Wal-Mart
Here. I have a friend who works as a manager at Wal-Mart. We talked about unions. He told me that Wal-Mart doesn’t allow them. I look in the daily paper. Wal-Mart is closing out 2 Wal-Marts in BC for attempting to unionize. It disgusts me that they would rather close down their store than give people decent pay and benefits. It makes me sick that I can’t do anything about it either. Better yet. They close a unionized Wal-Mart and open a new one a block away a few months later. Monsters. Pigs. Monsters. Tommy Douglas must be rolling in his grave.
July 8th, 2006 at 7:41 pm
Anton, I don’t think you understand the futility of unions in unskilled labour positions. I worked Superstore (Westfair foods, sub company of Loblaws). We where unionized under the UFCW1400, The union was the most ineffective bureaucracy. The union didn’t provide for decent pay, and benefits, all it did was create a seniority system that made the entire operation ineffective. I would like to believe that a union would be the answer, but given that people can be replaced with the next teenager to walk in the door, a union cannot be effective.
July 8th, 2006 at 8:19 pm
i understand that unionization isn’t always the answer but i still don’t feel it’s right to close down an entire store just because the people formed or tried to form one.
July 9th, 2006 at 8:05 am
Same thing happened in Quebec last year or so.
check out the movie
Walmart: the high cost of low prices.