Up Against Wal-Mart By Karen Olsson, MotherJones
At the first sign of organizing in a store, Wal-Mart dispatches a team of union busters from its headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, sometimes setting up surveillance cameras to monitor workers. 'In my 35 years in labor relations, I've never seen a company that will go to the lengths that Wal-Mart goes to, to avoid a union,' says Martin Levitt, a management consultant who helped the company develop its anti-union tactics before writing a book called
Confessions of a Union Buster. 'They have zero tolerance.'