Joseph, as I have said, I’ve done ample research on Wal-Mart and examined the corporation from EVERY angle. This means I’ve looked at pro- as well as anti- Wal-Mart sources. Those two websites happened to pop into my head as I was writing my response because they are two of the most comprehensive and informative websites out there. They may be funded by unions, but the information available on the sites deals with other issues at Wal-Mart as well (and believe me, there are plenty!) I haven’t been “parroting” information from those sites; in fact, I didn’t even look at them for confirmation before posting my reply. (You see that I quoted the NYT and not either of those websites.)
I don’t see how an observant Jew or any ethical individual can shop at Wal-Mart. Not all of what they do is illegal (although a great deal of it is!) but regardless of what American, Canadian or other law says, it’s categorically wrong. Yes, they’ve made a great success for themselves- at the expense of their store employees, overseas workers, and often even their customers.
There’s a very fine distinction in the judge’s ruling which I think you may have overlooked. True, Wal-Mart had the right to close the meat-cutting department, but only if they met certain conditions (which they did not.) The corporation did not have the right to stam close it without negotiating with the workers, and they broke the law in doing so. That’s why the judge ordered them to reopen the department until they had fulfilled these conditions.
(P.S. It seems that you and I view this forum differently. I never think of it as “fast-paced” because I only post when I have the time to sit down and read through the replies slowly before writing my own well thought out response. I suppose others here just dash off replies, but that’s not the way I do it. As I said in another topic, correct spelling and grammar shows that some careful thought went into a post and that it was read through at least once before the writer pressed the Send button. It’s just proper stylistic form to write (sic) when quoting a grammatically incorrect sentence to show that the mistake was made by the original writer and not the quoter.)