacca enters Han’s chamber and asks if he’s okay. Still nursing a broken nose, Han tells Chewie that their position has been compromised. They express that they would just give the kid to Leia at this point if they could, and Chewie contemplates dumping him in the snow, but Han won’t let him. Instead, they lock Huxley in his bedchamber and venture out into the snow to recover Leia’s body, but when they discover the boot prints and absence of a body, they realize that the Republic is closer than they thought. They board the ship and prepare for takeoff.
~~~~~
Aboard the
Majestic, the droids are scanning for signs of life. They find Luke and the padawans in the cave, but can’t locate Leia so they radio in. Jayde tells them that Leia has been killed by her son, and they begin to panic. They try to establish contact with the
Avenger but cannot. Continuing their scan for lifeforms, they find a large mass of something living heading towards Luke and the padawans’ position. They radio Jayde, who wakes up the others.
The Jedi exit the cave and find that they have been set upon by wolf-like creatures. They run back towards the
Majestic, but the creatures are gaining on them. Finally, the creatures catch up and Luke and the Padawans are forced to stand and fight. They manage to fend off the wolves with their lightsabers, but Luke’s mechanical hand is severely damaged in the process, causing him to drop his lightsaber. They continue their trek back to the
Majestic.
~~~~~
The crew of the
Falcon begin the take-off sequence. They rise above the treeline and briefly see the rising sun above the ashy snowstorm covering the planet, but then the
Avenger descends upon them and begins firing on them. Chewbacca pilots while Han shoots X-Wings out of the sky as the
Avenger tries desperately to shoot them down. In the commotion, Huxley uses his lightsaber to cut his way out of his bedchamber and attempts to murder Chewbacca, who throws him to the side. Han abandons the gun to protect his crew and pulls his blaster on his son, but cannot bring himself to fire. Huxley grins, tells Han that he’s weak just like Leia always said, and beheads Han with his lightsaber. Chewbacca pounces towards Huxley, leaving nobody to pilot the
Falcon. An X-Wing shoots the cockpit, disabling the controls, and the
Falcon plummets back into Endor’s atmosphere. The X-Wings pull off, assuming the crew to be dead.
The
Falcon falls through the atmosphere with Huxley and Chewbacca locked in combat inside. Chewbacca knocks Hux’s lightsaber out of his hand, and it falls out the gaping hole where the cockpit used to be. Huxley grabs his father’s DL-44 and shoots the wookie, who cries out in pain. The
Falcon collides with the burnt out forest, which explodes into charcoal dust, and eventually comes crashing down to the ground and ignites.
~~~~~
Already in pain, Luke is forced to sit down by feeling the loss of his friend, Han. They can hear the explosion as the ship falls to the ground, and can see the smoke trail it left in the growing dawn light. Jayde sits alongside him, attempting to comfort him, but Asher insists that they have to keep moving if they want a chance of survival. Presently, they continue towards the
Majestic.
~~~~~
Aboard the
Avenger, The General is informed that the
Falcon has been shot down, and that the fugitives are presumed dead. The General orders a search party to be sent down to find the Jedi and bring them in for questioning, as they are “guilty by association”, as well as a second search party to be sent down to find the wreck of the
Millennium Falcon and ensure that there are no survivors.
Once the search party departs, the General asks for her own ship to be readied, as she says she doesn’t trust the Republic soldiers to do a “thorough job” with it. As she said, “ensure there are NO survivors”.
~~~~~
ACT THREE
~~~~~
On the surface of Endor, we see the sun rise over the burning wreckage of the
Millennium Falcon. Though is is engulfed in flames, it is not so mangled that we can’t tell what it is. Inside, Chewbacca and Huxley lay side by side, unconscious. Chewbacca comes to, turns over, groans, then realizes the danger. He tries to wake Huxley, but to no avail. The boy is severely injured, and bleeding from his face. Chewbacca pulls Huxley clear of the wreckage, then turns to go back in for Han’s corpse, but the
Falcon continues burning even stronger. Chewbacca knows that, even if he were able to get back in, there wouldn’t be much of Han’s body left to bury, and it seems fitting that a captain go down with his ship. Chewbacca sits next to Huxley’s limp, bloody body and watches the fire. He notices an abandoned Imperial outpost nearby, and makes note of it as a place to stay warm.
