Posted on 04/18/2015 6:40:07 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Conspiracy theorists are working overtime to explain why Walmart suddenly closed 5 stores in 3 states this week, laying off 2200 workers. The stores are expected to reopen in 6 months.
The company claims the closings are releated to ongoing and pervasive plumbing problems. But the conspiracy theorists believe it has more to do with workers who took part in the Black Friday strike than with faulty sewers.
Business Insider:
Wal-Mart employees say they were completely blindsided by the news, having been notified only a couple hours before the stores closed at 7 p.m. Monday.
"Everybody just panicked and started crying," Venanzi Luna, a manager at a store in Pico Rivera, California, told CNN Money.
All workers will receive paid leave for two months. After that, full-time workers could become eligible for severance, according to CNN Money. But part-time workers will be on their own.
Local officials and employees have questioned Wal-Mart's reasoning for the closures.
According to ABC News, "no plumbing permits have been pulled in any of the five cities where the stores were suddenly closed for at least six months." The cities where locations were closed include: Brandon, Florida; Pico Rivera, California; Livingston, Texas; Midland, Texas; and Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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With the exception of the WalMart in CA, the sores are not in traditionally union territory.
Business acumen.
This is where I am coming in. Is this due to the new minimum wage laws?
Actually, this will allow Walmart to regroup and re-employ those who want to work instead of protest. This means getting rid of those who caused the protests, as well as those who participated in it.
Employees need to understand, you don’t protest your employer when you actually have no grievance. I believe Walmart has always paid higher than “minimum wage” .. and if you’re willing to work - and do a good job, you can get good benefits and regular increases in pay.
Probably. But if there had been any sort of unionizing attempt at these stores then we would have heard about it by now.
Our store is a prime candidate for that sort of shenanigans.
“...these properties are going to be used by FEMA to house immigrant children.”
Why not? They’re already stocked with clothes, food, pots/pans/dishes, furniture, widescreens, the latest electronic gizmos, toys...and ammunition.
All types of theories and answers on the same posting as yesterday.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3280232/posts
Wal-Mart suddenly closed 5 stores and laid off thousands of workers and no one knows why
finance.yahoo.com ^ | 4/17/15 | Hayley Peterson
Posted on 4/17/2015, 8:51:24 AM by cotton1706
The closures could last up to six months and affect roughly 2,200 workers in Texas, California, Oklahoma, and Florida, CNN Money reports.
Wal-Mart employees say they were completely blindsided by the news, having been notified only a couple hours before the stores closed at 7 p.m. Monday.
“Everybody just panicked and started crying,” Venanzi Luna, a manager at a store in Pico Rivera, California, told CNN Money.
All workers will receive paid leave for two months. After that, full-time workers could become eligible for severance, according to CNN Money. But part-time workers will be on their own.
Local officials and employees have questioned Wal-Mart’s reasoning for the closures.
According to ABC News, “no plumbing permits have been pulled in any of the five cities where the stores were suddenly closed for at least six months.”
A city official in Pico Rivera confirmed to CBS Los Angeles that the city has not received any permit requests for building repairs.
In Midland, Texas, where another store was closed, a city official told ABC News that his plumbing inspector was turned away when he visited the store and offered to help secure construction permits.
Wal-Mart plumbing technician Codi Bauer, who worked at the now shuttered store in Brandon, Florida, questioned the company’s time frame for the repairs.
“Probably have 2 or more stores so close to each other they end up competing against each other.”
That happened a few years ago. A Walmart was in a city and county run by tax crazy liberals, and the city was heading to bankruptcy.
They had inspectors in every chain store cooking up new fees and fines and taxes.
Walmart closed that store and opened a larger one a few miles away in another city and county that welcomed them.
The good employees got transferred if they wanted to be. The crappy employees are probably still unemployed.
The newer Walmart is doing great, and its new city and county appreciates the sales taxes they are now getting instead of losing them.
Here’s the kicker. It won’t be long before we’ll be longing to just go back to the weird crap that is going on today.
They aren’t gonna accept the Elanor Roosevelt twenties?
Re: ABC
It was the local station in Florida. The news chimps in Midland damn sure didn’t think for themselves. One interesting thing was that the Midland city officialdom offered to help with the permitting process and tha Walmart brass ran them off.
I don’t know where in the state you reside but the Midland Wallyworld was starting pay at $14 an hour. One theory is that they are trying to axe them and hire in the fall at minimum wage. Walmart is a profitless company skirting the edge of bankruptcy after all.
The two Odessa. Two Midland and the Big Spring locations do a hell of a LOT of busines. $$$$$$
I drove to Midland Thursday and looked at the northside store. There were zero contractor vehicles outside.
Too many five fingered discounts?
A known unknown, as Rumsfeld would say.
Or is it the other way around?
Wal-Mart owns the stores. They can do as they wish. Companies are in business to make a profit, NOT provide jobs and benefits for employees. If the union rabble-rousers directly or indirectly caused these stores to be shuttered, the employees buying into their string of lies only have themselves to blame.
I do my weekend shopping early. If you get in and out before 9:00 AM either on Saturday or Sunday, you avoid most of the crowds and chaos. Check out lines are also practically nonexistent.
The union thugs, and their front groups, have been trying to rabble rouse in TX for some time, now. No doubt they’re trying in Tulsa/OK as well.
Good for Wallyworld for putting the kibosh in this. Maybe calling it a plumbing problem is genius, on their part.
So the Midland, Texas northside Walmart, one of the their top locations in the United States; where they were starting pay at $14 an hour because of trouble getting hired hands in the oil patch; where there was no union push is shutting down because of unionizing efforts.
Yeah. Right. You really pegged it there detective.
doesn’t pay to try to unionize a walley world store.
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