Walmart quietly lays off thousands of workers after bonus announcement
Source: Think Progress
Thursday morning, Walmart had a flashy announcement: Thanks to corporate tax cuts, it was giving its employees bonuses of up to $1,000. Walmart and President Trump pointed to the announcement as proof that the corporate tax cuts are really a boon to working-class Americans.
This announcement, as ThinkProgress reported earlier, was much more complicated than it first sounds.
But now it appears the announcement was timed carefully to cover for thousands of unannounced layoffs.
Business Insider reports that today, Walmart is abruptly closing numerous Sam’s Clubs stores across the United States. In some cases “employees were not informed of the closures prior to showing up to work on Thursday” and “learned that their store would be closing when they found the store’s doors locked and a notice announcing the closure.”
Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/walmart-bonus-layoffs-ed187882b011/
So, they're giving bonuses and laying off people to pay for them?
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For the most part, holiday workers are only hired on a temp basis anyway.
The store closures are something different though. Sam's Club stores' days are numbered, I suspect. Everybody at Sam's Clubs will be getting pink slips soon.
I've never shopped in a Sam's Club and I guess I never will.
Walmart still seems to be doing OK for now.
with 6 stores closing, followed by New York with 4. Illinois is the 'bread basket' of the Republican party. 6 stores closing there is going to impact a lot of Republican voters. In Rochester, New York 2 stores in one city are being shuttered.
The horror.........the horror. 
on twitter. I trolled her on it. More folks all over her/others now
passed the cost of it's employees along to the American taxpayer. They hire people on a part-time basis, trying to keep as many as possible under 40 hrs a week, then the families have to get Medicaid to keep them healthy, and many are eligible for Food-stamps, WIC etc. The high cost of low prices.
Try to explain to Trumptards how shopping at Walmart cost many of them their jobs. This happened decades ago, but we're still feeling the fallout from it. They just won't believe it. 
Willfully ignorant.
this is only a one-time event. Although the Walton family will get these tax breaks in perpetuity, their employees will only get a one-time taste (for most, a very small taste) of it. What great employers the Waltons are. 
Like life isn't hard enough. They knew months ago they were closing those stores. They just didn't want to lose employees before the Christmas shopping season. So much better to screw the people who worked for you.
