It's one small step for workers in Jonquière, Canada - but its one giant pain in the ass for Wal-Mart. You see folks, over 50% of the Wal-Mart employees in that town have signed union membership cards and they are about to become the first unionized Wal-Mart store - the only one of 5,000 stores. Naturally the Wal-Martians have been up to their usual tricks, most recently by threatening to close the store because its suddenly not economical viable (perhaps because they are blowing all their profits on fighting the unionization in court?).
However it looks like this time it will really happen. Furthermore a handful of other stores throughout Canada are also on the verge of unionizing. Apparently workers unions are also playing hardball in China to stop Wal-Mart preventing unionizing of Chinese Wal-Mart workers. By all accounts they have recently succeeded in this goal.
I just wonder how long it will be before an American Wal-Mart store unionizes? With over 900,000 workers worldwide it could be a huge turning point for the great decline in union memberships in the USA.
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