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Management
stepped up "education" efforts: Wal-Mart workers in Colorado have a chance to join their trade union, UFCW. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has decided that the Loveland Tire and Lube Express workers can now vote on whether they want UFCW Local 7, the largest trade union in the State of Colorado, to represent them. Union representatives report that Wal-Mart has already taken measures to bust their effort. Last Friday (29.1.) a local newspaper, the Daily Times Call, interviewed Alicia Sylvia, who worked at Loveland Tire and Lube Express for the last year. She says that one of the workers has already been fired after the petition was filed in November, and two were transferred to other stores. Management has also stepped up their "education" efforts she says: “They’ve been having all these anti-union meetings; they’ve been making us go to these education classes,” she said. “I think most of the new guys will be swayed because of all the brainwashing.” Another worker Josh Noble is optimistic about the election taking place, regardless of Wal-Mart’s appeal. “I believe in God, and if it’s going to happen, it’s going to happen. Wal-Mart’s not going to control the world,” he said. “I’m still confident that the right thing will happen,” he said to the Daily Times Call. Also at five other Wal-Mart markets in Colorado, Tire and Lube Express Workers have wanted to get union representation through UFCW. Here, intimidation and repression by management has succeeded, and the efforts have failed. If the Loveland Tire and Lube Express workers can now persist, they would establish the first unionised Wal-Mart workplace in the United States.
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