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Zellers: Target deal would undermine rights to Canadian employees

Edited by Iain Mackenzie

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Target is so anti-labour than even Wal-mart criticizes them. Canada's corporate media applauds the Target take-over of Zellers stores. However, Zellers employees can look forward to an end to any wage benefits, and other rights ,they now enjoy as unionized employees under Canadian labour codes.

Target promises to use its great financial wealth to thwart any legal challenges by both employees and even government in Canada, to its anti-labour practices... indefinitely. Unions within existing Zellers stores will simply be not recognized under corporate "re-branding", and any attempt to unionize in new Target stores wil be completely blocked, as directed by elites based south or the border.

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Target can simply rip into shreds any collective bargaining which Zellers employees have worked to achieve.

Employees in converted Target stores can look forward to either being fired, or at best, working for less pay and donating free overtime, as is the norm in U.S. Target stores.

CEO Bob Ulrich said he "didn't really know what Wal-Mart pays" its workers but said that Target conducts regular wage surveys in all its markets to ensure it pays competitive wages.

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"We believe Target is a great place to shop and to work," Ulrich said. "We have no difficulty attracting terrific team members."

Ulrich also defended the Target's antiunion stance, saying that the company "simply doesn't believe that third-party representation would add anything for our customers, our employees or our shareholders. We just do not believe it's productive and adds value."

Few differences

Target declined to disclose details about its compensation and benefits, but labour groups and former and current employees of Target in the Twin Cities say the retailer sometimes pays less than Wal-Mart.

Both Wal-Mart and Target offer health care insurance to its American employees, but Target's is considered more restrictive. Two years ago, Target dropped health care insurance coverage for all part-time workers. By contrast, Wal-Mart makes its medical plan available to all workers, full- and part-time.

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Union groups that have analyzed the two companies' policies maintain that Wal-Mart's also is more equitable.

All Wal-Mart's employees, from store cashiers to chief executive Lee Scott, are covered under the same medical plan. All employees can choose from the same four deductible options and receive unlimited coverage for catastrophic expenses -- such as organ transplants or cancer treatments -- that can financially ruin an employee.

Target, however, offers multiple health care plans to its employees that vary by geographic location, according to the company's employee handbook. At Target, store employees do not receive catastrophic coverage and deductible levels vary, according to former and current employees.

Wal-Mart estimates that 56 percent of its employees receive health care coverage. Target declined to disclose its percentage of insured workers, but the UFCW estimates based on surveys of Twin Cities employees that less than half the company's workers receive coverage under its plan.

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