Wal-Mart in Weyburn certified as UFCW Canada unionized store

[Omaha Steve]

http://pr-canada.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=70027&Itemid=61

Posted by marin2008
Friday, 12 December 2008

A Wal-Mart store in Weyburn, Saskatchewan has been granted union certification by the Saskatchewan Labour Relations Board (SLRB) after years of Wal-Mart legal wrangling and delays, including two Wal-Mart applications to the Supreme Court of Canada to overturn the process.

"Justice has finally arrived for these Weyburn workers, in spite of Wal-Mart's endless attempts to thwart the workers from exercising their constitutional right to have a union," says Wayne Hanley, the National President of UFCW Canada.

"The time has come for Wal-Mart to end the stalling tactics and begin respecting worker rights and Canadian law. They are not above it."

The written decision delivered by the SLRB on Monday, comes almost five years after UFCW Canada Local 1400 applied to the SLRB to represent workers at the store, located about 115 kilometers southeast of Regina.

Determination hearings into the application began in April 2004 after a majority of the workers at the Weyburn Wal-Mart indicated their support to form a union.

Those hearings dragged on for 19 months as a series of Wal-Mart legal challenges interrupted the proceedings, including a Leave to Appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada to stop the process. The court declined to hear the case.

FULL story at link.

[Razoor]

1. let the bullcrap excuses begin from wal-mart

congrats on the store unionizing. wish more stores did this
let the bullcrap excuses begin from wal-mart

oh oops the store isnt profitable. gotta shut it down.

I hate walmart so much. I wish they would treat their workers with more respect and better pay.