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Current Events => Economics => Topic started by: bijou on November 27, 2009, 03:30:49 PM
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s biggest retailer, won an appeal to Canada’s highest court, letting it reject a lawsuit over its 2005 closing of a Quebec store after employees unionized.
The Supreme Court of Canada said in a ruling today that its decision will have a limited effect. The ruling doesn’t change workers’ ability to seek remedies against an employer who closes a store because of anti-union motives. It does affect whether employees can claim an advantage by saying they lost their jobs because they exercised collective-bargaining rights.
“Nothing in this decision affects the full range of relief available from the Commission des relations du travail,†said Justice Ian Binnie, one of nine judges who issued the ruling, citing an independent agency specializing in labor relations in Quebec. Three of the nine judges issued dissenting opinions.
Workers at a Walmart store in Jonquiere, Quebec, about 470 kilometers (290 miles) north of Montreal, were organized in 2004 by the United Food and Commercial Workers, or UFCW, becoming the U.S. retailer’s first employees in North America to form a union. Unionized workers sued after the company shut the site. Several employees alleged their firings violated freedom of association rights guaranteed by Canada’s constitution. ...
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aH0nUZIx_n_Q
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Screw the Unions. All of them.
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Screw the Unions. All of them.
I think they had a legitimate purpose at one time and people do have a right to freely associate for peaceful purposes but now all unions do is cause businesses with unionize labor to charge you higher prices so the employees can pay dues to pad the campaign coffers of shitbag politicians that charge me higher taxes for shit I don't want or need.
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union = legalized extortion.
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union = legalized extortion.
:exactly: :agree: :werd: :yeahthat: :bravo:
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I think that little show made Walmarts view clear for everyone. They seem to have decided that paying any fines would be cheaper than dealing with a union, and employees all over North America may have got the message union=unemployment. Saying so directly is against the rules both here and in Canada, but the message has been given.
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I think that little show made Walmarts view clear for everyone. They seem to have decided that paying any fines would be cheaper than dealing with a union, and employees all over North America may have got the message union=unemployment. Saying so directly is against the rules both here and in Canada, but the message has been given.
I'll bet you a nice dinner that paying the (current) fines is SIGNIFICANTLY cheaper than dealing with the organized labor bullies.
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I think they had a legitimate purpose at one time and people do have a right to freely associate for peaceful purposes but now all unions do is cause businesses with unionize labor to charge you higher prices so the employees can pay dues to pad the campaign coffers of shitbag politicians that charge me higher taxes for shit I don't want or need.
Without a doubt they once had a legitimate purpose. They have merely outlived their usefulness.
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Unions are a democrat party tax on the working man.
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Unions are a democrat party tax on the working man.
That's one way of putting it.