If I was Walmart I would close the store down and walk away. Yes it will lose profits but it needs to protect against the precedent.

If history is any indication, look for this Wal-Mart to be closing its doors soon.

Canadians treat each other with respect. Large American retailer Walmart has shown Canadians nothing but disrespect. Poor wages, low benefits and little support for Canadian manufacturers have added up to a poor deal for Canadian workers. When Canadians in Jonquiere Quebec and Gatineau Quebec legally joined a union, Walmart showed Canada contempt by just closing up the operations in these two locations.
What will happen in Weyburn? Will this retailer step on the Canadian flag by their actions of just playing a game with our fellow citizens? Time will tell.
Canada is bigger to Canadians than any Walmart store. If Walmart doesn't want to play fairly or buy our sovereign rules, then it is should pack its bags and leave so we can get a corporation that cares about our values.

Make Walmart accountable.
When we let them hurt our neighbour then we are letting WM hurt ourselves also.

Whats the point? All will happen is lesser hours with more employees eventually where no one will get any hours to really matter. (Superstore) Show me one person who can make a career at Wal-mart. What a waste of money

Just wait till Wal-Mart suddenly thinks that the Wal-Mart in Weyburn is no longer profitable and shut it down instead of allowing a union to form.

thats it keep driving big business away with unions.!!!!...Unionize a Walmart?? Come on people give ur head a shake!!!

To respecting Canada and our values..... Just as everyone has the right to join a union, the right should be given to business large and small to do what they do to not be in a union. Tired of all of this "brotherhood" wanting to be where it shouldn't

Unions are a joke. They no longer serve a purpose in this day and age. Please, unionize a Walmart? If you don't like you $10/hour job, go elsewhere, there are plenty of jobs around this province. Employers are begging for workers. I hope this Walmart shuts down as well. Unions are junk.

Step on the Canadian Flag? Is that the Union line now - not to represent its members but to defend Canada? The same unions who are attached at the hip to the NDP - the NDP which recently partnered with a separatist Party in the Canadian Parlaiment?! The union movement was needed in the 1930's, but having an NDP government in our province for 50 or the past 60 years has ensured that basically every Saskatchewan worker is unionized. Business owners have rights in Canada too my brothers - as do the people of Weyburn, Moose Jaw, and North Battleford - all cities this union will rob of its Wal-Mart. Will our brothers and sisters help us find new industry for our cities? Certainly not. The work only to collect their dues. So the once mighty union movement has been reduced to buying signatures, buying LRB members, denying truths and becoming the equivalent of southern baptist revival preachers - preaching the teachings of a long discredited manifesto. Yes my brothers, the Regina Manifesto is still the bible for these "leaders" (Mr. Calvert included). The kool-aid is too strong in the chalice. It is blind socialism without a social conscience. Wake from the sleep brothers and sisters, abstain from the kool-aid for one month and do some objective research. Start with Tommy - you'll learn some very discomforting positions. Saskatchewan has only one explaination for population decline, nursing shortages, infrastructure deficits, lack of large industry, health care disfunction and so much more. It becomes an awakening.

Walmart is a disgusting example of corporate greed. I truly thought Canadians had more respect for each other. I see that U.S. attitudes are beginning to take hold; sorry to see that. Unions serve as a balance against the overbearing corporate whores that are running society. I am speaking as a small business owner who pays his help well above the Corporations. Having strong unions helps to level the playing field. Good luck to the workers involved. Oh, and to the person who talks about the $10.00/hour job... Have you tried living on that yourself?

The contempt for organized labour posted by others in this discussion is, frankly, surprising. Generally, these views are perpetuated by a lack of understanding about the economic history and reality of Canada. Was it not for workers organizing to demand rights, we'd still be living in shantytowns working 60-hour weeks for subsistence wages. Obviously the issues have changed since the post-war period, but the fundamental balance of power in society has been shifting more and more in favour of capital (employers) and away from workers since the 1970s. Unions are very, very important today. Not only do they act as the collective voice of workers in bargaining the terms and conditions of work with the employer, but they protect workers from discrimination and harassment, push governments to pass legislation that protects all workers, pressure the employer to take health & safety seriously, and many other benefits that can only be achieved through collective action. Within the context of capitalist social relations of production, there is no way for workers to have power over their working lives without a union.

"Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one?"

the store in weyburn becoming unionized is an absolute joke. all the media are reporting that the majority of the workers at the store have "voted" for a union. this is untrue. most of the people that voted for this union 4 years ago are not even working at the store anymore. the truth be known is that the majority of the workers presently at the store did not vote for the union and do not want a union beacuse they know that voting in a union could result in a store closure. all this union will do for the "workers" of the weyburn walmart is get their store possibly closed (but they will still want their union dues) and result in 104 people without jobs. a non union walmart job is better than no job at all. the wholesale club store in weyburn only pays less than a dollar an hour more for starting workers and it takes a long time to get into higher pay scales and it is unionized. fat lot of good the union did for those employees. the jobs at walmart are more stable than at the wholesale club in weyburn. the employees are happier at walmart also. they should ship all the union yahoos to siberia so they can fight for the rights of the bears. if this store closes it will a loss for weyburn and it trading area for sure. everyone will start going to regina and estevan again like they did before the walmart store opened here.

