A Quebec union boss likened Wal*Mart ads praising workers to “wife-beating”, in a revealing look at how seriously they take violent crime against women.
MONTREAL (CP) – A union leader likened Wal-Mart Canada to a wife-beater Monday after the retail giant placed an ad in several Quebec newspapers praising its employees as the backbone of the company.
The full-page ad describes Wal-Mart employees as the “cornerstone” of a company that has found the last few days “very trying.”
Wal-Mart’s move came after its announcement last week it will close a Quebec store where unionized employees were involved in negotiations for a first collective agreement.
Union officials wasted little time blasting the ad as condescending.
“It’s like a guy who betrays his wife and beats his wife and then the next day gives her flowers for Valentine’s Day,” said Yvon Bellemare of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union.
“The best present for Valentine’s Day for employees is respect – to give them satisfactory salaries and working conditions.”
Note how the story also claimed that the ads “came after its announcement last week it will close a Quebec store where unionized employees were involved in negotiations for a first collective agreement”—not the fact that there have been three bomb threats made against various Wal*Marts this past week, which the story doesn’t even bother to mention.
Also note how misunderstood Canada’s “Far West” is, by the history and reality-challenged union official:
“Quebec isn’t the Far West where the cowboy with the biggest revolver can do what he wants.”
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Apparently clueless to the reality of my surroundings, I’m off to the gun shop.
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