[Peace-discuss] Walmart closing in Canada

[Ricky Baldwin]

Good question, Dave :-)

One footnote to this story, by the way: workers at
another Walmart in Canada just voted narrowly against
forming a union after Walmart managers posted an
announcement that the only unionized Walmart had been
closed, oh- and taking employees into the parking lot
one by one to get them to sign an anti-union pledge. 
Walmart of course denies any intent to intimidate.

Glad we're getting one in Urbana.  We're so
anti-business over here, we need a good schooling in
the ways of the famous "free market".

Ricky

--- David Green <davegreen48 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> But who did he apologize to--Walmart or the Nazis?
> 
> >From today's NY Times (excerpt)
> 
> Since August 2004, when this store became the only
> unionized Wal-Mart in North America, Jonquière has
> become a rallying cry for retail union organizers
> who
> want to stop an erosion of membership in the grocery
> industry in both Canada and the United States.
> 
> At least three other Wal-Mart outlets in Quebec have
> received bomb threats since the Jonquière closing
> announcement, forcing evacuations and losses in
> sales.
> Bernard Landry, the leader of the separatist Parti
> Québécois and a former premier of the province, has
> announced that he is boycotting the chain. A Quebec
> television broadcaster compared Wal-Mart to Nazism,
> but later apologized.
> 
> 
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