WAL MART IS A BLOOD SUCKER i WORKED FOR THEM THEY STEAL TIME. IF YOU GET HURT THEY TURN YOUR FELLOW WORKERS ON YOU .fell sorry for anyone who as to work for them if you disagree they cut hrs like wall street they due what they want workers mean not one thing to them and there simple management team.yet people say be happy working there what A JOKE

To make this short, any WalMart that goes union means the employees would no longer receive WalMart benefits, only what the Union provides, and they have to pay dues, and still not get any further ahead. They would be exchanging one situation for another. Estevan saskatchewan isn't all that far from Weyburn, and closing the Weyburn store would not be a problem for the Company. Unions really do not look after their members any better than the Company does.

When my workplace became unionized we weren't required to pay any dues until a contract was negotiated.

Perhaps it is you who is "misinformed". The employees at the Weyburn Walmart maybe did not "vote" for a union but they signed union cards which is pretty much the same. It means they made the choice for a union. You can call it what you want but the choice was still made. The people who left Walmart afterwards didn't leave because it took so long for the court proceeding to run its course, they left because other sectors in the local economy took off and were paying higher wages. Other workers then came in to fill their positions because they chose not to work in these other sectors. There are people who work at the Walmart store from the day it opened. They did not want a union 4 years ago and they sure as heck DO NOT want one now. I live here and I know them. And as far as the decertification is concerned, The employees should be asked now if they want a union. I bet you that they would not get any where near the numbers needed to certify the union at the store. There is no way that the union should be allowed to use the numbers from 4 years ago in order to certify the present day Walmart employees. How do you know they have been given the paperwork, are you familiar with what is happening out at the store. Probably not unless you live here. For all of you who wrote in here that Walmart sucks. You yourselves probably had a bad experience working there and that is why you hate Walmart. Get a job in the oilpatch where you're working on a drilling rig floor at 3 AM when it's 30 below zero and the winds blowing at 30 kph, that sucks but the money doesn't. I'll be back in a few days to read any further comments. This was my 2 cents but more change is coming.

Sure then next when the next recessesion hits instead of bailing out out a bunch of overpaid autoworkers we can also bailout a bunch of overpaid Walmart workers ! Unions are mismanaged waste and Walmart SHOULD close the doors on the Weyburn Walmart store, and yes I'm from Weyburn and think this is totally embarassing for Weyburn not a victory! If I was a major franchise or retailer I wouldn't even consider opening anything up in this city after seeing this announcement. Most people probably do not know there is ample job opportunities within and around the city of Weyburn that have VERY competitive salaries or they just simply do not find people to work for them. I also understand that pretty much all the staff that was working at Weyburn Walmart when this was voted in have now left so for those of you working at Weyburn Walmart who do not agree or care about having a union please let it be known and if you feel you are not making enough money there are a lot of other choices around here.
Weyburn is finally a prosperous city with growth, why put an end to it ?

The time for unions has long since past. 2 of my daughters have worked in walmart from high school through university.

They are well paid and well treated. I consider Walmart a model employer.

I would expect this store to close based on this decision. Sadly the union organizers will then walk away, still wtih jobs and food on the table to feed their families - and they will forget about the employees that will lose their jobs- and the families and the town that will be inconvenienced.

Just say no to unions.

I have been working for Wal-mart for over 2 years and can honestly say that it is the best job I have ever had. That includes the job of serving in the Canadinad Military. Fact is Wal-Mart, for me has been awesome. Have met lots of wonderful people. Work for tremendous management staff.

Wal-Mart was very up front with me in every way, from what my hours would be to pay and benefits. Why ruin a good thing and relationship and invite a union. Not for me that is for sure.

This is Canada, every person has the right to quit a job they don't like or can afford to stay at.If uions drives up the wages,to say safeway level then most customers will walk away to the the next discount store because the Walmart prices will not be competitive any more and they will leave town. You can be sure that they will not stay open if there is no profit.

In case you wonder about me I'm 59 years old and have never belonged to a union except for about 6 months in the late 80's and they never did anything for me.Each person has the freedom to choose their course and no other person can stop that. the beauty of Canada.

Read about the Wal-Mart Effect. This is what happens when a Wal-Mart moves into your area. Sure you get cheaper "stuff". But you also have lower wages.

If the union vote was a majority "yes", and those voting yes Knew of the likelihood of having the corporate office, well, shame on the union.

However. When a corporation has its managers keep employees working to clean the store for the next shift and the workers are working "off the clock", essentially for free, and anyone who complains is fired, well, that's where the desire to join a union comes in. Just one of many reasons-getting paid for hours worked.

Weyburn depends on this Wal-Mart. I do not agree that the union needed to try to infiltrate Weyburn's Wal-Mart. Sure it may seem like a small deal to some people, but Wal-Mart brings many commodities to Weyburn that were not there before, or have now been driven away by Wal-Mart's being there. If Wal-Mart were to close down, Weyburn residents would then need to drive 100 kms to either Estevan or Regina to get these commodities. The union should have gone somewhere else with their business, like a larger city with two or three Wal-Mart stores, that could possibly afford to lose one. Weyburn cannot afford to have a large empty grey building where Wal-Mart once stood.

If Walmart closes it is because Walmart did it, not the union. The Walton family (children of Sam) still own 40% of WM. Each family member is sitting on tens of Billions in wealth.
Like it or not.....Canadians have the freedom and right to colective bargaining. Walmart disrepects Canada and Canadian law.
When are you people going to get any guts and stand up for your friends, family and neighbours who are being taken advantage of by this American retailer that is nothing more than a mass importer.
Why are you people so weak? Stand up for what is right. Walmart is not right...it is only a bully.