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Wal-Mart ASDA continues
its efforts to break this Friday's strike Wal-Mart Asda is going to great lengths in trying to stop the distribution centre workers' strike which UNI affiliated trade union GMB has announced for Friday, to continue for five days. Bulky items have been discounted to get rid of them and fill backroom spaces with food instead, in preparation of shortages. Non-union workers have been employed for this period and the company intends to transport them with buses to the depots on strike. Management explanations that all this is done because of the Football World Cup in Germany sounds do not get much credibility. The Bentonville-based retail multinational's British subsidiary has also announced that they will challenge the distribution centre workers' strike ballot in court, in an attempt to stop their industrial action. This is denounced by the union, who point out that the voting was completely clear and that if any union members who had already left their jobs in the company received the ballots, this was caused by the refusal of Asda Wal-Mart to provide the names of those who pay their fees through an employer checkout. GMB has also moved in on the employment agencies, who have not committed themselves to respecting the British legislation, which forbids them from sending out strike-breakers. Surveillance cameras will be posted at picket lines, to be able to document any incidents of this kind of strike-breaking.
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