Scare Tactics

    

Workers at a Wal-Mart Tire & Lube Express in Loveland, CO voted 17-1 against joining a union. While Wal-Mart representatives observed the vote, no union observers were allowed.

The worker who pushed for the vote said he has been harassed by other Wal-Mart employees.

"When I rolled into the polling area, an associate actually harassed me and threatened to beat me up and he's actually a Wal-Mart's 'observer,'" said Josh Noble, the Wal-Mart employee who led the effort to unionize.

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"There's been a tremendous amount of harassment, a tremendous amount of bullying, a tremendous of just scaring people to death. It's fear that won this election for election for Wal-Mart. It's fear that made this election go down," said Dave Minshall, a union spokesman.

Wal-Mart had tried to block the vote from happening in the first place. This was the third vote on unionizing at Wal-Marts in the United States. There isn't a single unionized department at any U.S. Wal-Mart. Meat cutters in Texas voted on a union in 2000, but their job class was subsequently cut from Wal-Mart stores. Workers at a Wal-Mart in Quebec, Canada voted to unionize - but the store is now being shut down.

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