Poor Gov. Sam Brownback: Even Amazon’s Good News in Johnson County Draws Scorn
Something else that our political class needs to fix: churn and burn tactics for warehouses and call centers. Once the wages for existing locations get too high, the warehouse or call center operator (usually a vendor,) shuts it down and lays everyone off only to build another site in a new location where they can bring in new workers at bottom dollar.
However, Twitter and Facebook posters immediately weighed in with less-than-upbeat reviews. Why? Because Amazon in 2014 announced it would close its Coffeyville plant which — coincidentally — once employed about 1,000 people.
Given Brownback’s inept leadership of Kansas government and his reckless tax cuts, he didn’t catch a break from some Kansans.
Other people brought up the fact that, during his 2014 re-election campaign and again earlier this year, Brownback pledged to create 25,000 new jobs a year during his second term.
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