Only in Canada

The best cars means they are better than the rest of the cars.
However the asians have really good cars too, but IMO the european are still better.
 
Sharky said:
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.
That's exaclty what happened to Paso Robles (where I grew up). Downtown was reeling, then Wal-Mart came to town. The local Indians opposed Wal-Mart because of an old burial ground on the location, and the unions opposed Wal-Mart as well. Wal-Mart and the developer compromised with the Indians, and the burial ground is green space today surrounded by Wal-Mart, Staples, JCPenney, and a Kohl's that's about to open. When the Indians and Wal-Mart settled, the local union organizer was pissed because he had no back-up anymore.

In any case, some of the citizens got together and drove the effort to get downtown revitalized. Now the downtown is vibrant enough that it will more than survive the collapse of one building during the big earthquake and the eventual dismantling of severla other buildings afterwards.
 
Well I'm glad you like them.
So what is a Europeon car?
yer-rope is a big place
with lots of widdle car companies mostly owned
by American car companies right?
 
WAL-MART CHIEF VOWS TO BE 'EVERYWHERE WE ARE NOT'; SAYS EMPLOYEES DON'T NEED A UNION
Thu Feb 10 2005 21:03:25 ET

The chief executive of WAL-MART on Friday will defended the retailer's decision to close a Canadian store after its employees voted to form a union.

"You can't take a store that is a struggling store anyway and add a bunch of people and a bunch of work rules that cause you to even be in worse shape," H. Lee Scott Jr. explains in an interview set for Friday editions of the WASHINGTON POST.

Scott says WAL-MART saw no upside to the higher labor costs and refused to cede ground to the union for the sake of being "altruistic."

"It doesn't work that way," he said.

WAL-MART'S decision has infuriated the United Food and Commercial Workers union, which was negotiating a contract for the Quebec store's 190 employees. If it had succeeded, the store would have become the only WAL-MART store in North America with a union contract.

Scott says WAL-MART'S strategy for growth is to be "everywhere we are not."

In the United States, that means edging closer to major cities, such as Los Angeles, New York and Washington, where the chain is likely to find less land, higher costs and stiffer resistance from labor unions and neighborhood activists.

Developing...
 
I would love to see an ironclad rule with Wal-Mart.
If the employees try to Unionize the store is closed.
An infestation of the Wal-Mart chain by unions profits no one. Except perhaps the unions.
 
lol!!!

Unions say they are negotiating a landmark industrial relations claim to allow women to take extra sick leave for menstrual pain.

The Manufacturing Workers Union (MWU) says some women have particularly bad periods and are genuinely forced to call in sick.

As part of negotiations for a new enterprise bargaining agreement at Toyota, the union has asked for women to be allowed 12 paid days menstrual leave a year.

The union's national secretary, Doug Cameron, says the leave would be additional to the sick leave they are already entitled to.

"Our members tell us that they have to take their sick leave, some of them on a regular basis, because they've got chronic problems with their period," Mr Cameron said.

"We believe that they shouldn't be disadvantaged against men that don't have a regular problem once a month."

The Australian Industry Group has condemned the move.

Chief executive Heather Ridout says it is a particularly bad time to even propose such a claim.

"I think it will set a dangerous precedent," she said.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200502/s1300583.htm
 
I really can't see any bad in this.

1) a union got what it deserved.
2) A walmart closed.


Works for me.

Oh, and Bish .... How's your liquor supply? It should be back to normal soon, now that the unionized SAQ workers are finally getting their well paid asses back to work. After bleeding the Sun Youth food banks.
 
I used to tell my wife, correctly, that her problem was PMS. She'd get pissed. Then, she'd got over it. She now has that problem taken care of & we no longer have PMS in this household.

Men, be honest with your woman.*


*Explain this procedure, in advance, during non-PMS days
 
Gotta love those union members

GATINEAU, Que. (CP) - Two Wal-Mart outlets in this city received bomb threats on Friday, forcing employees and customers to leave both stores, police said.



One of the stores later reopened after police conducted a thorough search, said Sgt. Andre Pellerin of Gatineau police. Pellerin said the calls came within about 20 minutes of each other.


The threats came a few days after the U.S. retail giant announced plans to close a unionized Quebec store in Saguenay, where employees were trying to negotiate a first contract.


Pellerin would not comment when asked if the male caller talked about the closure.


He said the caller threatened explosions at the stores before noon.


Pellerin didn't know how many customers or employees were involved.


Workers at a Wal-Mart store in St-Hyacinthe, east of Montreal, have also received their union accreditation but have not yet obtained a contract.
 
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