Suddenly, the atmospheric crack of a descending spaceship sounds. Chewie looks up and sees two Republic landers descending. He panics, picking up the boy, and runs into the forest in the direction of the Imperial outpost.
The Republic lander comes to rest adjacent to the
Falcon’s wreckage, and a squad of Republic troops disembark, led by Captain Reed. Reed orders them to search for survivors, and one soldier comments that nobody could survive the inferno. They secure the perimeter and wait for the fire to die down before they can carry out their search.
~~~~~
Exhausted, the Jedi finally make it to the
Majestic. They inform Ualan Fan that they believe Leia to be dead and that, in addition to now being the commander of the
Majestic, as far as they’re concerned he is now a General for the New Republic. They grab the droids and are about to retreat to the
Starkiller for takeoff, when Fan informs them that the
Falcon was shot down and everyone inside it presumed dead. Luke is taken aback, as he assumes that he had only felt Leia’s death, but slowly realizes that this means Leia may still be alive. He leaves the padawans with the
Majestic and sets off on his own in the
Starkiller to find her, presuming she’ll still be where he last saw her.
~~~~~
At the
Falcon’s wreckage, another Republic lander descends. The General’s personal guard emerges, followed by The General herself. She demands to know whether they found bodies, and Reed informs her that the blaze was so intense they were unable to enter the ship, but whoever was in there is certainly dead. Immediately, he begins to choke, and this time she actually raises her arm and pulls her to him, whispering through her mask directly into his face “I didn’t want to know where the bodies
probably are. I wanted to see bodies. If I can’t see theirs, I may as well see yours. Go get them!” With the Force, she throws him into the burning spaceship, where he burns alive.
She turns to everyone else, then notices something. She points out to the search party that there are clearly wookie tracks leading away from the wreck, which they try to explain as curious ewok scavengers. She accuses them all of insubordination, ignites her red lightsaber, and murders all eleven remaining members of the search party. Turning away from the burning
Falcon, she sets out through the snow following the Wookie’s tracks.
~~~~~
Some distance away, Chewbacca kicks in the door of the abandoned imperial outpost. As he sets Huxley down, the boy begins to stir. The wookie takes Han’s gun away from him, growls at him one last time, and sets back out on his own to find the
Majestic and the
Starkiller, which he had previously seen on the
Falcon’s tracking system. The boy comes to, demands the wookie not leave him to die, but is ultimately left defenseless.
~~~~~
Aboard the
Starkiller, Luke is making his way to the
Falcon’s last known location when he sees the wreckage from the air. Instead, he lands next to the Republic lander and begins using the Force to stack snow on the burning spaceship, stifling the flames. Entering the ruined ship, he discovers Han’s jacket, shed during the fight, and clutches it to his heart. He buries Han’s remains alongside the crashed
Falcon, as well as the murdered soldiers, who he recognizes as having been killed with a lightsaber. He assumes at this point that they were murdered by Huxley. Finding the Wookie footprints and the human footprints, he sets out to protect Chewbacca, who he believes Huxley to be pursuing.
~~~~~
At the Imperial Outpost, Huxley is pounding on the door trying to be let out, but the wookie has long since abandoned him. Finally, he calms down, collects himself, and breathes. He notices that the vapor from his warm breath trails in a certain direction, and soon realizes that air is moving through the building. Picking up a handful of dust, he tosses it, makes note of the air’s direction, and follows it. He does this again and again, until he discovers a hole in the structure. Using rocks as tools, he bashes the edges of the ancient concrete wall away until the hole is large enough for him to climb out of. He sees the tracks of the pack of wolves, and decides to go the other way.
