Wal-Mart leaves Korea - was never a success story

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.union-network.org/unicommerce.nsf/0/B15DE85B4EAD2C6DC125719A0039A076?OpenDocument

Wal-Mart will leave South Korea, after years of fruitless efforts to take a place among the country's top supermarket retailers. The company's decision comes only a few months after it failed to take over Carrefour's store network, which it was reportedly bidding for.

A friendly demonstration, but with a serious message. The Korean Private Services Workers Union KPSU staged a second manifestation against Wal-Mart's anti-union approach, in the middle of May in Seoul. At the previous demonstration and press conference in October, UNI Commerce and UFCW were also present, as well as Korean UNI affiliates from other sectors. The Korean workers have indeed got a first-hand experience of Wal-Mart's heavy handed union busting, when the small union in Makro was 'eliminated' when Wal-Mart took over a few years ago. Now the Bentonville-based US multinational leaves Korea, perhaps also to avoid having to recognise the right of its workers to form a union.

[napi21]

1. So why are workers in all other Countries willing to fight but US isn't?

I applaud the Korean workers AND their union! I just want to know why we have such chicken-sh*ts here in the US who aren't willing to do the same?

[Systematic Chaos]

2. I just blame flouridated water.

:tinfoilhat::hide::tinfoilhat:

[Hugin]

3. P.O.E, baby... P.O.E!

That's the key.

:thumbsup:

[RaleighNCDUer]

5. Maybe because countries that have communists next door

recognise the difference between communists and unionists.

Here, they're painted with the same brush for the last 100 years.

[xchrom]

4. so american workers are willing to watch their livelihoods float away.