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WalMart's Mysterious Store Closure Devastates California City
Earlier this month, we brought you the short history of worker protests at the Pico Rivera, CA Wal-Mart location. The store has been at the forefront of pickets, walkouts, and sit-ins for some time, with workers staging demonstrations every year since 2012, the latest of which came in November of last year and resulted in the arrest of two dozen workers. The employees — whose grievances generally revolve around wages, working conditions, and retaliation — have been supported by The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union or, UFCW, which last year prevailed in a Canadian Supreme Court case against the retailer stemming from a decade-old incident in Quebec when Wal-Mart closed a location after workers voted for UFCW representation.
Given the store’s history, one can hardly be blamed for wondering if Wal-Mart’s recent decision to close the location for “plumbing issues” was in fact an excuse to shutter a "problem" store. The plight of the Pico Rivera location is of course part of a larger story wherein Wal-Mart — in what we have suggested is an attempt to cut costs — has closed multiple stores nationwide (laying off some 2,200 employees in the process) to fix what the company says are “clogs and leaks.” The absence of plumbing permits, the company’s express desire to rein in costs on the back of an across-the-board wage hike, and the history of the Pico Rivera location led us to suggest that factors unrelated to pipes and drains may be at play.
Sure enough, just days after our Pico Rivera story ran, the UFCW filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations board alleging that the California store was closed to punish employees for worker activism.
In the latest from Pico Rivera, the city now says the company’s decision to close the location could have a decisively deleterious effect on tax revenue, 10% of which came from the local Wal-Mart. Here’s more via LA Times:
"It's a severe blow to our community, certainly, with the local economy, the homes and families, in terms of those people that were counting on those paychecks," mayor Gregory Salcido said.
With 530 workers, the Wal-Mart store is the city's second-biggest employer, topped only by the El Rancho Unified School District. Pico Rivera's nearly 64,000 residents have a median household income of almost $57,000, about average for the county.
Salcido estimated that Pico Rivera receives about $1.4 million a year in tax revenue from the retailer, potentially 10% of the city's sales tax revenue. City officials, he said, are trying to figure out how to deal with the lost revenue if the store remains closed for at least six months, as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has announced…
The Wal-Mart was built on the grounds of two prior Pico Rivera employment giants…
The city then helped develop a portion of the site into the Pico Rivera Towne Center, a 630,000-square-foot open-air shopping center.
When Wal-Mart arrived, the low prices were an immediate hit in the largely Latino town. It was open 24 hours; the aisles were often jammed.
The store was renovated in 2007 to become a Wal-Mart Supercenter that sold groceries and underwent further remodeling in 2014 (ZH: hold this thought)
Jenny Mills, a nine-year Pico Rivera Wal-Mart employee, lives in her car with her husband and their cat in the parking lot of her former store. The couple lost their apartment in Monterey Park about a year ago when the rent was raised and they couldn't make payments.
She's now part of the National Labor Relations Board filing and said she hopes to get her job back.
The Pico Rivera Towne Center has become an "economic engine" for the city in terms of retail, Salcido said. Other tenants in the center include Lowe's, Marshalls, PetSmart and Panera Bread.
But the loss of the Wal-Mart store, even temporarily, Salcido said, "is significant, no doubt about it."
Meanwhile, the LA Times also notes that the Pico Rivera location underwent a half-million dollar refurbishment last year that included some of the very same plumbing issues (see embedded document below) cited in the closure of the store this year, which begs two rather obvious questions: 1) why weren't the problems fixed during the refurbishment and 2) why was WalMart able to complete last year's plumbing work without closing the doors?
For reference, here is the complaint sent to the Labor Relations Board:
Dear Regional Director:
Enclosed is a Charge we are filing on behalf of OUR Walmart.
This charge arises out of the well-publicized decision by Walmart to suddenly close five stores on the pretext of a "plumbing"problem in each of the stores. Walmart's action was intended to target the Pico Rivera store, which has been the focal point of activity by Associates for better working conditions.
This case warrants immediate relief under Section1Q(j). Approximately 2200 Walmart Associates around the country have been thrown out of their jobs. Although Walmart has offered WARN Act payments, the employees are being asked to sign severance agreements in order to receive additional severance pay.
Thus, Walmart is attempting to weed out many of the activists in the Pico Rivera store as well as the other stores who are subject to this sudden and wholly unexplained "closure" because of unexplained "plumbing problems."
