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Charges filed by UFCW with OLRB when requesting a public enquiry into Wal-Mart "Secret agent reappears in Ontario store - Wal-Mart's undercover union busting operation |
Wal-Mart's use of secret funds for undercover union busting sparks UFCW call for public enquiry in Canada The recent revelations of Wal-Mart's
use of secret slush funds to stop its workers from joining UFCW have
sparked a request for a public inquiry into the company's activities in
Canada. The UNI Commerce affiliated trade union has asked the premier of
Ontario to establish whether a covert
campaign to bust a union at a Windsor Wal-Mart in the 1990’s might
have subverted the integrity of Ontario labour laws and even touched the
office of then Premier, Mike Harris. Undercover campaign
to break Wal-Mart union in Canada - They make us only more convinced of the charges now in front of the OLRB regarding a covert campaign to break the union at a Windsor Wal-Mart in the 1990’s that left a financial paper trail leading back to the office of Premier Mike Harris, Fraser said. The charges now before the OLRB detail that a former undercover operative supplied money, equipment and strategic union-busting directions to some Windsor Wal-Mart workers in the wake of the union certification of the store’s employees in 1997. Former premier paid anti-union campaigners Later, two of the employees who led the
drive to decertify the union received an all-expenses-paid invitation
directly from Premier Harris’s office to be with him when he announced
changes to the Ontario Labour Relations Act. These changes included the
stripping of powers of the OLRB referred to as “the Wal-Mart
amendment”. The two employees later received an additional $500 apiece
from the Premier’s office for attending the press conference. - The
people of Ontario need to know facts about what led to the
decertification of the union at the Windsor Wal-Mart in the 1990’s,
and the connection between the company, Mike Harris’s office, and the
changes in the labour act that followed.
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