Wal-Mart Runs Away from Workers
and Runs Over Worker Rights
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February 10, 2005
The world’s largest corporation is choosing to destroy the livelihoods of nearly 200 working families.
Wal-Mart announced, yesterday, it was shutting down the store where workers had unionized six months earlier to have a voice on the job. Workers at the Jonquiere, Quebec store had been in negotiations with Wal-Mart the last several months, attempting to reach a fair agreement on wages and benefits. The company pulled the plug on the store when the workers appealed to the Quebec Labor Ministry to initiate a process that would establish a fair and impartial wage and benefit settlement.
“This latest action by Wal-Mart demonstrates, once
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| Pierre Martineau, left, and Patrice Bergeron, Wal-Mart employees in Jonquiere, Quebec, helped organize a union certification drive. |
Wal-Mart’s decision to close the store is a message from the world’s largest and wealthiest corporation to consumers, communities and workers worldwide: Wal-Mart would rather close stores, eliminate worker’s jobs and make the entire community suffer, rather than reach an agreement with workers for fair wages and benefits.
“The company is accused of discriminating against women,” added Hansen. “It cheats workers out of pay. Wal-Mart has illegally spied on, coerced, and bribed workers who want to form a union. And now it closes a store because it was facing a decision by the Quebec Labor Ministry to subject the company to a fair and impartial settlement with workers at the Jonquiere store.”
Rather than raising standards, Wal-Mart continually attempts to set a new low when it comes to unfairness.
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