We are prepared to present a number of workers immediately to the Region who worked in the Pico Rivera store. They will describe the activity which has gone on in that store and elsewhere since at least 2012.
The Region is already familiar with much of this because of Case 21-CA-10541, as well as other consolidated cases which are pending in various Regions or before various Administrative Law Judges.
Please assign this immediately to a Board Agent who can begin taking statements in the next day or so.
We will be presenting additional evidence in support of this.
We expect that Walmart will come up with some pretextual argument that there was a "plumbing problem." No one in the City Administration of Pico Rivera was aware of any plumbing problem. No permits have been pulled or sought. This, in fact, is true of all five of the stores as far as we can tell.
And here is the permit for last year's refurbishments:
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Payback is a bitch these days.
What, a for profit global corporation has a monopoly and is fucking someone, Nooooo, it can't be!
fuck that. fuck the losers who work at walmart, and fuck the UFCW, and fuck the NLRB.
walmart has the right to close their own store. period.
i have no love for walmart, but if a company doesn't even have the right to close its own store, this worthless excuse of a country is even farther down the drain than most people ever realized.
If a company doesn't have a right to close their own store, you're France, with 25% real unemployment because no one can afford to open a plant or a store there.
No problem:
They can open a Chipotle and TWO Starbucks in its place.
I'm sure those former Walmart shoppers would rather buy $5.00 latte's and $8.00 non-GMO burritos anyway...
In fact, why not an Apple Store? Think of all the Apple Watches they'd sell at $10,000 a pop to all those welfare recipients... Bling City!!!
No cosa grande amigos.. just raise property taxes.
Fucking faggot Tyler and the rich want to set up a gold standard to rape you even harder. Why do you think this website will never tell you about 9/11? Why is it ZeroHedge will never tell you what a local currency would do to the bankers? Or the inflation caused by fractional reserve lending, which is 10 times more money printing than the Federal Reserve does?
Most of you slaves are too far gone for this to compute. You desire your own repression. It's not complicated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDtBSiI13fE
"Money, the life-blood of the nation,
Corrupts and stagnates in the veins,
Unless a proper circulation
Its motion and its heat maintains"
-long dead old Irish guy
Fuck the unions... Walmart has zero responsibility to these whiners to keep this store open, regardless of the reason... Involving the unions and NLRB to fight Walmart drove the final nail in any hope this store will be re-opened... Hope these bitches know where to get their EBT cards and Obamaphones, because Walmart is thumbing their nose at your dumb asses...
Unions have nothing to do with these store closings.
I wish I could "file a compliant" with someone ... or "sue" someone. But my Father just laughs and tells me go back down into the basement and be quiet.
Quick! Open a WinCo! There has got to be opportunity!
This is what happens when you let one store dominate your retail industry. The city planners should have known better and made sure there was competition from mom and pop stores by not letting walshit into their hoods.
Wrong answer. Presumes that bureacrats can think beyond their own dicks. It ain't their fault. With millions of shoppers, Walmart is what the people want.
How do you ensure competition, with central planners whose only talent lies in being bought by the deepest pockets? Why do we need Central planners in the first place?
-
"Why do we need Central planners in the first place?"
...because you simply have no choice...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wiRhVzsXFM
I love you guys slamming unions - they are nothing but a collection of manpower - negotiated as a block. There is no mandate to hire any of them, here hire whoever you like. Corporations are nothing than a collection of manpower and resources. If the unions had half a brain they would dissolve and reform as limited companies with each member an equal owner.
In my area the companies have tried for years to 'get rid of the unions' - so they did they brought in super-low wage workers. And those same super-low wage workers were the ones binged out on crack, fucking shit up all over the place, not showing up (why should they - they are paid dirt) and not caring if anything got done. They had to fly janitors all the way across the country just to get them.
So they played around with the low wage contractors who had a severe shortage of staff. The only staff that was consistently 'showing up' were the ones that needed a constant supply of crack. And nothing was getting built, the job could not get manned. If they tried to bring in drug testing it would of wipe the contractor out so that would not work either.
After a couple years of dabbling around and realizing their project would have a timeline completion of 2030 they threw in the towel brought in a couple union contractors who paid enough to get good people and could get lots of them and their project was built.
Yeah, you union folks are top notch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX7KlUgdCDk
I'm sure the quality goes up after the lunch break.
