We recently noted that a second Canadian Wal-Mart has been unionized, and that WM will most likely contest the procedure. Nathan Newman has more about the simple process used, and sums it up nicely:
Quebec requires companies to recognize a union whenever a majority of workers sign cards requesting one:For now, I'll remain agnostic whether this levels the playing field or tilts it heavily in the union direction.
However, Nathan is off his rocker to suggest that 40% of American workers "are so terrorized that they can't act on that desire to be in a union." It's this type of antagonistic language that demonstrates why I personally want nothing to do with unions, and makes me sympathetic with those companies that (legally) "union-bust". For, if those 40% (a number generated by an AFL-CIO survey in 2002) were to join a union tomorrow, a large part of the 50% who don't want to join a union would be legally compelled to do so.
Would that be justice? I think not.
Posted by Kevin on January, 21 2005 at 03:31 PM
