Union Seeks to Represent Wal-Mart Workers

Union Seeks to Represent Wal-Mart Workers

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) - Union efforts to organize Wal-Mart workers in Canada continued Monday in the auto-service departments of seven British Columbia outlets of the world's largest retailer.

The United Food and Commercial Workers said it has applied to represent employees at Wal-Mart Tire & Lube Express in Terrace, Dawson Creek, Fort St. John, Quesnel, Kamloops, Langford and Surrey.

"These Wal-Mart employees have expressed real interest in joining our union, and were brave enough to sign union cards despite their employer's well-documented hostility toward unions," said Brooke Sundin, president of UFCW Canada Local 1518.

Sundin, whose union has 26,000 members in British Columbia and 230,000 across Canada, expressed optimism that the provincial Labor Relations Board will quickly hold a certification vote.

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Union Seeks to Represent Wal-Mart Workers

The unions at Wal-Mart have already been caught rigging the vote on at least two occasions.

I recall that the meat cutters at Walmart voted to join the union, so Walmart eliminated all of their butcher shops.

Monitor when they tried to organize a union to fight minimum wage jobs with 40 hours of unpaid overtime a week.

Ralph put on his corporate lawyer hat, fired all the workers, shut the paper down and opened a new paper.

He bought himself a nice townhouse around the same time.

The union tried to get into the store in Windsor- workers voted against the union by a 2-1 margin but the Ontario Labour Relations Board overruled the employees' wishes and certified the union anyway. About a year later the employees successfully petitioned for a decertification of the union, but lost the vote by a margin of 3:1. The union backed off when the employee group collected affidavits from more than half the workers stating that they voted against the union.