A store was closed in NE Tulsa, OK. It was not a union store, it was not located near a military base, it is not being used to cover an elitist dumb bunker. It was closed on the pretense of "plumbing", but it also had one of the highest theft rates of any WalMart in the USA.
So, please consider the above facts before creating a one size fits all conspiracy theory.
Walmart is what the people crave. It has electolytes!
Shit, based on your theory, the closing is excellent. Now those Mom and Pops will finally have the opportunity to open up shop and replace all those Wal-Mart jobs at twice the wages and with full benefits!!! Happy days!!!
I'll go out on a limb and say that it's likely this was a store plagued by employee and customer theft... WMT closed a store near me for that reason about 15 years ago and opened a new superWMT in a better location less served by bus lines ,, public transport ALWAYS brings trouble to retailers.
Absolutely, same happened near my neck of the woods. And if you can eliminate a union in the same stroke, two birds - one stone...
The question isn't if they are allowed to close their own stores, but WHY? The "plumbing" excuse is clearly BS. The Midland TX store was the highest grossing per capita. Larry Grathwohl infiltrated the Weather Underground back in the hippie days. His video is a must see. They spoke of re-education camps and eliminating 25 million "who won't let go of capitalism". They got Barry, with help from the hidden hand of course, into the White House. Nah, it's just plumbing issues....
Huh? Is Walmart hoarding gold? I must have missed the news.
Posting your stuff once in a related thread might have been thought-provoking.
Posting it everywhere in a gigantic copy-pasta threadjack just reveals you for the troll you are.
Posted in wrong place :( Sorry
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-02-03/meet-british-armys-77th-battali...
Same diatribe from two days ago, word for word.
Are you a bot or just a really stoopid 5 week old troll?
These topics have been covered here for years.
prop 13 bitches, can't "just raise property taxes"
deNille isn't just a river in Egypt
Fucking faggot Tyler and the rich want to set up a gold standard to rape you even harder. Why do you think this website will never tell you about 9/11? Why is it ZeroHedge will never tell you what a local currency would do to the bankers? Or the inflation caused by fractional reserve lending, which is 10 times more money printing than the Federal Reserve does?
Most of you slaves are too far gone for this to compute. You desire your own repression. It's not complicated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDtBSiI13fE
Pete and Repeat were in a boat...
Pete jumped out. Who was left?
In the setup, you didn't tell us that Who was a passenger in the boat. If only Who was left, what happened to Repeat??
Stfu douche
@green sheen All of 5 weeks and 3 days huh?
Is that your age?
You fuckin' moron.
"Those who know not, and know not that they know not; they are fools shun them"
Anonymity seems to bring on boldness in the non compos mentis. Sadly, reticence and shame are never concurrently evoked.
Miffed
FYI : I have never ran into anything censored on this website - except of course if someone posted classified information. Post whatever you like this place is amazingly troll and million-dollar-baby compliant, and even lets the 'I'm making $7,000 a week pimping my mom' types post away.
No censoring??? How often do you come around? If you get too close to the truth about the Tribe, youse get booted.
Haven't you noticed that some of the best and brightest that used to engage in excellent debates are gone?
cheeze!!!
pope
Obama gonna buy me an apple watch and a house.
What would Dirty Harry say, punk?
He'd say:
" A protestor's got to know his limitations".
Do you feel lucky, punk?
He'd say:
"Too many assholes & not enough bulllets."
Yo, Apocalicious, doochetard, you may wish to study BLS stats and numbers and definitions a bit more closely before slinging all the bullcrap: the difference between many a Euro country and the USA, is that the USA never tells the truth on the unemployment numbers.
http://wallstreetonparade.com/2015/04/why-the-fed-will-crash-the-economy-if-it-hikes-rates-in-three-charts/
And you think other countries do?
There is 25% real unemployment already ace.
The real unemployment is actually at 25% right now, and that's US..not France.
Seems like that's where we're at and people don't seem to realize it.
If I have $100 to spend on employees per hour and I can hire 10 people at $10 / hr and the .gov comes in and says I have to pay $15, well all of a sudden I have to let go of four of those by law because I can't afford more than $100 / hr total pay.
Same goes for employee issues. If I have a problem store where all I get are complaints about conditions and pay then sometimes it's just easier to close the damn thing and be done with it. But if I want to do that apparently I have to give a 60 day notice unless there are unusual circumstances.
