Tuesday, June 19, 2012

The Walker Budget Keeps On Working! Part XCV

Businesses in Wisconsin keep packing up and moving to greener pastures, leaving their employees behind, trying to figure out what to do to keep a roof over their head and food on their plates.  This time it's Joerns Healthcare in Stevens Point:
Carl Dyb and about 25 of his fellow employees saw their last day June 4 at Joerns Healthcare in response to a layoff.

That started the first round of layoffs -- 146 employees in all -- to continue through the summer at the Stevens Point facility that is closing and moving operations elsewhere.

The company announced it was shuttering the plant in January, the latest in plant closing across central Wisconsin in such places at Colligan's Bakery in Stevens Point, NewPage mill in Whiting and SNE Enterprises in Mosinee.
But the article goes on to say that local leaders see positive signs and even claim to have new jobs opening all the time.

Great news, right?

It is, only if you ignore the fact that the new jobs created is still far, far less than the jobs lost.

And the jobs that are being created and found are paying a lot less than the jobs we are losing.

This is how the corporate overlords plan on keeping us in line and unable to raise funds to fight back.

Seems to be that in most rebellions throughout history, the oppressed people that rose up to overthrow their maleficent governments weren't well off financially either.

1 comment:

  1. Say, capper. Why don't you run for office?
    SuzyMetta4

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