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Quebec Case Study Essay

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Organizing Wal-Mart in Quebec Introduction The service sector is undergoing many challenges and crisis in recent years. Many trade/worker organizations are coming up globally. They act as mechanisms of expressing the workers’ rights to the employers or even to the national and state governments. However, many private companies and employers try to resist their employees from joining such organizations. The organizations mainly compose of members from the public sector, but they are now campaigning to woo members from the private sector. However, the campaign is not easy due to the resistant nature of most companies. The following is a case study example of Wal-Mart Company in Canada and the United Food and Commercial Workers. Background The union (UFCW), wanted to represent the company’s employees but, on the other hand, the company was against it. The company used aggressive tactics of praising their employees as …show more content…

However, in spite of the huge discrepancies in power and resources, I believe the workers still have many methods to challenge the company’s decision to remain union free. They can use the media and politicians to mobilize support from the citizens and hence put pressure on the company. They can also unite with other Wal-Mart workers and plan to all boycott work if their demands are not met. Wal-Mart has adopted a business model strategy of using low labor costs which is a threat to gains won historically by unions. It has also adopted a strategy of issuing threats to workers who support unionization. The strategy requires a company that honors its worker compensation policies to the latter. It means it will continue to hurt workers since the company has failed to honor workers compensation law policies. The compensation policies of the company do not match the strategy. The company has a very bad policy of delaying workers payments and

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