Building Trades & Chicago workers: 1; United Food & Commercial Workers: 0…
Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s divide-and- conquer strategy prevailed in Chicago by pitting construction workers against employees who will stock shelves and ring registers.
The biggest U.S. retailer reached a deal with the building trades union two weeks before the city council unanimously approved Chicago’s second store. Those workers will erect all Wal-Mart facilities in northern Illinois during the next three years, according to a labor agreement signed by Patrick Hamilton, Wal-Mart’s vice president of construction.
The non-union employees who will staff the stores in the nation’s third-largest city have no such agreement.
If at first you don’t succeed…
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