Posted on 04/07/2005 10:11:48 AM PDT by doc30
Top court spurns Wal-Mart bid Thursday, April 7, 2005 Updated at 11:18 AM EST
Canadian Press
Ottawa — A Saskatchewan Wal-Mart store where workers are trying to unionize won't be allowed to challenge union efforts to get hold of internal company documents.
The Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday rejected the Weyburn store's application to appeal an order to hand over the papers to the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1400.
The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal last November overturned a lower court ruling and ordered Wal-Mart to turn over to the union company documents, including one called Wal-Mart — A Manager's Toolbox to Remaining Union-Free.
The union's request to the Saskatchewan Labour Relations Board to proceed with hearing an application to unionize the southeastern Saskatchewan store is now expected to go ahead.
U.S.-based Wal-Mart – the second-largest company in the world in terms of revenue, with more than 4,000 stores worldwide – has been facing increasing pressure to accept unionized stores, but it has largely resisted.
The only two unionized Wal-Mart stores in North America are in Saint-Hyacinthe, Que., and Saguenay, Que., though neither negotiated a first contract.
In February, after Saguenay employees voted to unionize, the company announced that the store is unprofitable and will close in May.
Walmart should close every store that unionizes. After a while, unionizing will lose its appeal.
Just another fine example OF SICK TWISTED LIBERALISM and the anti-capitalist nature of the left and its goons, we call unions. The left, no matter what country, supports every extortionist, loser group it can attract. The "something-for-nothing" crowd in this world that thinks they deserve something they don't want to go out and work for....AND IT KEEPS WINNING VOTES FOR THE RADICAL LEFT, again regardless of country...
The world has a blight, a plague, a disease called LIBERALISM...that needs to be crushed.
Canada makes their own laws, and if Wal-mart wants to do business there, it must abide by them.
However, Wal-mart makes it's money by running efficiently and selling goods with low profit margins.
Unions driver up their costs and usually drive down efficiency by allowing a few bad workers to be protected.
I suspect that Wal-mart will have to charge higher prices at unionized stores, or simply leave those markets.
The Canadians will end up paying more for the goods they buy, but I guess that's their choice.
In related news there was a power outage reported in Bentonville Arkansas. The source of the outage was traced to Walmart Corporate Headquarters, were shredders working overtime were reportedly overloading the powergrid...
I am anti-union. I work in a field that by law says I cannot join a union. Trust me, I am not for uppity unions. But whats the harm in workers using the same tactics in court that Wal-Mart uses? WaL-mart has representation in lawyers, accountants, consultants, etc. why can't that workers if they can pull it off. I do support "Right-to-Work" laws that by the way do not exist in Canada. Its all Rand formula unionization in Canada, and especially in Saskatchewan (most socialist province in Canada) and Quebec.
In Sask. and Que. you can't even send in scabs during a strike. Its illegal. Wow.
In Saskatchewan over 50% of the total economy is controlled by the government either outright, or by crown corporations that are owned by the government. This includes telephone, electricity, cable tv, auto insurance, liquor stores, grain handling, and even most of the oil and the huge mining sector. The Saskatchewan government even is developing a diamond mine. These folks are collectivists pure and simple.
In Saskatchewan over 50% of the total economy is controlled by the government either outright, or by crown corporations that are owned by the government.
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Thanks for your feedback, very interesting. But it is a classic example of what we Constitutional Conservatives in the U.S. (assuming you are Canadian) are fighting TO PREVENT FROM HAPPENING IN THE U.S. -- we (most Americans) do NOT believe in SOCIALISM OR COMMUNISM. It is not America -- but there are those in this country that are attempting to push America in that direction, not for the benefit of America (we know that is undefined under socialism) but for their OWN PERSONAL EMPOWERMENT AS A SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT.
I truly feel sad for the Saskatchewan people, BUT THEY HAVE LET IT HAPPEN TO THEM -- they should have fought it and they could have won -- now look at what they have for a country, a government and BIG BROTHER SOCIALISM.
Its not that the Saskatchewan people let collectivism happen to them, its that they want it. They have supported the NDP for 50+ years. Heck even Credit Unions and CO-OP stores are huge in Sask.
Funny thing though is that at one point Alberta and Sask. had a population of 1 million. Today Sask. has a population of 950,000 and Alberta has a population of 3.2 million.
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