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Burger King Is Closing 26 Stores in One State

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Burger King Is Closing 26 Stores in One State

(RightWing.org) – The nation’s restaurant industry took a big hit during the past few years. Sadly, any hope for a quick recovery after the businesses reopened fell apart as rising inflation gripped the country. Although Burger King is America’s third-largest fast-food chain behind McDonald’s and Wendy’s, it’s not immune to the nation’s economic crisis, and one of its franchisees recently advised officials of the pending closure of all its locations in one state.

On March 22, EYM King LLC sent the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity an official notice under the state’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act that it would permanently cease operations in the state. The Irving, Texas-based Burger King franchisee said it started closing restaurants on March 17 and expected to have its remaining locations closed “on or by” the middle of April.

The WARN notice lists 26 locations, most of them in metropolitan Detroit and Flint. EYM also confirmed that it would lay off 424 employees due to the closures, none of them union workers.

HAVE IT NO WAY: As the Biden economy spirals, 26 Michigan Burger King franchises are slated to shut down by mid-April. https://t.co/XCEhKTbz7T

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The notice didn’t state an official cause for the closures. Instead, it attributed them to “unforeseen business circumstances” and an inability to “reach a resolution” to its problems with Burger King’s corporate headquarters.

Fox Business reached out to Burger King, but a spokesperson for the company declined to provide additional information “due to pending litigation.”

On the plus side, Michigan residents will still be able to purchase Whoppers and their other favorite menu items in the state from stores that operate under a different franchise. While it’s unclear exactly how many other Burger Kings will remain open in the state, GPS Hospitality operates dozens of locations throughout the eastern two-thirds of Michigan.

Burger King’s problems this year didn’t start with the Michigan closures. Nation’s Restaurant News reported earlier this year that TOMS King Holdings, one of the fast food chain’s top-performing franchises, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protections in January. The company operated 90 franchises throughout Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.

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Department of Labor nominee ‘worst choice,’ congressman says

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MARCH 17, 2023

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The nominee to lead the U.S. Department of Labor is “the worst choice the president could have possibly made,” a member of Congress says.

In an interview with Land Line Now, Rep. Kevin Kiley, R-Calif., spoke out about his opposition to Julie Su as the next labor secretary. Su is currently the Labor Department’s deputy secretary.

Kiley, who served in the California legislature for six years before joining the House of Representatives this year, is critical of Su’s tenure as California Labor Commissioner and the role she played in the handling of the state’s unemployment system as well as the creation of Assembly Bill 5.

Criticism

“Her tenure was one of the worst tenures I’m sure there has ever been for any such position in our country’s history,” Kiley told Land Line Now. “She completely failed to run the unemployment office in California in a way that gave people the benefits that they were entitled to when millions of people lost their jobs because of the COVID shutdowns. You had millions of people who got their checks late or had to wait weeks or months, or in some cases, indefinitely.”

According to the Sacramento Bee, California’s Employment Development Department was heavily criticized for how it handled claims and that payments were delayed for an estimated 5 million workers during the pandemic. In addition, the federal benefit programs for COVID were “riddled with fraud,” and an estimated $20 billion of lost claims occurred in California alone.

Opponents to Su’s nomination also point to her role in California’s AB5, a controversial worker classification law that makes it difficult for workers in the state to be considered independent contractors. The law has received great opposition from truck drivers and numerous freelance workers from a variety of industries.

“There is a lot of competition for bad laws in California, but I think it is one of the worst laws that has been passed in our country’s history,” Kiley said. “It simply has put thousands and thousands of people out of work in California and destroyed their careers and taken away their right to make a living by saying they’re not allowed to be their own boss. Instead, you need to be in the employ of someone else, which is not the preferred model for those who choose to be independent contractors.”

OOIDA also opposes Su

The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, which is currently fighting California’s AB5 in court, recently sent a letter to the Senate in opposition of Su’s nomination to lead the Department of Labor.

OOIDA said that AB5 and the “haphazard” rollout forced independent contractor truckers to either leave the state, become an employee, attempt to reconfigure their business or abandon the profession.