~~~~~
At the
Majestic, the padawans and Ualan Fan are arguing about whether to leave for a safer planet or wait to hear back from the
Starkiller. Ualan insists that, if they left now, they’d be able to take refuge on Kuna’s Tooth, a planet in the ewok Kuna constellation, before the Republic would know they were gone, but the padawans insist that they want to hear back from Master Skywalker first. As they’re arguing, C3PO, who is looking out the window, informs them that they are too late either way.
Outside, the other Republic lander appears, and the second search team disembarks and surrounds the
Majestic. Their captain, Captain Fu, informs them that they are wanted by the New Republic for questioning in relation to the crimes committed by the pirate known as Han Solo, and demands that they surrender themselves. After some deliberation, the crew decides to hide their weapons on their person and comply. When they express their intent to do so, Captain Fu even allows them to land the
Majestic aboard the
Avenger themselves. The
Majestic and her crew depart for the
Avenger.
~~~~~
Meanwhile, on the
Avenger, Mothma is growing concerned that she has only heard back from one search party. She sends a battalion down to investigate, led by Sergeant Idris Rodya. They land at the
Falcon’s landing site and, because the previous search party was buried, find nothing but the abandoned lander. They report this, then find the footprints and also set out into the snow.
~~~~~
The General finds the imperial outpost and shoots the door open, but finds it empty. While she’s investigating, she senses a presence with the Force. Emerging back into the open, she finds Master Luke Skywalker waiting for her. They have a brief exchange about her being a traitor to the Republic’s values, and she insists that he is a traitor to the Republic itself. Luke recognizes that argument and asks The General if she is Leia, to which she produces and ignites her red lightsaber and charges him. She attacks him viciously, while he works only to defend himself. He pleads with her to stop what she’s doing as she is falling to the dark side as he almost did decades ago. At one point, he cuts away part of her mask with his lightsaber so we can see her face underneath it, and it is indeed Leia. General Leia becomes enraged and doubles down on her attacks, which easily outweigh the injured Skywalker (who, remember, lost a hand and is fighting with his left hand and with his own lightsaber instead of the Skywalker Saber). She disarms him, cutting off his other hand, and begins to force-choke him while she lectures him about devotion to the Republic and how great he could become if he only joined her, to which he replies “You sound like our father” and uses the Force to ignite his lightsaber underneath her, injuring her foot and making her drop him. She retreats back towards the Falcon’s wreck and her transport, leaving Luke injured in the snow.
~~~~~
Off in the frozen forest, Huxley is still following the wolves’ prints when he comes across the clearing where the Jedi’s confrontation with the animals had occurred before. He finds Luke’s prosthetic hand, still clutching the Skywalker lightsaber, and he ignites it, smiling to himself. Now that he has a weapon, he turns around and cuts back towards the
Falcon’s wreck. However, he is intercepted by Leia, who is overwhelmed with emotion seeing her boy all grown up. She begs him to come to her, to let her hold him, to let her nurse his wounds. He does, and together they make it back towards her landing craft at the site of the wreck of the
Falcon. Huxley confirms to her that Han is dead, and though she seems remorseful, she is still happy that her son is safe with her. They board the lander and ascend towards the
Avenger.
~~~~~
Luke is laying in the snow freezing to death when Yoda and Obi-Wan visit him in Force-Ghost form. They chastise him for giving up so easily and remind him that his father kept fighting until his last moments, and it was ultimately his only redemption. They then disappear. He calls out after them, and Chewbacca hears it and comes to his rescue. With Chewie’s help, he returns to the
Starkiller, where they see Leia’s transport returning to the Avenger. Chewbacca pilots the
Starkiller towards the Avenger while Luke installs a replacement for the mechanical hand that he lost and fashions a crude replacement claw for his other hand.
Roll credits.
