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Gonz

Gonz

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Wal-Mart has earned my respect, once again. Put up or shut up is thier style & they follow through.

Feb 9, 3:55 PM (ET)

By ADAM GELLER

NEW YORK (AP) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) said Wednesday it will close a Canadian store whose workers are on the verge of becoming the first ever to win a union contract from the world's biggest retailer.

Wal-Mart said it was shuttering the store in Jonquiere, Quebec, in response to unreasonable demands from union negotiators, that would make it impossible for the store to sustain its business. The United Food and Commercial Workers of Canada last week asked Quebec labor officials to appoint a mediator, saying that negotiations had reached an impasse.

"We were hoping it wouldn't come to this," said Andrew Pelletier, a spokesman for Wal-Mart Canada. "Despite nine days of meetings over three months, we've been unable to reach an agreement with the union that in our view will allow the store to operate efficiently and profitably."

Pelletier said the store will close in May.
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I was laughin at this last night. Stoopid fucks. They should've known that was coming before the ink dried.
 
THere are 2 Unionized stores and 1 on the way to becomming unionized...all in Quebec. They just closed the Jonquierre store, that leaves another one and one in Brossard that they're threathening.

that in our view will allow the store to operate efficiently and profitably
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Since when does Walmart have to worry about profiteability? They have 4900 stores f'r crissakes. It's pure union-busting. Same shit that McDonalds does. Close any store that mentions the word Union.

Hell, McD's closed one of their restaurants on one of the busiest street corners in Montreal on account of 'not profiteable' - not Profiteable my ass... Until the day it closed, it had the longest damn lineups I've seen in a McD's ever or since.

Neither that, nor Walmart's actions have SFA to do with the profiteability of that individual store. They just don't want a wide-spread Union in their stores... My God, they would actually have to pay their staff decent wages!!?

Gonz - you find union-busting to be a good thing?
 
MrBishop said:
Since when does Walmart have to worry about profiteability? They have 4900 stores f'r crissakes. It's pure union-busting. Same shit that McDonalds does. Close any store that mentions the word Union.
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So?

MrBishop said:
Hell, McD's closed one of their restaurants on one of the busiest street corners in Montreal on account of 'not profiteable' - not Profiteable my ass... Until the day it closed, it had the longest damn lineups I've seen in a McD's ever or since.
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Once again...so?

MrBishop said:
Neither that, nor Walmart's actions have SFA to do with the profiteability of that individual store. They just don't want a wide-spread Union in their stores... My God, they would actually have to pay their staff decent wages!!?
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And what is a decent wage for unskilled labor? Answer that question, and you answer your own. While unions were, in their time, a great equalizer between corporate greed and employee safety, the union has now become just as greedy and corrupt as the faceless corporations they are against. Clean up the unions, and I'll back them 100%...but, if they are as corrupt as the people they're fighting, what good are they?
 
I currently work for a union, gato. And I can assure you that we are NOT corrupt. In NZ it is a fact that the wages of the 'unskilled' don't measure up to the cost of living. :shrug:
 
Awhile back, one of the unions here was fighting for employees of some sector here, trying to stop a company from laying off employees where the company said they were in financial trouble.

The strike goes on, and on, and on.

And then the union begins having financial trouble and lays off a bunch of it's own workers.
Heh.
 
BeardofPants said:
I currently work for a union, gato. And I can assure you that we are NOT corrupt. In NZ it is a fact that the wages of the 'unskilled' don't measure up to the cost of living. :shrug:
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Perhaps not at your level...but, as long as a human being is 'in charge', there's going to be corruption of one sort, or another. ;)

BTW...the reason the wages of the unskilled do not measure up to the cost of living is simple...They are easily replaced...Why spend 500$ per week for someone only worth $500 per year?
 
MrBishop said:
Since when does Walmart have to worry about profiteability?
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With every single store they open. Why open if it's gonna lose money?

Bish said:
Gonz - you find union-busting to be a good thing?
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Yep. They are money pits that create an artificially high standard.
 
Unions suck ,any increase in wages is pulled for union dues,top that off with the strikes that mean your out of work for so long that any increase you get doesn't make up for lost wages.The Union bigwigs get paid for how many members they have not by how well they represent their members and get paid even when the members are striking . *puke*
 
What's really fun is to be a conservative teacher in California. Teaching in Calfornia requires joining the teacher's union, which is one of the most liberal unions in existence. This would be fine except the members' union dues pay for what the union sponsors. To be a meber of the union, you have to pay the dues. To have the job, you have to be a member of the union.
 
If working for WalMart were so awful, why do people do it? If the wages aren't high enough, get a job elsewhere. Unions would ruin the efficiency that is WalMart's keystone to profitability.

Side note:

Before WalMart came to Chipley, Florida, and opened a store on the interstate highway a couple of miles south of town, the downtown area was boarded up and deserted. Now the downtown area has been revitalized and is thriving. There are very few vacant storefronts, and business is good. And quite a few locally-owned businesses sprang up around the WalMart location.
 
Since when does Walmart have to worry about profiteability? They have 4900 stores f'r crissakes.
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Ok. Lets say you have two jobs. One of these jobs pays you pretty well. The other job, after paying for gas to get there, the clothes you have to wear, and other little expenses ends up costing you 10 bucks a day to keep working there. Do you keep working there?
 
but, if they are as corrupt as the people they're fighting, what good are they
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exactly. I will say I like the idea but it is not being run correctly in my eyes. too corrupt and the workers are actually being fucked in every way. idealistically they are supposed to work with the employees, the business and vice versa. they all are supposed to work together. sadly they do not
 
4899 stores to go.

If they hired younger people (eg. students) they would have a better chance to avoid these problems.
 
True, but younger people don't stay around. They may not get union problems, but they would be constantly training new employees.
 
PT said:
True, but younger people don't stay around. They may not get union problems, but they would be constantly training new employees.
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I think there isn't much to learn anyway, nothing that can't be generally shown in one day or printed and refined while they are working.
 
Yeah Wal-Mart needs to be destroyed just like the American Auto Industry (UAW)
Wait til the replacement store chain comes in, one run by Chinese perhaps?
 
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