Walmart Penalized For Closing Store Just After It Unionized (Click here to read more)
By Bryce Covert June 30, 2014 at 8:59 am Updated: June 30, 2014 at 9:36 am
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Walmart is known for resisting efforts to unionize its American workforce. But in Canada, one of its stores actually voted to join a union - and then six months later, the company shut the store down.
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In September of 2004, the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) was certified as a representative of employees in a store in Jonquiere, Quebec. In April 2005, just before an arbitrator was about to impose a collective agreement, Walmart closed the store.
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On Friday, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Walmart violated Quebec's labor laws in doing so. It found that the company closed the store during a freeze period codified in the law, which limits a business's ability to change working conditions from the time that employees file to unionize to when they have a contract, go on strike, or are locked out. The court ruled that Walmart ran afoul of this law without a valid reason for closing the store, which never re-opened.
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