Westinghouse - 200 Total lie. They are laying off 50 people, not 200, and have been slowly closing their operations down since Sept. 11, 2011. So they announced the company will be closed by 2015 in 2011:
http://annistonstar.com/view/full_story/20755025/article-More-layoffs-announced-at-Anniston-weapons-incinerator?instance=1st_left Research in Motion Ltd - 3,000 These layoffs were announced in June of 2012. Not because of the economy but because they create a product that has lost demand since other competitors have sold more goods:
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2012/11/08/research-in-motion-cuts-jobs-at-irving-headquarters/ Lightyear Network Solutions - 15 These aren't layoffs...they are permanent in an effort to downsize a company that has been losing money for a long time.
http://www.wkyt.com/wymt/home/headlines/Company-lays-off-workers-in-Pikeville-177766221.html Providence Journal - 23 This is a newspaper that has seen its circulation decline from 90,085 to 83,733 in a year's time. They have been regularly laying off employees like every other newspaper across the country as less Americans get their news from newspapers and choose to get it free from the Internet and television:
http://www2.turnto10.com/business/2012/nov/08/providence-journal-announces-more-layoffs-ar-1233784/ Hawker Beechcraft - 410 This company declared bankruptcy last year and sold to a chinese company in July of 2011. This recent round of layoffs was 170 people and their business has been in decline since 2008. They make luxury private jets for rich people and I'm assuming the rich can only own a certain amount of private luxury jets at one time:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20120802/us-hawker-beechcraft-layoffs/ Boeing 61,000 Boeing expanded it's business dramatically during the Iraq war with HUGE contracts with the defense department. As the war came to a close, they saw their business decline. I guess if you want constant war, Boeing would always be making billions from the government but this is their official statement: "Boeing said the changes were
not a response to the threat of additional, across-the-board U.S. budget cuts due to take effect on January 2, or the outcome of U.S. elections, but represented another step in its continuing drive to "be more competitive while investing in technologies and people." So the company itself is deying it has anything to do with the presidential elections and that they layoffs were planned and expected:
http://www.catholic.org/business/story.php?id=48428 CVPH Medical Center - 17 This hospital received $3.2 million dollars in federal grant money to keep their doors open but their expenses exceeded their revenues by more than $400,000. They simply don't know how to run a business apparently.
http://www.catholic.org/business/story.php?id=48428 US Cellular - 980 This was the result of a sale of a company to a competitor. Sprint (cell phone company) purchased US Cellular to eliminate a competitor in a certain market. This was a planned sale that took place over the past month, it just happened to be announced on Wednesday. It takes longer than one day to sell a mult-million dollar company:
http://www.wirelessweek.com/News/2012/11/carriers-Sprint-Buys-US-Cellular-Midwest-Markets-for-480M/ Commerzbank - 6,000 This is the funniest one so far. This is a bank from Germany and Poland that has absolutely no connection to the U.S. or Obama In looking for official layoff reports, I found this statement from the bank from Nov. 8 where they announced they are investing $2 BILLION euros in their company. Sounds like growth to me.
https://www.commerzbank.com/en/hauptnavigation/presse/pressemitteilungen/archiv1/2012/quartal_12_04/presse_archiv_detail_12_04_9794.html Iberia - 7,000 This is the second funniest because it's an airline out of SPAIN that has no connections (or jobs) to the U.S. Spain's economy has been sinking harder that the U.S. since 2007. Absolutely no connection to America or Obama:
http://www.theworld.org/2012/11/spains-iberia-airlines-announces-layoffs/ Momentive Performance Materials - 150 This is a TEMPORARY LAYOFF. All of these jobs will be reinstated in two weeks, as reported by the owner of the company here:
http://www.tylerstarnews.com/page/content.detail/id/508789/Momentive-Inc--plans-temporary-layoffs-for-150.html?nav=5008 Brake Parts, LLC - 75 These layoffs were disclosed on Oct. 29. I'm afraid that was a full week BEFORE Obama's re-election. Absolutely no connection here:
http://www.tylerstarnews.com/page/content.detail/id/508789/Momentive-Inc--plans-temporary-layoffs-for-150.html?nav=5008 Gameforge Berlin - 20 I'm not even looking this up. If people are stupid and desperate enough to blame Obama for the layoff of 20 people in Berlin, Germany, they are idiots. But then again, I wonder if they even realize that Berlin is in Germany and not in America. Probably not.