If you own a store and employ people you're screwed because you've just lost control of the facility. You almost can't fire people, and you can't shut it down on the spot if you need to.
For some reason people think that increasing wages doesn't impact how many people a person can hire.
It's almost like they don't recognize that the money has to come from somewhere...it doesn't magically appear...that is unless you're the FED.
"For some reason people think that increasing wages doesn't impact how many people a person can hire."
Does that work at the top end of the scale too?
I mean, if the top managemnent make several million less, can't they afford to hire more drones?
What you say is true, but it's usually not that simple. I wonder how much in local tax breaks Walmart had wrangled out of Poco Rivera. For all the hand-wringing about local taxes, a surprising number of these big-boxes don't actually pay them. At that point there are at least implied obligations to the locals, which the corporates invariably renege on at some point. TIFs etc. are almost always a losing proposition.
A closed store gives the local government no sales tax.
Closing store in order to build one in downtown Baltimore
Quit frick'n rioting and open your own store. But, NNNOOOooooooo.... Somebody else has to risk their capital to open a store where you can work/shop - even if by force of government. Get the hell out of what's left of this free market capitalist country and move to somewhere safe for you like Cuba - where everyone is equally dirt poor (except the government people running the paradise into the ground).
Losers.
Cuba? Sounds like 'Merickhuh ta' me!
Y'all just wait until Hillary "reshuffles the deck" as she put it.
But what the fuck real difference does it make anymore, anyway? The leeches sucking the very material, physical, mental and spiritual essence out of the slave class neo-feudal peasantry simply continues until the liquids are drained, the meat consumed and the skulls fucked for dessert.
Damn...
Now I'm hungry.
Now we know what they do at Yale with Geronimo's skull...
This is a crony capitalist country, CAC. As such little people aren't allowed to open stores and businesses that compete with the vested interests. If they try they will soon find they have all sorts of government problems. Expensive problems. These various code violations, code requirements, licenses, inspections, and much much more will soon eat up all available capital and the business will collapse. That's how it works in this country. This is why when a big company dies there is nothing to replace it and nothing comes along to replace it. There's no feasible way to do it that doesn't have a near 100% chance of failure. The deck is stacked and most people don't want to play a game that is that rigged.
Sure and you know what happens - people leave that region (aka California) and they move to a different area of the country where they have a chance to survive. So the only people that remain are the crony capitalists, the drug dealers, and the welfare recipients, and people who still have a job at some government bueracracy. So the budget deficits climb to the moon until finally the city runs out of money, and eventually you are left with a crater like Detroit.
Hear hear!
The workers have a right to act as one group too, if they choose.
We all have rights.
Walmatch can buy machines to replace cashiers, if they choose.
I'll shop at Costco.
Costco has self-checkout as well.
You're hurting his fantasy that he makes a difference.
Costco tried it in South Idaho and got rid of it. Not effective for their volume.
Like it or do not like it corporations will seek efficiencies. If we want to get *really* efficient do away with the walmart's and costco's all together. Order what you need direct from the supplier, and do not even use aggregation peddlers like Amazon who think they can take 35% cut on a book sale and force the publisher to accept lower prices below the list.
Grow your own food, buy local for cash, and cut the federal reserve out - it makes the international bankers powerless over your community.
Employers don't have rights. They have obligations.
Edit: (my remarks are directed at Mr. Stacking above)......You are an idiot. Period, End of limited intelligence discussion.
When you lose your job do not come screaming unfair anywhere near me. Because it will happen.
Thanks for saying that. Its shocking to read some of the things posted here.
What is shocking is the comprehension level of some people on this site despite the fact that they were interested enough to even find it and read it in the first place.
Free market. What part do you not get? Stacking never said Walmart should get subsidies. Stacking never said people should get subsidies. Take away the subsidies from both and Walmart would NOT be the behemoth it is and it would NOT be screwing its employees. Instead you cry about how shocking comments are. You don't even realize you are paying for the whole thing through big government on both ends - the corporation and the consumers. Wake the hell up and smell the real reality.
NO EDIT. When Mr. Stacking and cheerleaders champion thinly disguised machinations by Walmart or any other multinational ask exactly why? These TPP and other NAFTA type agreements ushered in the era of corporate control. Beyond any scrutiny or rule of national policy.