“We are concerned that Ms. Su would continue to pursue an ideologically motivated agenda toward worker classification that ignores the thousands of small-business truckers who depend on the ability to work as an independent contractor,” OOIDA wrote. “Make no mistake, if Ms. Su were to advance the same policies that she championed in California, it would force hundreds of thousands of truckers to change their business model and put their livelihood in jeopardy.”

What’s next?

Biden formally submitted Su’s nomination to the Senate earlier this week. As of March 17, the date of the hearing had not been announced. The road to confirmation could be a difficult one as Su narrowly became deputy labor secretary by a 50-47 vote in July 2021.

Although Kiley does not have a vote, the congressmen said he will be doing everything he can to make sure Su is not confirmed.

“I’m doing my best to make sure that adequate scrutiny is being given,” Kiley said. “I’m doing everything I can to inform people in D.C. about the havoc that she wreaked in California. In fact, she received a lot of bipartisan criticism in California.

“I think if we can just get the word out about what her tenure was in California and the damage that she did here, then we will have a good chance of stopping this nomination and getting a much better person in this position.” LL

The entire Kiley interview will be included in an upcoming episode of Land Line Now.
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House Republicans vow to not vote for increased debt ceiling

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Citing trillions of dollars of government spending proposed by Democrats, the 103 House Republicans promised not to increase the debt ceiling under any circumstance.

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Over 100 Republicans in the House are vowing in a new letter that they will not vote to increase the debt ceiling — calling the issue a “problem created by Democrat spending.”

Citing trillions of dollars of government spending proposed by Democrats, the 103 House Republicans promised not to increase the debt ceiling under any circumstance, according to the letter obtained by Fox News.

“Democrats have embarked on a massive and unprecedented deficit spending spree. Without a single Republican vote, they passed a $1.9 trillion ‘Covid relief’ bill in March even though $1 trillion was still unspent from previous bipartisan Covid relief bills,” the letter said, also citing the recently passed $3.5 trillion budget resolution.

“In order for this spending to occur, our nation’s debt limit will have to be increased significantly,” it continued. “Because Democrats are responsible for the spending, they need to take responsibility for increasing the debt ceiling.”

The Republicans, led by Reps. Kevin Hern (R-Okla.) and Jim Banks (R-Ind.), vowed they will not increase the debt ceiling if it comes “through a stand alone bill, a continuing resolution, or any other vehicle.”

Earlier this month, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) warned Democrats that they should not expect any GOP support in raising the debt ceiling, after calling the $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill “their latest socialist shopping list.”

Capitol building.Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called the Democrat-backed $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill “their latest socialist shopping list.” Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

“In just a few days, our colleagues will start ramming through yet another reckless taxing and spending spree. Trillions more in inflationary spending when families just want good jobs and stable prices. But there’s something funny happening,” McConnell said.

“Even as Democrats crow about how all this spending is so good and so needed, they’re petrified to vote for the credit limit increase that would make it possible,” he continued.

“Democrats are about to tell Republicans to go take a hike and start teeing up trillions more dollars in borrowing and spending without a single Republican vote. But at the same time they’re extolling the virtues of their latest socialist shopping list, they are afraid to up the limit on their credit card.”

Rep. Elise Stefanik.Reps. Elise Stefanik, Jim Banks, Dan Crenshaw and Andy Biggs have joined the Republican Study Committee Budget and Spending Task Force.Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

On July 31, the two-year suspension on the debt ceiling expired. Democrats have been weighing attaching the debt ceiling to a sweeping spending bill this fall, forcing Republicans to get on board.

“We should not default on our debts under any circumstances,” the GOP letter added.

“If Democrats threaten a default, it will only be because they refuse to vote for the debt ceiling increase necessitated by their own irresponsible spending. Democrats, at any time, have the power through reconciliation to unilaterally raise the debt ceiling, and they should not be allowed to pretend otherwise.”

Monday’s letter comes as Democrats attempt to pass the budget resolution while facing a number of hurdles due to their razor-thin majorities in both chambers, with moderates expressing concerns about the price tag and progressives pushing for numerous controversial provisions to be included in the final reconciliation package.

Last Tuesday, the budget’s blueprint was passed 220-212, after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) convinced 10 Republicans to support the bill’s framework. While the massive spending bill has yet to be written, last week’s vote allows Democrats to move forward.