A Walmart in Saguenay, Quebec had unionized back in 2004. It was closed shortly thereafter.
At the Saint-Hyacinthe Walmart, 200 employees had organized successfully in January 2005. Contract negotiations stalled and an arbitrator was called in, reaching a two-year deal on April 9, 2009. In 2011, the Saint-Hyacinthe Walmart employees voted (147 out of 250) to decertify UFCW as their representative union; employees believed that the 2009 contract was tilted strongly in favour of their employer.
Walmart employees in Gatineau joined the UFCW in 2008. This was followed by two years of stalled negotiations before an arbitrator imposed a collective agreement. In November 2011, after one year with their collective agreement, the 150 Wal-Mart employees voted to decertify.
I was living in Saint-Hyacinthe at that time and as it was one of their most profitable store, we were waiting to see what other excuse they would use. But they didn’t say anything. They quietly fought the union in the background, and it was dissolved after a few months anyway. We’ll see if this one lasts more than 24 months.
That’s sad to hear.
I really hope this one sticks and more wallie worlds, not just distrobution centres, follow suit. I wont be shopping at Wallie world regardless but if their labour becomes unionized all the better.
Hopefully like how Uber unionized in Victoria and now other cities are unionizing too. We gotta bring back real union power in Canada.
I used Uber eats once, because I got some free delivery, or something, and a friend got a credit for me using it and I never used it again. I went looking for some groceries that skip or instacart could not get me so I signed up for uber again did not find what I was looking for but man the spam just came tumbling in, the host I use has a wild card email so I was able to just create a new email account and for uber. And now all that email just gets bounced with a 550 error, or whatever error it is that emails send hopefully there system catches that and stops trying to send stuff.
As a US citizen I’m starting to wonder who really is the land of the free and brave now
Starting? Youre like 50 years late, bud, but welcome to the party
Hint: It isn’t the US.
Source: Live in the US.
Aaand then the Waltons pull out of Canada under executive order of the president for the trade war.
Sound mentally’eded*? That’s par the course bud.
Cool. So now we’re just making up imaginary scenarios as an excuse to subtly say slurs.
And no fucks were given. The billionaire class can take their ball and go home and the rest of us will survive.
Just like the imaginary scenario where “if we tax billionaires they’ll move away”.
OK. Europe has worker’s rights. They seem to be doing just fine.
Even better than that. Walmart had their lunch eaten when they tried to expand into Germany.
And now Walmart is losing market share to those same European grocery stores expanding in the U.S.
As if. The waltons are more powerful then the president.
Not really he could make their life hell. Plus Canada is a small market if they had to they would pull out to protect their cash cow.
I don’t think Canada is too worried. We have a Prime Minister with a BA in Economics from Harvard, a Masters in Economics from Oxford, and a Doctorate in Economics from Oxford. USA has a barking mad sociopath that has temper tantrums whenever he doesn’t get his way. We’re moving on…
If they were, they would get gas costs drop and tradewar stop, both to save money on transport and maxinize profits.
I said they are more powerful than the president…not the oil barons.
Until people take a stand
They’re more powerful within their fields of influence. By in large the president is overall more powerful.
