Walmart Allows Its Workers To Unionize In Other Countries, Just Not In The United States
By Travis Waldron on Jun 8, 2011 at 12:40 pm
To complete its acquisition of Massmart, a chain of retail stores in South Africa, Walmart struck a deal that must seem extraordinary to the company’s American employees. To win government approval of the acquisition, Walmart made concessions to a South African labor union, agreeing to avoid worker layoffs, honor existing union contracts, and use local suppliers.
The idea that Walmart negotiated with and made concessions to a labor union in South Africa may seem odd to workers in the United States, where Walmart has developed a reputation as one of the country’s most virulent opponents of organization efforts. In fact, Walmart’s workers are organized in many of the foreign countries in which it does business.
In Brazil, Argentina, China, the United Kingdom, and now South…
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I think the phrase that hit me like a ton of bricks was at the end of the first paragraph. “Use local suppliers?” Wal Mart? Really? Not in this country from what I have seem.