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Article

13 Oct 2001

Author:
Maria M. Perotin, Star-Telegram [Fort Worth, Texas]

Board takes Wal-Mart to task

The [U.S.] National Labor Relations Board has filed a complaint accusing Wal-Mart of unfair labor practices against meat cutters who voted to create Wal-Mart's first unionized U.S. labor group in Jacksonville last year. Wal-Mart threatened employees, interrogated them about their union sympathies and fired pro-union workers, according to the complaint, signed last month by Curtis Wells, regional director in the NLRB's Fort Worth office.