Greed is the ruler. So Mr. Stacking. Yes it is true that a store can close it's doors. Walmart has proved that through years of forcing out competing retailers. By outsourcing jobs. Hiding profits, Avoiding any social responsibility by manipulating worker's hours and wages to try to mimic the captive worker class they use elsewhere in the world.
Walmart is no more an American icon of anything of value. When your own employees live in a car outside your store? And need to access welfare to feed themselves I guess you have a captive slave market. And to boot one that needs to spend their supplemental welfare food money at your very own store.
Kinda like the old definition of a "company town". Captured slavery without the cost of upkeep.
My limited understanding of the old model of slavery was to hold human beings and their labour captive and accountable. But the rub of that was you, as slave owner, needed to ensure they actually lived and bred more "hands" to abuse.
Now slavery comes by way of wages, offshoring, worship of greed,,,,,but here is that rub.....NOW the slave owners no longer need to feed, clothe or house you. As there are millions more waiting at the gates who will die for the chance.
So not only is the middle class being murdered financially and spiritually BUT all classes below elite are being ushered into a state of poverty with no recourse.
And Mr. Stacking....unless you are one of the in-club your days, your families days are numbered.
hey, idiotwarner:
it already did happen.
i lost my job 14 years ago. i didn't complain at anyone that it was "unfair", i took it like a man. a foreign concept to you, i know.
you know what i did? i went into business for myself, grew a company, now i have 9 employees.
so, now that you realize you have no clue what you're talking about, stfu.
"walmart has the right to close their own store. period."
Damnit, that's right, and the Banksters have the right to solely create and control the money!
Abso-fucking-lutely, douchey!
And if the super-rich want to kidnap you to use you in a live organ transplant down at Davy Rockefeller's clinic in Chile (the Josef Mengele Clinic) or over in China (too many clinics to name here), they they have the right to that as well.
Effing A, douchey!
Forced organ harvesting for the Super-Rich!
Hip. . . hip. . . hooray, douchetards!
You have the right not to shop there. That's it.
Protestors have rights too... (Freedom is a real right... :)
SGT Doom.
Please get up to speed. Please we are now looking at head transplants. Organs are so 2000. We now harvest healthy bodies my dear.
Strawman much.
WTF do you get off making up things like that? Your trainers need to do a better job.
walmart has the right to close their own store. period.
I agree with the principle here but the only problem in Whalemart's case is when they opened the store in the 1st place a bunch of small businesses in that area got squeezed out (do I have specific proof of this for Pico? No, but the case histories of this happening are extensive). Do you think the the SBE's will be coming back just because "China R Us" is closing? Double whammy for jobs in that area . . . . .
P.S. Fucking A, it's really fucking fucked up when fucking fuckers use the fucking word "fuck" every other fucking word in the fucking sentences in their fucking posts . . . .
Who voted for the government that allowed an outside corporation to come in and drive out the local small businesses? The people got what they voted for. Nothing more, nothing less.
Voting does have consequences.
It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
Joseph Stalin
Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/josephstal109571.html#6UEZ3BC...
For voting to have consequences, one's votes would actually have to matter. You still think voting matters, eh? How quaint.
I'm sure the city gave walmart financial incentives to open that store originally. so they screw everyone
Everyone hated on WalMart until it closed and LOOKY HERE! Wal Mart was responsible for a WHOPPING TEN PERCENT of the tax revenue.
Too late now, agitators!
Growlers have grown in size in the last year. It is an outgrowth of GMOs, literally.
Here, Here!
Fuck those terds. The tail don't get to wag the dog and the aisle jockies don't get to set policy. Serves them right for causing trouble for their employer. If I were your boss and you were outside my shop protesting, I would want to fire you, too. If Walmart wants to shut down, that's their choice. The NLRB and the govt got no right to tell a company what to do. Remember when Boeing wanted to move to SC and the unions and govt fought tooth and nail to stop them? Fuck that shit. And fuck that town for acting like Walmart is their for them like some permanent bottomless ATM. And fuck Walmart and all the other businesses who try to bend communities over the barrel demanding sweetheart tax deals in exchange for deining to open a shop in their town. Makes me sick every time I see my town or some other town selling out and giving some corporation a massive plot of land and utilities tax-free for a decade, or two.
It's "Hear, hear".
