A Rarity for Wal-Mart: Talking to a Union

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The United Food and Commercial Workers Canada has been trying to unionized Wal-Mart Canada Inc. for two years. Workers at the Jonquiere, Quebec store, have recently received union certification and will soon begin negotiating with the company.

Author: Austen, Ian
Canada, Strategy & planning, Facilities & equipment, Regulation, Licensing, and Inspection of Miscellaneous Commercial Sectors, Union Organizing, History, Labor relations, Buildings and facilities, Wal-Mart Canada Corp., Unionization, Aims and objectives, Jonquiere, Quebec

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At Wal-Mart, The New Word Is Compromise

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Wal-Mart's CEO H. Lee Scott Jr. spoke at a retail conference about the company's new strategy of compromise, which is a result of recent public relations disasters such as employee lawsuits and community efforts to ban the stores.

Author: Hays, Constance L.
United States, Sales, profits & dividends, Management dynamics, Public affairs, Management, Human resource management, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Company sales and earnings, Company earnings/profit, Public relations, Company business management, Company personnel management, Speeches, lectures and essays, Company public relations, Walton, Sam M., Scott, Harold Lee, Jr.

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