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Wal-Mart has lost a legal battle in Canada to prevent a regulatory authority from seeing its in-house handbook on how to discourage trade union membership.
The world’s largest retailer has been told by the supreme court that it must show the book to the Saskatchewan labour board, which is investigating its record on workplace representation in the province. Wal-Mart had claimed that the regulator had no right to see a number of corporate documents, including one entitled Wal-Mart: a manager’s tool box to remaining union-free. But it was warned of stiff legal penalties if it did not hand them over.
Wal-Mart, which recently began a nationwide advertising campaign in the US to counter persistent bad publicity and ‘untruths’ related to its workplace conditions (EP6, issue 10, p2), said ‘serious and fundamental democratic principles’ about privacy had been raised.
In February Wal-Mart announced the closure of a recently-unionized Quebec store. The company said the outlet was losing money, but union leaders deny this. The company’s chief financial officer recently said ‘headline risk’ was a potential factor in its depressed stock price.
The world’s largest retailer has been told by the supreme court that it must show the book to the Saskatchewan labour board, which is investigating its record on workplace representation in the province. Wal-Mart had claimed that the regulator had no right to see a number of corporate documents, including one entitled Wal-Mart: a manager’s tool box to remaining union-free. But it was warned of stiff legal penalties if it did not hand them over.
Wal-Mart, which recently began a nationwide advertising campaign in the US to counter persistent bad publicity and ‘untruths’ related to its workplace conditions (EP6, issue 10, p2), said ‘serious and fundamental democratic principles’ about privacy had been raised.
In February Wal-Mart announced the closure of a recently-unionized Quebec store. The company said the outlet was losing money, but union leaders deny this. The company’s chief financial officer recently said ‘headline risk’ was a potential factor in its depressed stock price.
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