Wal-mart busts union

[Anderson Robert L]

I saw an article our the local paper where about a dozen fresh meat
cutters at a  Wal-Mart in Jacksonville, Florida voted to unionize.  What
did Wal-Mart do as a result of this small group workers exercising their
constitutional right to assemble for their own benefit (much as
corporations do and for which WTO was organized by large
corporations)?  Wal-Mart closed the fresh meat cutting section of the
supermax stores in the whole region and declared they would subcontract
for prepackaged meatsat the effected stores.  The power of a small number to 
alter large corporation is clear.  But also the greed of Wal-Mart
management is clear, that they will go to extreme measures to prevent
sharing even the
smallest of benefits generated by their superior organizational and
distribution system generates with their employees.  The precedent of this
would be immense if workers at these large corporate stores were
successful and understood the power they hold over the large company.  

Also, in an NPR this morning a commentary from a scientist at the Sandia
National Lab in Albuquerque pointed out that the environmental disaster of
many of the recent floods like in Honduras and Mozambique is due to the
growing populations deforesting water shead areas which would normally
have controlled the rain run-offs.  

bob