Vestas Wind Systems 1,700 Huge lie. First sentence in this story reports the layoffs to be 200 and not 1,700. Blatant lie there. It should be noted that this is a company from Denmark and not an American company. EDIT: I stand corrected on this as I found a quote from the article:
The combined layoffs, plus some attrition and relocations, have reduced Vestas' Colorado workforce from 1,700 to 1,200 this year. So we can assume the total number of employees is 1,700 (the amount the email suggests was laid off) and that the numbers laid off amount to 500.
http://www.denverpost.com/recommended/ci_21754574 Husqvarna - 390 This is a company based in Sweden, again absolutely no connection to Obama or the U.S. In fact, the majority of those affected are in Sweden or where their products are made in Poland:
http://www.appliancemagazine.com/news.php?article=1626614&zone=0&first=1 Ericsson - 14,000 This is another funny one. Ericsson is a Swedish company (like Husqvarna) and those layoffs are in Sweden. They are not 14,000, they are 1,550. Pretty big difference:
http://www.i4u.com/2012/11/sony-ericsson/ericsson-swedens-job-announces-cuts SRA International - 222 Another blatant lie. These layoffs were planned, (like another one) on October 29, 2012. A full week before Obama was re-elected. Here is all the info to prove that:
http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2012/11/06/sra-international-to-lay-off-222-in.html PerkinElmer - 75 This company is moving operations overseas to save money on having to pay Americans a livable wage. The governor of MA tried to talk them into keeping the jobs in America but the company refused to discuss it with them before making the decision to outsource their jobs:
http://articles.courant.com/2012-01-18/business/hc-perkinelmer-layoffs-20120118_1_transfer-jobs-perkinelmer-global-stage Majestic Star Casino and Hotel - 80 THIS is a company trying to destroy their union. Their workers are in a union and their contract ran out Oct. 31st. The company has made more money this year than they did last year but they are still cutting jobs despite making more money. A quote from the union representative: “These out-of-state owners who control billions are coming to Indiana and taking away our jobs,” said Coleman. It is also worth mentioning that these layoffs were
announced on Nov. 6th
before the election was officially over and anyone knew who won.
http://posttrib.suntimes.com/news/lake/16200678-418/layoffs-hit-garys-majestic-star.html Center for Hospice NY - 80 TOTAL LIE: This company is renovating its current location and these layoffs will occur NEXT YEAR and they will be TEMPORARY according to the person in charge:
http://www.buffalonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20121106/CITYANDREGION/121109477/1002 Bristol-Myers - 500 Numbers are wrong. It's 470 and everyone agrees that this is the direct result of mismanagement under CEO Lamberto Andreotti...quote from the story: "nominee for worst chief executive of the year."
http://www.fiercepharma.com/story/bristol-myers-slash-480-sales-related-jobs-nj/2012-11-06 Lower Bucks Hospital - 500 This is one of the biggest lies: THIRTY people were laid off. 30. Not 500. And the layoffs occurred on NOV.5, THE DAY BEFORE THE ELECTION. People who believe this stuff are idiots. Ironically, the CEO mentions in this article that they have
750 people on the payroll. Eliminating 500 of those seems kind of out of the question.
http://levittown.patch.com/articles/lower-bucks-hospital-lays-off-30-employees Oce North America - 9 I couldn't find a single news article to back this up with any kind of facts at all. Enough said.
Corning United Blood Services Gulf - 150 Again, there is absolutely not a single news story to back this claim up anywhere. If it happened, there would be a press release. Right wing blogs are announcing this with NO reference or citation.
