Workers Just Won the First Walmart Warehouse Union in Canada
In Mississauga, Ontario, 800 workers just won the first union at a Walmart warehouse anywhere in Canada or the US. It’s a big breakthrough at the notoriously anti-union retail giant.
Walmart is the biggest private employer in the world. (Gabe Ginsberg / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images)
Eight hundred workers near Toronto have won the first Walmart warehouse union in Canada or the United States.
“Honestly I was pretty nervous at first because I didn’t want to lose my job,” said twenty-nine-year employee Rodolfo Pilozo, a member of Team Red, the organizing committee behind the September victory.
The Walmart distribution center is in Mississauga, Ontario, an hour from the western New York border. Workers there began organizing last December to join Unifor, Canada’s largest private sector union.
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