And on workers. This is from News of the Weird, and doesn’t need any embellishment from me.
In July, according to a Canadian Press report, a Wal-Mart in St.-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, received a bomb threat and immediately dispatched about 40 employees on duty to look through the store to find the explosive. (Customers were allowed to leave, though, and ultimately, it was a false alarm.) [Globe and Mail-Canadian Press, 7-11-06]
raincoaster 
Wal-Mart sucks. I’ll bet their union has something to say about it…
Are they unionized in Quebec? If so, good. A friend of mine used to be a biker bitch, delivering drugs, having sex with anyone her old man rented her to, etc etc, and she later became a cashier at Wal Mart.
She had to take a stress leave from Wal Mart; said it was a lot tougher than working for a biker gang.
I have no idea if they’e unionized, I hope so.
Wal Mart is a known union buster, but I believe four or five of them are unionized. Barbara Ehrenreich’s book Nickel and Dimed is a fascinating examination of the whole labour underclass. A real eye-opener, except to those of us who’ve had those kinds of jobs.
There is (http://www.walmartworkerscanada.com/) Wal-Mart Workers Canada, but the workers in that Quebec store weren’t unionized according to Wal-Mart Workers Canada’s press release.
One Quebec Wal-Mart store (Jonquiere, maybe?) unionized and was promptly shut down for “profitability reasons”. Of course as soon as the store unionized, WM stopped stocking the shelves, so naturally there wasn’t much to sell on which to make a profit.
This incident is fairly famous–Apparently the really interesting thing was that the manager concerned was ignoring store policy (which is the more surprising thing), but following the instructions of police!
Right, I vaguely remember that. Thanks for the updates, both of you. Well, you wouldn’t want the cops doing it; do you have any idea how expensive a cop is to replace? Semi-retirees and chubby housewives are a dime a dozen.