Apparently Cargill didn’t get Gov. Scott Walker’s message that Wisconsin is “open for business.”
Cargill’s Harvest and Fabrication Operations Plant located in Milwaukee’s Menomonee Valley is closing. This shut down affect 600 Cargill employees.
The company says the closure is due to the shortage of beef caused by droughts. The Harvest and Fabrication Operations Plant will close by August 1, 2014.
In response to Cargill’s announcement of 600 layoffs in Wisconsin in two days, Gov. Walker took to Twitter:
Visited @WIWildwoodPark in Minocqua #WI. They went from 2 employees to 35 – and they are growing! pic.twitter.com/IDGuJkhydW
— Scott Walker (@ScottWalker) July 30, 2014
I am confident none of us takes any satisfaction at this human tragedy for so many Wisconsin families. All I can do is pledge to work to restore a Wisconsin government at all levels which will work to provide jobs and financial security for all.
I am so sad for these 600 families; my thoughts and prayers are with them, especially this evening.
I take no joy in this news, but I do think it just underscores what a miserable failure the policies of Gov. Walker and Republicans in Wisconsin have been.
A matter of semantics, not disagreeing with the resultant damage to the economy for me and you, but Walker and the Republicans and the SUCCESS of Walker’s work to benefit his sponsors puts him on par with Obomba and the rest of the D&R uni-party obedience to and competition to impress those holding the money that we no longer have or will ever have as “citizens,” of the state or the country.
Posted this as a response to Democurmudgeon’s mild touting of the jobs numbers nationally (comments seem delayed for a day or so, suggesting not to wave the pom-poms for Zero too soon. Pay attention to the prelude to the pieces title, “Only the Stupid will be fooled.”
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/08/07/the-new-economy-is-the-no-jobs-economy/
Anybody paying attention to the coal stockpile shortage for LaCrosse WI electrical generation and that of several state regions needing to share that supply when the Mississippi freezes (BNSF Railroad owner, anyone, I’m sure someone will know, higher profits in Balken oil by rail trumping national safety or citizen basic security and needs?) further capital extraction from the normal citizens by setting up price gouging for winter electric rates if we’re forced to purchase power from more distant sources.
Coming (largely here already) to a nation nearer to you than you might grasp at the moment, US yesterday confirmed, ships more weapons to Israel as Kerry et al fail to “diplomatically,” tell Israel to back off of doing to Gaza what the Nazi’s did to them, so the US response is to call for further sanctions on Russia, because what?
Bringing this back to the good old USofA again, because NATO has pushed further east than 1990 treaty language allowed and has attempted to incite Russia into WWIII, because BNSF shipped dilbit is destined for their desparately coveted western EU markets that are buying Russian gas at the moment and western oligarchs fear BRICS ties and world energy trading that is not done in US dollars.
Thursday Music, thanks for the opportunity to speak Zach, front-page this comment if you wish. And they Call It Democracy.
Correction — eastern EU — not western, sorry.
First cuppa coffee, I also forgot to tie my first comment back to the diary, so for the totally clue-less, less beef and severe drought has nothing to do with human induced climate change based upon rampant carbon extraction and burning, apparently to be allowed until there is no oxygen left for combustion. /s
Cargill’s privately held by the family. They own 85% of the stock.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargill
The timing suggest to me a big F you to Gov. Walker for daring to take a more populist position on “Made in America.” If anyone’s buying that speculation, and that’s all it is; it’s more evidence of how comfortable the oligarchs are with Gov. Burke.
Per wikipedia “Cargill, Incorporated, is an American privately held, multinational corporation …. Founded in 1865, it is now the largest privately held corporation in the United States in terms of revenue.[2] If it were a public company, it would rank, as of 2013, number 9 on the Fortune 500, behind Valero Energy and ahead of Ford Motor Company.”
http://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolomon/2011/09/22/the-secretive-cargill-billionaires-and-their-family-tree/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_R._Cargill_II
My thoughts are with all the families affected by this.
It is crazy 1st Plainsveiws now Milwaukee.
We are feeling it up here in Canada too, Cargill just had us working short weeks. Who would have ever thought that Cargill could harvest faster than mother nature could reproduce ?