Wal-Mart Watch

Twenty Wal-Mart employees in Loveland, Colorado are voting today on joining the United Food and Commercial Workers union. If the union wins, it would be the first Wal-Mart union in the U.S.--sort of. From the article:

Meatcutters in Texas conducted a union vote in 2000, but shortly afterward, Wal-Mart eliminated the position companywide, insisting the move was not related to the election. Earlier this month, the company said it would close a store in Quebec, Canada, because of what company officials called "unreasonable demands" by workers trying to negotiate the first-ever union contract with the retailer.

Also this week, Wal-Mart was successfully kept out of New York City, and lost a $7.5 million lawsuit. And the battle continues against a new Wal-Mart in Saline, Michigan, Ann Arbor's neighbor to the south.