Unions pressure Wal-Mart
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After years of dogging Wal-Mart Stores Inc., organized labour has begun to make some surprising inroads at the planet&#39;s largest retailer.
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Retailing giant Wal-Mart will let  officials from China's state-run trade union to form and join  unions, a company spokesman said on Friday as the two sides  continued talks on the controversy.
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Unions at Alcatel-Lucent  called on Wednesday for a strike on February 15 to protest against a restructuring at the telecoms equipment provider, fearing more job cuts than announced.
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Business & money: Wal-Mart admits increasing unpopularity as unions organise huge protests outside glitz-fest.
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A union warns of "very serious problems over Christmas" if its members vote to strike in a row over pay.
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China's Communist Party-controlled union is ready to help Wal-Mart Stores Inc. set up union branches at its Chinese outlets "as soon as possible," reports and union officials said Thursday.
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In the debate over what to do about the growing number of working people in the United States with little or no health insurance, no company may be taking more heat than the country&#39;s largest employer, Wal-Mart Stores.
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Prison officers are pressing for industrial action in protest at moves to ban them from striking, a union says.
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China&#39;s leading trade union group says it will help multinationals in China including Wal-Mart to set up their own trade unions as soon as possible.
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In the latest salvo in a long-running battle between Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and organized labor, the company said yesterday it will close a Canadian store where about 200 workers were close to winning the first-ever union contract from the world's largest retailer.
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Unions representing 65,000 workers at three Southern California supermarket chains asked members to authorize a strike after contract talks broke down on Thursday, raising the possibility of a repeat of 2003's crippling stoppage.
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By Sandra Jones and Bruce Japsen, Chicago Tribune  Sep. 22--In an aggressive move to win over consumers that also threatens to shake up the $250 billion pharmaceutical business, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
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Trade unions have scored a second victory over the world's largest retailer Wal-Mart, after 200 workers in a Quebec store won the right to representation.
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About 150 union workers at three grocery chains today debated whether to offer their employers more concessions, two days before a contract extension was to expire.
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In the debate over what to do about the growing number of working people with little or no health insurance, no company may be taking more heat than the United States&#39; largest employer, Wal-Mart Stores.
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Wal-Mart asked an appeals court to overturn a ruling allowing 1.6 million female workers seeking billions of dollars in back pay to sue the company for discrimination as a group.
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A Middlesex Superior Court judge in Cambridge has certified a class-action lawsuit filed against Wal-Mart Corp. by workers at its North Attleborough store. The order by Judge Ernest B. Murphy allows more than 55,000 workers nationwide to seek redress as a group, according to San Francisco lawyer Carolyn Beasley Burton, who represents the plaintiffs. The lawsuit alleges that Wal-Mart managers ...