Thread regarding Costco Wholesale Corp. layoffs

Numbers are below. This is from the annual report for 2019, published in August 2019. Source listed at the bottom.

Labor
Our employee count was as follows:

Full-time employees

• [2019] 149,000 (added 6K)
• [2018] 143,000 (added 10K)
• [2017] 133,000

Part-time employees

• [2019] 105,000 (added 3K)
• [2018] 102,000 (added 3K)
• [2017] 98,000

Total employees

• [2019] 254,000 (added 9K)
• [2018] 245,000 (added 14K)
• [2017] 231,000

Approximately 16,000 employees are union employees.
We consider our employee relations to be very good.

SOURCE:

• https://investor.costco.com/static-files/dbc8d68f-4fe7-4366-9127-31ba394b818b
• Page 5
• Document: Annual Report, SEC form 10-K