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Wal-Mart's harassment and intimidation of its workers in Loveland, Colorado are subject to a hearing by the National Labor Relations Board. Last week, the hearing was postponed as one of the UFCW witnesses suffered a seizure.

Josh Noble, the tire and lube worker who initiated the Loveland vote said to the ABC7 TV news in Denver that he had been harassed by another Wal-Mart worker.

Threatened to beat me up

- When I rolled into the polling area, an associate actually harassed me and threatened to beat me up and he's actually a Wal-Mart's 'observer,'" said Josh Noble, the Wal-Mart employee who led the effort to unionize.

Norberto Ricardo, a UFCW organiser, said he plans to testify that Wal-Mart also tipped the election by "salting" the shop with anti-union employees transferred from other stores.

The tire and lube workers in Loveland were finally too scared by the company's harassment and intimidation campaign to dare to vote for UFCW representation. Just days before, Wal-Mart had announced that it was closing down its store in De Jonquiere, Canada, where collective agreement negotiations were just to begin. This was generally seen as a warning and a threat to the Colorado workers, telling them what would also happen to their jobs if they would vote for the union.