These "Latinos" should just claim to be ghey. Then Walmart will gladly cave for some butt-lover love.
Dear Sheeple,
We are a corporation so fuck laws, fuck employees, fuck customers, fuck fairness.
love
Walmat, BofA, Goldman,MIC etc
I just want to know when the fuck did ZH become Zuccotti Park??
When we planted some trees in your ass.
Productive ppl would plant trees.... you douche nozzles just camp out under them...
My ass and your face?
Is it because the plumbing work was done by white union stooges rather than Mexican day laborers?
I almost shed a tear...
Was planning a raid next week. My men needed some more "provisions"...
The 2 cities in CA with the highest sales tax rate are Pico Rivera and South Gate ....9.75 %
..... yeah, now you got me crying .
Maybe Pico can qualify for some ObamaBucks now that they have been so egregiously treated by Walmart.
Oh, the injustice!!
It's gonna take a mass mobilization to get the Crips & Bloods over there (from Baltimore) to protest this outrage.
The mysterious WalMart shit hits the "cheap-made-in-China" fan. ;-)
Looney
Maybe Uncle Warren will be kind enough to give the Baltimore mob a hop on BN to help bring this drama to the front page.
Maybe Pico can qualify for some ObamaBucks now that they have been so egregiously treated by Walmart.
Good News! All the Pico Whalemart (ex)employees now qualify for Obamaphones!
Come to Canada. In Ontario it is 13%!!
No thank you. Too many taxes. GST, PST, HST, VAT taxes. OOOffff.
Isn't healthcare cost included in that?
Free healthcare is the excuse for the much higher income tax rate. The higher sales tax rate is to cover .... something else.
Is that what you call it? Try getting an important surgery done up there...get in line bub!
I am sure there are private for profit surgery options. Most American hospitals would welcome them as well, with cash or good credit, same as Merica. I don't follow that "wait in line for your life". Scare tactic against reasonable medical reform, you can always pay cash.
So, paying cash for healthcare is unfair to the poor and disenfranchised minorities, the government enacts new taxes, regulations and other controls in order to provide "free" healthcare (is a right dontya know) and when the logical lack of services/ quality causes long lines and poor availability the answer is to STFU and pay cash for healthcare.?
Yeah. Cost of healthcare in Canada is nothing compared to US. Most employers cover the cost. But if an individual had to pay? I think my province for a family of 4 is capped at less than 200.00/month. (I did not run these numbers as I have quoted them before here. My family premiums plus drug/dental has been covered for 30 years...)
But I do know. Cost of any cancer treatment, knee replacement, eye surgery, diabetes?....healthhcare will be covered under our Canadian plan. It will not take every dime I own. And premiums are not in the $thousands for something I may actually be denied.
That's great. What if you don't want to play, pay? Oh right, not free at all.
My family income right now (cause I am doing the books) is roughly 23% and that does not capture the tax I pay on purchases in the form of sales tax, Fuel, etc. hard goods. So add in another 5% on just about everything beyond food.
Cry me a river that Walmart's crooked bookeeping does not manage to evade 9%. Maybe they should talk to the Clinton Foundation and get some hints.
< -- Eddie from National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
< -- Doug McMillon, CEO of Walmart
said this - "Shitter was full"
I call bs on the taxes because Walmart never pays them, they just move.
Correct. Usually when they bend over the city council to establish the store based on false promises of revenue tax stream the City eats the turd lock, stock and barrell.
Fast forward a few years when WalMart has literally destroyed whatever small business tax base you had and whatever social cohesion might have gone with it.
Fast forward again to the WalMart closing utterly devastating your one and only revenue stream while you and the rest of the city council stand there with your dicks in your hand wondering WTF will we do now.
City councils and other politicians spend tax money before it even comes in. Evil greedy fux like Wal Mart.
Let Costco, KMart or Target come into Pico Rivera and open a store. At 10.75% in sale tax and probably endless other bull shit - Pico Rivera turns into a more Mexican version of Detroit.
And seriously - F WMT, F unions, F city councils, F union oragnizers, F most WMT employees and F fat WMT shoppers many on EBT cards.
F them all.
Tylers, please read this:
http://bangordailynews.com/2014/06/06/business/maine-communities-saying-...
Watch poor walmart say the pipes are broken in all 22 stores in Maine.
Tylers, please read this:
http://bangordailynews.com/2014/06/06/business/maine-communities-saying-...
