Wal-Mart Unionization Fails

From Reuters:

Wal-Mart -- which recently shut down a Canadian store that voted in favor of a union -- said tire and lube express associates at its Loveland supercenter voted 17-1 to reject representation by the United Food & Commercial Workers Union.
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"Wal-Mart did what it does best. It scares people. They are very good at putting the fear of God in their employees," said Dave Minshall of the UFCW.

He said the union would file several charges with the National Labor Relations Board, officials of which oversaw the balloting.

Minshall said the UFCW would wanted to charge Wal-Mart with interfering with the balloting. He said the retailer had barred the union from sending its own representative to observe the vote.

But Terry Srsen, vice president of labor relations for Wal-Mart, said in a statement: "Many of our associates are former union members -- they know better than anyone that the only guarantee a union can make is that it will cost the members money -- and that is why they continue to reject the UFCW."

I don't get how they could get the union all the way to a vote and have it lose 17-1. Wouldn't there have to have been more that one organizer amongst the workers? And Srsen, whom I'm tempted to buy a vowel for, doesn't hide his/her contempt for unions. I mean there's really only one guarantee that Wal-Mart provides its workers: "Always low wages. Always."