WALMART MEAT CUTTERS
June 1st, 2003
BY PHILIP FINE
AN AMERICAN labour tribunal has ruled that retail giant Wal-Mart broke the law by refusing to bargain with meat department workers whose local union branch had been essentially dismantled by the retailer moving to pre-packaging meat products.
The National Labor Relations Board has ordered Wal-Mart to bargain with a group of Jacksonville, Texas, in-house meat cutters and their union about the effects of the company's decision to turn what had been a fully-equipped on-site butcher shop into a pre-packaged meat department, eleven days after a ...
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