ALP has covered the unionization and closing of the Jonquiere store. As our last entry, we link to an NPR story with the following caption on a photograph:
Jean Tremblay serves as the mayor overseeing Jonquiere. "We don�t like Wal-Mart anymore," he says.H/T: Brian St. Pierre
UPDATE Can Wal-Mart be blamed for destroying jobs when it opens stores AND when it closes them? Wake-Up Wal-Mart thinks so, but I don't, and said so in their comments:
If you're saying that by closing a store, Wal-Mart eliminates as many jobs as it has people working in the stores, then when Wal-Mart opens a store and hires 250 people, it must be creating 250 jobs.This logic runs counter to much of the anti-WM argument that all Wal-Mart does when opening a new store is substitute lower-paying jobs for higher-paying jobs.
If this latter argument is true, won't the recently fired people eventually find higher-paying work? Isn't WM making them better off in the long run?
Just asking.
Posted by Kevin on May, 4 2005 at 02:28 PM
