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Quebec Wal Mart workers win union accreditation
Canadian Press
Monday, August 02, 2004
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SAGUENAY, Que. - A Wal-Mart store in this Quebec city may become the first store of the retail giant to be unionized, after the Quebec Labour Relations Board accredited a union there to represent the workers.
The Quebec Federation of Labour announced the accreditation Monday. The store in Saguenay, 200 kilometres north of Quebec City, has about 180 employees.
"The union represents the large majority of the store's employees,'' said Marie-Josee Lemieux, president of the union local with the United Food and Commercial Workers.
"We hope that Wal-Mart will accept this decision and negotiate a labour contract with the union.''
There are no unionized Wal-Mart stores, although a handful of meat workers at a Wal-Mart Supercenter in Texas have joined the United Food And Commercial Workers.
Several efforts to form unions in other provinces have so far been unsuccessful.