This whole thing is just bizarre. I can’t imagine the one in Midland, Texas, or the Oklahoma ore being closed for union difficulties. Were any of the stores closed as sacrificial lambs or as warning to other employees in other locations? This entire thing just goes in the same bag as the disappearing airliner.
Why not? How do you know union petitions weren't being circulated? My educated guess is that they were.
What...there are libtards in Midland or Oklahoma that work at Wally World...?
Many years ago we had a sewing plant and they voted to unionize here in our small town. Yep, they closed the plant.
It happened in the mines around here too. So many good jobs lost. The mines were dealing with environmentalists, fed/gov, low prices and greedy unions so they just closed down for many years.
Could be an experiment. These are all long-established stores, probably with employees that have been around for a while and have worked their way to a point above the $9 rate Walmart is starting people out at. So close the store, dump the staff, replace them in 6 months with cheaper people, and reopen the store. Walmart isn't going to take a hit in sales because all these places have other stores near by. If this works then you could see an epidemic of plumbing problems.