HARD BALL

WAL-MART PLAYS FOR KEEPS





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WAL-MART:

washington post april 14 2005 


" Wal-mart
  The retailing behemoth
 whose $10 billion annual profits
 are based on low prices
 low expenses 
and lower wages
 announced it will shut 
    the doors
AT ONE QUEBEC store
  after workers there voted 
        to make this store
          the first unionized Wal-Mart
               in North America .......
 
          The closure will leave
                     190  employees
                                  out of work 
           a  clear warning 
              for workers 
             at other Wal-Mart stores
              who might contemplate
                defying founder Sam Walton's
                             sharp distaste for unions "


" The world's largest retail chain
 has fiercely and successfully
 resisted unionization attempts
            at its 3,600 stores 
                  in the United States
                Its closest call
                      ended in Texas in 2000 
                         when a store there eliminated 
                              its meat department 
                               after 11 meat cutters voted 
                                         to join a union "
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   obviously 
                both
  the   union 's
      strategy and tactics must improve 
 
                                   and my take

                     an eclectic tossed salad 
                                    of old techniques
                      no matter how they're 
                                  recombined tossed and mixed
                                 won't work  


what will work ?


                a  massive wave of flash  occupations 


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