'It was like a public execution': American retail workers face mass layoffs
You of course have a massive shutdown. US car companies deciding to no longer make cars. Brick and mortar stores like Sears closing. Real wages continue to remain flat. Yet, the Trump administration continues to publish record low unemployment rates.
How does that work? If companies are really having that much difficulty filling positions, how can it be so difficult for workers to simply lateral over to a new, high paying job if unemployment rates really are so low?
Next thing you know, we are going to be asked doubt Trump's crowd numbers or DHS reports of massive invasion from Mexico.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/it-was-like-a-public-execution-american-retail-workers-face-mass-layoffs/ar-BBSFbrS?li=BBnb7Kz
When Emmett Foster started working at the Amazon clothing plant in Norristown, Pennsylvania, last September as a contracted employee, he was under the impression that as long as he received his certifications for T-shirt printing and quality control, he would be kept on as a permanent employee after the holiday season.
“We knew the day was coming when they would make their cuts. The majority of the staff was seasonal. Those of us who had our certifications assumed just the seasonal people would get cut,” Foster said. He commuted from Philadelphia to Norristown four days a week for the job and had resigned another full-time position to take it.
But last week, Foster and dozens of other seasonal and contracted employees at the Amazon clothing plant were laid off along with thousands of other workers at retailers across the U.S. Retailers have just had their best holiday season in six years but for retail workers the post-holiday come down has been brutal.
“They made an announcement we would all take our breaks at the same time. No one thought anything of it,” said Foster. He explained a manager read off a list of names publicly to announce the mass layoffs. “It was a public execution.”
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It's that they don't want to fill full time positions. Kind of like the way a jockey dangles a carrot in front of a horse. Full time salaried employees with benefits are bad for the bottom line, yo. 
