Union accreditation at Quebec Wal-Mart revoked at employees' request

[OnlinePoker]

Source: Canadian Press

ST-HYACINTHE, Que. - Quebec's labour relations commission has revoked the union accreditation of a Wal-Mart store in St-Hyacinthe, Que.

The decision rendered Tuesday was in response to a petition filed by 147 of the store's 205 employees last month.

Read more: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/union-accreditation-quebec-wal-mart-revoked-employees-request-20110309-153101-994.html

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Article doesn't say if the workers are looking to another union, but I suspect not.

[fasttense]

1. Wal-Mart is good at busting unions. n/t

[fittosurvive]

3. However, it would appear that the employees busted this one.

[greiner3]

6. First to vote to unionize;

And then to overwhelmingly reverse within such a short time period smells. Me thinks there is more hidden than one can see.

[fittosurvive]

10. These are tough economic times--perhaps they couldn't afford to pay the dues.

[FLPanhandle]

12. I wonder what their dues were?

Maybe they didn't see the benefit for the money. Walmart workers don't have a lot to spare.

The Union should have kept the dues to a bare minimum.

[rfranklin]

2. Guaranteed that Walmart management threatened their jobs...

or otherwise harassed them.

[Imajika]

4. Walmart probably just threatened to leave...

..and they will do it too.

One of the downsides of our interconnected, globalized world is that companies simply up and leave if they don't get tax breaks or their employee's unionize.

[femrap]

9. Years ago, the meat department of

a Wal-mart in Canada (possibly Quebec) voted to be union members. Wal-mart simply closed the entire store.

The Walton Family has more money and assets than the entire 100 million people of the bottom strata of Americans. One family. And they want more.

I hope they have to eat their money. Despicable people full of evil and cruelty.

END WORLD HUNGER. EAT THE RICH. This is a bumper sticker I saw recently.

[Freddie Stubbs]

11. Walmart is now a publicly traded company:

http://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NYSE:WMT

[femrap]

13. Yes, I know that....

it's been publicly traded for decades. The Family still owns mucho stock and lets its managers act in an evil fashion.

If some of the family members were disgusted by the treatment of the employees, managers/CEOs would act accordingly.

Too bad Daddy died....I don't think he would be too pleased about the situation that his 'associates' find themselves. I can't believe that he would like seeing the 'associates' being told to get on the dole, which they are.

Wal-mart didn't start out like this. Daddy was a fairly nice guy who drove an old truck....he was not enamored by BMWs or jet planes. The baby Waltons, I see, are apples that dropped far from the tree.

Just like the Koch bros....2 evil ones and 2 nice ones. The evil ones won....big skirmish a long time back.

[jmowreader]

15. Don't kid yourself about Sam Walton

He drove an old truck because he was too fucking cheap to buy a new one. That guy was seriously anti-union and bragged about the fact he paid low wages.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

5. No doubt about it.

[OnlinePoker]

7. It would be interesting to get some info from the workers who voted against the union

Given that 65% of the workers who were there when the union was certified quit within 9 months, either the union experience wasn't what they expected or, as you say, they were harassed. If it's the latter, that was the union's responsibility to respond and if they didn't, they didn't do their job.

[Yo_Mama]

8. What's behind this?

I read the article, and it sure didn't have much info except for citing a 65% quit rate in the nine months after the union came in.

There has to be some major story behind this.

[jmowreader]

14. The real reason, I fear, is 7 years and 5 hours away

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51521-2005Apr13.html

In 2005, employees of the Walmart in Jonquiere, Quebec, voted in a union. In response, Walmart corporate headquarters closed the Jonquiere store.

My bet: after the St-Hyacinthe workers voted to unionize, the management reminded them of the sordid fate of the Jonquiere workers.