Wal-Mart mulling options after Canada union ruling

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1525171020101015

Fri Oct 15, 2010 11:59am EDT

* Saskatchewan Court of Appeal upheld union certification

* Case deals with United Food And Commercial Workers local

CHICAGO Oct 15 (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N), the world's largest retailer, on Friday said it was reviewing its options after a Canadian court ruled that a union properly won certification in a store in Saskatchewan.

On Thursday, the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal upheld the union certification won by United Food and Commercial Workers Canada Local 1400 for a store in Weyburn, Saskatchewan. The ruling struck down a lower court ruling in Wal-Mart's favor, according to the UFCW.

The certification had been issued by the Saskatchewan Labour Board in December 2008.

"We are reviewing the decision," Wal-Mart spokesman Andrew Pelletier said.

Wal-Mart has fought with unions in Canada before. In November 2009, Canada's Supreme Court backed the right of the company to close a store where workers sought to unionize, but said such closures might require the company to compensate workers.

Wal-Mart shares were down 11 cents at $53.14 on Friday on the New York Stock Exchange. (Reporting by Brad Dorfman. Editing by Robert MacMillan)

[BlueJazz]

1. Canada has some balls and cares about it's workers. If they had been the United States, the ruling..

...would have been: "Fuck the Workers, lower their pay plus Walmart gets a big tax break and the CEO get a HUGE bonus"

[onethatcares]

2. no,Canada has some workers with balls.

and they care about their families and towns. Not only that, they have some kind of socialist program called universal health care. filthy socialist pigs:sarcasm:

[BlueJazz]

5. Very True.....except for the pigs part. :)

[onethatcares]

9. sarcasm added.

I wish/want/and hope that someday the United but divided states of America will wake up.

Peace

[treestar]

10. -1 for unnecessary bitterness. We do have labor laws.

We can have unions here. That's a given.

[BlueJazz]

13. I'm afraid "Can" and "Will" is far apart. I believe the Right-Wing has poisoned the ...

...populace on the idea of Unions. I love them and many others do but their power is sadly shrinking.

[demosincebirth]

3. They close stores rather than go union. It's happened before.

[CatholicEdHead]

4. Yep, that is what I expect them to do

then use the closing to show other stores they loose their jobs if they vote for a union. They will use a "underperforming store" excuse.

[WestSeattle2]

6. I'd say fine - close the store but pay each worker $25k before

leaving Canada.

[Hawkeye-X]

14. Too short. Give them $500k each worker and each government official

before leaving Canada.

That way, Walmart will return to the US much poorer....

[icnorth]

7. You're reviewing the decision are you?

Here's another option for you Andy. Pack all your f*^#ing bags and get the hell out. I'm sure China can line up another distributor. :grr:

[GrantDem]

8. The dirty fucks will close the store...

We can't expect the Walton brats to give up some of their 100's of billions now can we???

[mdmc]

11. r

[kratos12]

12. Fuck Walmart

Let em leave the Canadian market if they won't treat their orkers right.

Fuck em.

[applegrove]

15. I am so pleased. They tried to unionize in quebec, a liberal province, and Wal mart closed

down their stores. I am so happy Saskatchewan did what they did.