SearsCanada
Joined: 29 Mar 2006
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Location: Ontario, Canada
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Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 7:54 pm Post subject: just a number at Walmart
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Life is cheap at Wal-Mart: Company orders 40 employees to search for a bomb
11/07/2006
Download this Media Release St-Jean-Sur-Richelieu, Que. July 11, 2006 - Why did Wal-Mart clear customers out of a Quebec store and then order 40 of its workers to stay in the store and search for a bomb? On July 5 workers at a Wal-Mart in St-Jean-Sur-Richelieu, Quebec were ordered by Wal-Mart to help police search for a bomb, even though police recommended to Wal-Mart that the store should be completely evacuated.
An investigation is underway and some of the workers continue to be traumatized from the forced search.
“This was a pretty sad message about how much value Wal-Mart puts on the lives of its workers", says Wayne Hanley, national director of UFCW Canada (United Food and Commercial Workers Canada).
“But no worker’s life is worthless. What made Wal-Mart think it had the right to endanger 40 people without their consent? Why did Wal-Mart usher out its customers but order its workers to stay put? What if a bomb really had been planted?”
“This is a very troubling story," says Hanley, “and makes you wonder what kind of information Wal-Mart gives its employees about the labour laws." |
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