Wal-Mart Canada

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This paper explains that Wal-Mart has been trying to fend off multiple attacks by organized labor over the past decade in an attempt to maintain its union-free managerial style. The author points out that the Wal-Mart situation covers a full spectrum of legal concerns, such as the acquisition and termination of collective representation of employees, unfair labor practices and the associated regulations, collective bargaining schemes, the scope of an individual's rights for collective bargaining, and basic constitutional rights in a labor context. The paper relates the Canadian labor parties have contended for decades that the labor laws, which govern a worker's right to belong to a union, have always been in favor of the employer; therefore, they have gone directly after legislators in their effort to level the playing field.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Wal-Mart Guilty
Working Conditions and Employee Rights
Wal-Mart Canada's First Union
Why No Unions for Wal-Mart?
Union Recruitment
No Longer Need Intimidation - Wal-Mart Bill
No Union, No Power
Recommendation for Oversight
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"In twenty-first century, manufacturing and retail are working with labor already at a premium as just-in-time philosophies reduce the need for labor resources and warehousing needs. Globalization and communications have helped eliminate the middle man and as the internet continues to thrive in a tax free shelter period, brick and mortar needs will continue to become irrelevant as on line stores are perfected. Technology will continue to automate processes further reducing the human resource needs by companies working with Six Sigma and other efficiency methodologies. This all should be good for unions - but, it is not. All of these managerial pleasures equate to a nightmare for union recruitment efforts."

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