Finally, two intelligent commenters on this thread!
Amen. . .
and of course there's walmart setting up systems in house to help emplyees (because they qualify) apply for and take even more public funds and services
Did you forget about sales tax from the largest retailer in the city?
Are these the same Watergate plumbers ......?
Hahahaha... The Governments concern about "worker rights" when they are stripping those same "workers" every day of their Civil Rights. FUCK THE GOVERNMENT AND THEIR PHONEY BALONEY CONCERN.
Now the workers have plenty of time... to protest their $15.00 hour min wages...
I agree. I guess in their minds no wages are better than what they consider sub-standard wages.
serreal1...by that arguement a fiat based fed controlled gov is better than no government? right? i dont think it works that way...
And by your argument, a completely inaccurate analogy is better than no analogy.
I logged in just to give you a +1.
and somebody gave you a -1 for your trouble. Gotta love passive-aggressive ZHers.
passive-aggressive ZHers . . . . .
"I'm a teepee, I'm a wigwam, I'm a teepee, I'm a wigwam, I'm a teepee, I'm a wigwam . . ."
"You're too tense . . ."
"It's better to be thought [of as] a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt" . . . . . . Abe (the Tyrant) Lincoln
My whole point is that if you are unhappy with the wage you make at your job, get some skills and/or work harder to get promoted or get a different/better paying job. Don't sit around and bitch about your job then complain when the company eliminates it for you. I'm sorry my analogy was too hard for you to follow.
Effing A, douchey! After all, there are all those jobs they offshored to China, Vietnam, Bangladesh, etc., and I'm sure they would pay to fly your pathetic and worthless ass over there for an interview and so you can check out the housing market there.
Wonder if they would actually allow you to work there at what was advertsied?
Perhaps you could be the next plasticized dead body in the Chinese Bodies Exhibition?
How many skilled workers are there at Walmart? Zero. Manual labor is a commodity and always has been. Supply outstrips demand. Anyway, these same azzholes and their parents voted for the global economy.
You are the type that blames government (they/them) and then wants more government to fix the problems they created. Simply put, wow.
they can have a 6 month reunion camp out in the parking lot, walmart can sponsore port-a-potties.
So sad.
Once our government actually takes title to all businesses in America, we can be assured of job security. Until then, businesses will have the right to be open for business or closed.
Just wait until all of these fast food protestors find out their jobs have been replaced by automation, or just simply replaced.
A good plumber will tell you that shit flows downhill......
...... and pay day is friday.
Actually, friday, first of may is our communist holliday. It’s when the russians wanted to take Berlin because that day goals are met.
...and every asshole is a potential customer.
She head to the head to give some head . . . .
...and a flush beats a full house
And keep your mouth shut and don't chew your fingernails
Politicians are uphill.
A good plumber is rated #1 when it comes to #2.
Nothing mysterious about it, the SEIU Mexican mafia Democratic party hates Walmart and their non-union mafia policy.
Union thugs sabotaged the plumbing systems in targeted stores to force a unionization, Walmart respondedwith closures.
My guess is Walmart won't be opening any stores in Latino Sociaist klepto-cities like PicoRivera anymore in the near future.
+100 SEIU is the scum of the earth. Illegal alien union. Marxist to the core.
This reminds me of old Eastern Airlines. the machinst union in Miami were the biggest scum. They eventually killed Eastern. The idiots were picketing outside Miami airport back side where Eastern had been - 8 years after the airline was dead.
Union thugs sabotaged the plumbing systems in targeted stores to force a unionization, Walmart respondedwith closures.
Not sure if you have a source for this info, if you made it up or are being sarcastic but when you think about it it sure makes sense, especially given the stores in question that all had the same "plumbing problems". Whatever the case, the real issue with Whalemart in those locations is closing non-performing (in one way or another) stores, not "Jade Helm" (my God, Jade Helmers, get a grip!!!).
Lesson learned. Any city/muni that is considering bringing Walmart in and/or providing any incentives or development cost shares should reconsider. Although there probably aren;t any left at this point.
Alternatively Pico Rivera could add WMT to a list of banned retailers and begin the long slow process to rebuild their city centre retail.
Well, why doesn't the UFCW rally the troops and open up their own store and pay super duper awesome union wages with full pensions for everybody?
What else have they got to do with their pension plan?
Spend it on chewing gum?