{"id":1179,"date":"2004-08-03T05:49:43","date_gmt":"2004-08-03T10:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/walmart-gets-a-union-almost\/"},"modified":"2004-08-03T05:49:43","modified_gmt":"2004-08-03T10:49:43","slug":"walmart-gets-a-union-almost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/walmart-gets-a-union-almost\/","title":{"rendered":"walmart gets a union, almost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>a crack in the walmart empire?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"sourcequote><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/TPStory\/LAC\/20040803\/WALMART03\/TPNational\/TopStories\" class=\"broken_link\">Wal-Mart employees in Quebec win union approval<\/a> [the globe and mail,  august 3,  2004]<\/div>\n<p> A Wal-Mart outlet in Quebec has moved closer to becoming the retailing giant&#8217;s only unionized store in North America after the provincial labour board granted employees a union certification yesterday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>there&#8217;s still at least one more layer of appeals, and you can bet walmart will take advantage of every hook they can find to keep a union out of their store.    those crazy canadians tried this once before in 1997, but the union certification didn&#8217;t stick long enough to actually turn into a bargaining unit.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"sourcequote><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/TPStory\/LAC\/20040803\/WALMART03\/TPNational\/TopStories\" class=\"broken_link\">Wal-Mart employees in Quebec win union approval<\/a> [the globe and mail, august 3, 2004]<\/div>\n<p>Some Wal-Mart employees in Saguenay have previously suggested the retail giant would shut down the local store rather than allow it to operate with unionized employees. Mr. Pelletier dismissed the notion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would not close the store because of a union,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The only reason we would close a store would be due to economic reasons.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>when there is a strange, localized economic downturn in the immediate vicinity, you heard it here&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a crack in the walmart empire? Wal-Mart employees in Quebec win union approval [the globe and mail, august 3, 2004] Some Wal-Mart employees in Saguenay have previously suggested the retail giant would shut down the local store rather than allow it to operate with unionized employees. Mr. Pelletier dismissed the notion. &#8220;We would not close [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}