Organizing Wal-Mart: The Canadian Campaign

Resource type
Author/contributor
Title
Organizing Wal-Mart: The Canadian Campaign
Abstract
The central focus of this article is the effort by Canadian unions to organize Wal-Mart. Organizing the world's largest corporation is considered to be critical because the company's business "template" calls for wages and benefits considerably inferior to those of unionized workers. To date, although a few bargaining units have been certified, Wal-Mart has managed to thwart all attempts to negotiate collective agreements. However, because the United Food and Commercial Workers have certified units in a few provinces with first contract arbitration, the achievement, eventually, of a collective agreement appears to be likely.
Publication
Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society
Volume
6-7
Pages
23-31
Date
Autumn 2005
Citation
Adams, R. J. (2005). Organizing Wal-Mart: The Canadian Campaign. Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 6–7, 23–31. http://www.justlabour.yorku.ca/volume67/pdfs/03%20Warskett%20Bickerton%20Press.pdf