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Wal-Mart is a pretty terrible example to use when arguing against Unions. Wal-Mart is an argument for unionization. Unfortunately Wal-Mart's strategy to fight unionization is to close up and move somewhere else as soon as a union trys to get in.

People have a right to decent treatment at work and to be treated like a person. People don't choose to work at Wal-Mart, they have to because they don't have any other skills (for whatever reason that is) and they don't have much of a choice to support themselves or their family. Nobody grows up saying "I wanna work at Wal-Mart when I grow up" or "I wanna be a janitor!"


Some Unions are really adversarial with management and foster the Employees vs Management fight, but not all of them are like that. I just finished taking a Labour Relations class at UofC (the "profs" were both from CP Rail) and they have a very good working relationship with some of their unions, and a very adversarial relationship with others where everything becomes a grievance.