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:: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 ::
Home Depot latest to avoid unionization BY GRETA GUEST, Detroit Free Press
The failure of a weekend vote to unionize the Home Depot store in Harper Woods illustrates the huge challenges facing any union that wants to organize workers at the nation's multibillion-dollar retailers.
While United Food and Commercial Workers Local 876 in Madison Heights went in with high hopes of getting a majority of the 172 workers to vote with it, fewer than 30 percent did, though more than that number petitioned the National Labor Relations Board to conduct the election.
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