No Union Please, We're Wal-Mart

How the retail giant fought back when labor got a toehold in a Quebec store
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By Anthony Bianco

If Wal-Mart (WMT ) founder Sam Walton had been prone to nightmares, they probably would have looked a lot like the big-box store in Jonquière, Que., on this Friday evening in April, 2005. Empty shelves outnumber full ones by about 5 to 1.