Quebec may set a Wal-Mart first (Unionization!)

Melsky

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Mon Aug-02-04 06:57 PM
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Quebec may set a Wal-Mart first (Unionization!)

Saguenay, Que. — A Wal-Mart Canada Corp. store in this Quebec city may become the first store of the retail giant to be unionized, after the Quebec Labour Relations Board accredited a union there to represent the workers.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040802.wally0802/BNStory/Business

It would be so cool if this went through.

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jeff30997

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Mon Aug-02-04 07:04 PM
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1. I really hope it will work!

Especially since i'm from Quebec myself.

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KamaAina

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Mon Aug-02-04 07:04 PM
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2. The usual Sprawl-Mart response to those pinko unions:

Edited on Mon Aug-02-04 07:05 PM by KamaAina

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart Stores announced today it will build a gigantic, state-of-the-art Wal-Mart SuperCenter with all the bells and whistles, 50 metres outside the city limits of Saguenay, Que.

The older Saguenay store, with 180 employees, is slated to close at the end of the month.

Asked whether impending unionization could have been behind the move, a Wal-Mart Stores spokesman told DU News to go Cheney itself.

Edit: "Fast Food Nation" tells of a similar move by McDonald's when a restaurant in Saint-Hubert, Que. organized. It was suddenly closed after seventeen years in the same location.

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expatriot

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Mon Aug-02-04 08:20 PM
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3. they'd have to leave Quebec, though.

I mean this is huge... this is awesome.... god bless the canadians!

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tlcandie

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Mon Aug-02-04 09:41 PM
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6. Thought of this same documentary!!!

Well, we can hope the same results don't happen!

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AlecBGreen

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Mon Aug-02-04 08:20 PM
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4. good news

workers of the world UNITE! :toast:

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Frederic Bastiat

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Mon Aug-02-04 08:37 PM
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5. This is not the first time

Walmart would rather shut the whole plant down than allow the precedent. Same goes for Hudson Bay/Zellers et al.

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