In case you had forgotten - Wal*Mart wants their workers poor and dependent on welfare

by Bryce Covert

Walmart is known for resisting efforts to unionize its American workforce. But in Canada, one of its stores actually voted to join a union - and then six months later, the company shut the store down.
In September of 2004, the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) was certified as a representative of employees in a store in Jonquiere, Quebec. In April 2005, just before an arbitrator was about to impose a collective agreement, Walmart closed the store.
On Friday, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Walmart violated Quebec's labor laws in doing so. It found that the company closed the store during a freeze period codified in the law, which limits a business's ability to change working conditions from the time that employees file to unionize to when they have a contract, go on strike, or are locked out. The court ruled that Walmart ran afoul of this law without a valid reason for closing the store, which never re-opened.  

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