Atlantic Lottery Corporation - 16 This is a Canadian company and these layoffs were announced NOV. 5th, a DAY BEFORE THE ELECTION.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labradostory/2012/11/05/nb-atlantic-lotto-layoffs.html Welch Allyn - 10% of manufacturing work force These layoffs were announce on September 10th, almost two full months before Obama was re-elected. These are going to take place over THE NEXT THREE YEARS in a restructuring effort:
http://www.qmed.com/news/welch-allyn-initiates-global-restructuring-including-layoffs Dana Holding - 12% of work force This is a total lie as well. The company released a financial report on Oct. 29th, 2012 and only said they were considering layoffs with NO specific numbers mentioned. The only place I can find this is on rightwing blogs, again, with no citations or references to any specifics. The company's report on Oct. 29th announced NO layoffs.
http://thurbersthoughts.blogspot.com/2012/10/dana-considering-layoffs-as-obamacare.html Stryker - approx 5% These were announced on June 25, 2012 and it's in response to trying to compensate for a new 2.3% tax on medical devices as part of the new health care act. I don't have to tell you how little 2.3% is and there is also no indiction that it would be 5% of it's employee force. The latest news says 'more than 100' positions would be laid off.
http://www.massdevice.com/news/stryker-begin-new-york-layoffs-ahead-medical-device-tax-wall-street-beat Boston Scientific - Unspecific (sic) amount These were announced in AUGUST and were a direct result of a change in management and a new CEO.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/29/us-bostonscientific-layoffs-idUSBRE87S0Z120120829 Medtronic - 1,000 ANNOUNCED SEPTEMBER 6TH, 2012 as a result of the company restructuring plan.
http://www.massdevice.com/news/layoffs-medtronic-cut-another-500-jobs-hopes-saving-125m-year Smith & Nephew - 80 This company is based in LONDON and these job cuts in Memphis were announced in September. This is the only real story I could find about it:
http://www.memphisdailynews.com/editorial/ArticleEmail.aspx?id=64753 Abbott Labs - 550 Announced on October 17th, about TWO SOLID WEEKS before Obama was re-elected. The facts hurt, I guess: Half of these workers being laid off are in EUROPE. Even though they are laying these people off, the overall amount of workers at Abbott Labs has grown due to additional acquisitions of other companies. Full story here:
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/abbott-labs-cuts-550-jobs-more-layoffs-planned-2012-10-17 Covidien - 600 This is funny. The company denies any reports of layoffs in May of this year, no real news of layoffs since then:
http://www.thesunchronicle.com/mansfield/covidien-denies-layoffs-report/article_a55f54db-b925-5b86-b246-136f2178e487.html?mode=story Kinetic Concepts - 300 This was announced on JULY 13th, 2012 as part of restructuring after a $6.3 billion dollar buyout in 2011.
http://www.massdevice.com/news/report-kinetic-concepts-lays-300-more St. Jude - 300 This was announced NOV. 2, FOUR DAYS before Obama was re-elected. I wonder if Romney would have won if these lunatics would be blaming Romney for the job losses that occurred 4 days before anyone knew who was going to be the next president: It should also be noted that the company blames poor sales of defibrillators and pacemakers, not on the economy.
http://www.startribune.com/business/176871351.html?refer=y Hill Rom - 200 This is ANOTHER company where the right wing blogs continue to report a layoff in these numbers (200) where there is absolutely no real news source or citation for this. Repeating something over and over doesn't make it true. Just look at Fox: They said Romney would be elected for the past month 1,000 times. Didn't make it so. I would put a source but since there is no source for this, I will leave it alone
Darden Restaurants - 3% This is the company that owns Red Lobster and the Olive Garden. All they are doing is cutting back hours so they aren't forced to cover employees' medical insurance. Typical big business: Just like Walmart: Wring your workers out for all you can get, work them JUST under the amount of hours where they would be provided some kind of health care security. Just a shitty company more than anything else but no reflection of the election at all but more of an attack on the new healthcare law.
JANCOA - 350 Utter lies. Jancoa is a janitorial outfit in Cincinnati, OH whose owner testified against the new health care law in congress. Funny that this reports she is laying off 350 workers when the owner herself REPORTS THAT THE ENTIRE COMPANY EMPLOYS 320 PEOPLE. Absolutely no layoffs reported anywhere from this company as of Nov. 9, 2012. Maybe it's republicans' wishful thinking?
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