Post by pavel on Jan 24, 2016 3:31:32 GMT -6
City of sighs, Raymondville faces financial woes amid layoffs
RAYMONDVILLE — When April Torres has her baby, she and her boyfriend won’t have their jobs at Walmart.
On Friday, Walmart will close its Raymondville store, laying off Torres, her boyfriend Efrain Coronado and about 110 other employees.
“Everyone is devastated,” Torres, who’s seven months pregnant, said as she had lunch at Las Mañanitas restaurant in Raymondville.
For more than a year, she’s been making $9 an hour as a cashier, working nearly 40 hours a week to pay her rent and make her car payment.
Read more: www.brownsvilleherald.com/news/valley/article_f76a3f3e-c23a-11e5-8365-37c3742e1677.html
Last year a private prison holding 2,800 inmates was closed after a prison riot. The layoffs at Walmart add to the carnage.
RAYMONDVILLE — When April Torres has her baby, she and her boyfriend won’t have their jobs at Walmart.
On Friday, Walmart will close its Raymondville store, laying off Torres, her boyfriend Efrain Coronado and about 110 other employees.
“Everyone is devastated,” Torres, who’s seven months pregnant, said as she had lunch at Las Mañanitas restaurant in Raymondville.
For more than a year, she’s been making $9 an hour as a cashier, working nearly 40 hours a week to pay her rent and make her car payment.
Read more: www.brownsvilleherald.com/news/valley/article_f76a3f3e-c23a-11e5-8365-37c3742e1677.html
Last year a private prison holding 2,800 inmates was closed after a prison riot. The layoffs at Walmart add to the carnage.