Wal-Mart Goes Green!
Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 10:08 am
In the UK Walmart took over ASDA-competition is pretty stiff but they also seem to be trying some of the tactics they seem to get away with in the States.
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/ ... 344676.ece
Asda penalised for trying to get staff to quit union
By Barrie Clement, Labour Editor
Published: 11 February 2006
The supermarket giant Asda has been ordered to pay £850,000 in compensation to employees for unlawfully offering them a financial inducement to give up their union rights in a damning judgment by an employment tribunal yesterday.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4787946.stm
Asda, owned by US giant Wal-Mart, denies it is anti-union and has accused the GMB of having political aims.
Oh dear, how do you get your workers to join a union? threaten them of course.