![]() Observers called it a total union victory and a winning first round against Piggly Wiggly’s treatment of its unionized workers. The Sheboygan complaint by UFCW against Piggly Wiggly was backed in May by a 60-page decision by a National Labor Relations Board administrative law judge, and by Clevert’s order to Piggly Wiggly to make the workers whole and refrain from further such action. District Judge Charles Clevert’s ruling against Piggly Wiggly in May, and other impending complaints against Piggly Wiggly around Wisconsin. Local media in Wisconsin largely ignored the dispute, U.S. Piggly Wiggly’s anti-union stand is the real meaning of its truncated statement June 12 of the Sheboygan closing, observers say. National and Quebec labor boards had ordered Walmart to bargain with its workers in those two cases. In Jonquiere, Quebec, the retail monster closed its store rather than bargain with UFCW Canada, which had organized it.Īnd in Texas, when a small group of meatcutters organized, again with UFCW, Walmart closed all of its meatcutting operations nationwide. PigglyWiggly’s defiance echoes that of the world’s largest and anti-union retailer, Walmart, in both Quebec and Tyler, Texas. 1, throwing all 108 workers into the street, rather than submit to a federal court ruling that it broke the law by cutting 19 workers from full-time to part-time in violation of its United Food and Commercial Workers contract requiring negotiation of such moves. – In an anti-union hard line reminiscent of Walmart, Piggly Wiggly announced it would close its Sheboygan, Wis., store on Sept. ![]()
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