I’m glad the good Wal-Mart employees rejected the union again in yet another attempt by unions to unionize otherwise happy and functional retail outlets. They usually do reject unions nowadays because Canadians become smarter and smarter over time. Liberals are getting grumpier and grumpier about that.
But note the emphasis and the sleight of hand in the liberal media’s report, designed, I submit, to (they think) tarnish the good Wal-Mart name with what liberals still think resonates as a bad thing to Canadians—words like “retail giant” and “U.S.-based”:
Employees in seven B.C. Wal-Mart stores have voted against representation by the United Food and Commercial Workers, the U.S.-owned retail giant said Friday. In a news release from its headquarters in Mississauga, Ont., Wal-Mart Canada said automotive sales and service associates in the stores rejected the union in favour of dealing directly with the company.
Oooh! A “U.S.-owned retail giant”! How awful! Capitalist—and American! Add “conservative” and you have the liberals’ “Axis of Evil”! Add “Christian” and all Hell breaks out, ironically!
But here’s something: The United Food and Commercial Workers Union is a U.S.-based union too. It’s huge! I dare say it’s a U.S.-owned Marxist giant! The United Food and Commercial Workers Union (Canada) is merely a subsidiary of the GIANT UFCW International Union. It has over 1.4 MILLION members!
OOPS! Forgot to mention that!
I read some of their Constitution (PDF). It sounds very Marxist to me. Here’s the preamble:
Because the history of workers has been but the record of constant struggle against oppression by the wealthy and powerful;
And because wealth, with its accompanying power, is becoming more and more concentrated in the hands of the few;
And because the organization of workers into trade unions is essential to the economic, social, and political freedom of society and to the successful functioning of a democracy;
And because in union there is strength and workers are better able collectively to secure their fair share of the profits accruing from their toil;
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