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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Some homo’s wanted them to make a cake for their wedding?
My guess it’s a good way to get rid of Union trash that has been causing problems. Good on them!
There is some discussion that these stores were ones where the employees were protesting for higher wages.
“There is a plumbing problem. I flushed my job down the toilet. Turns out the Democrat Party doesn’t have any Liquid Plumber.”
“All workers will receive paid leave for two months. After that, full-time workers could become eligible for severance”
I’d say they should be grateful, walmart coulda said “heres your 2 weeks pay, adios”. And, remember obama implimented the 99 weeks of unemployment.
The Walmart in Kenneth City off the Pinellas Trail was closed about a year ago - I thought the store just wasn’t making enough money, but now I don’t know ...
I doubt they were trying to unionize in Midland Texas. They (the employees)would have been run out of town on a rail.
It’s to retro-fit them to be the prototypes for the new cashless society that’s coming.
Those laid off workers should have no problems finding other jobs, since they were such skilled employees that they were sure they were worth $15/hr.
Those in Midland, TX will be competing with hundreds of laid off oil field workers, so they will have a bit more of a problem.
Three of them are in Texas and Oklahoma and the fourth is in Florida. Not exactly hotbeds of Union support.
The wonderful thing is that, Walmart can do whatever they want with their stores for any reason.... and the don’t really owe anyone an explanation.
There isn’t a way to really tell any more. Regardless, it is their company and they owe nothing to anyone except their investors.
Alien bacteria from China turning shoppers into noodle craving zombies
I thought liberals hated Walmart. Why are they so concerned? You’d think they’d be saying, “Good! I hope they stay closed.”
But no. Instead they are speculating that Walmart refuses to be bullied. Walmart has closed stores when pressure mounted for workers to unionize. They just get rid of all the employees. Walmart knows it business model and its mission. Their success is total focus on low prices for every consumer. They will not deviate on anything that compromises that, ever.
Love them or hate them, you will respect their business acumen. Or you are a business fool.
Underperforming stores near ghettos perhaps?
There is a discussion in the comments section that these properties are going to be used by FEMA to house immigrant children.
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Could be. Happened to me in the late 80s. The company I worked for moved to Fla. from Indiana to escape unions and warned if we tried to unionize they would be gone in 2 years. Some of the workers tried it, I attempted to stop em but nooooo they had to be greedy. 2 years later they were gone just like they said and I DO NOT BLAME THEM ONE BIT.
If layoffs are above a certain number then I think federal law requires 60 days notice/severance. And the 99 weeks are only in states where unemployment is above a certain percentage.
lol. I think I’m infected.
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