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Wal-Mart takes a bold stand against labor unions.

The chief executive of WAL-MART on Friday will defended the retailer's decision to close a Canadian store after its employees voted to form a union.

"You can't take a store that is a struggling store anyway and add a bunch of people and a bunch of work rules that cause you to even be in worse shape," H. Lee Scott Jr. explains in an interview set for Friday editions of the WASHINGTON POST.

Scott says WAL-MART saw no upside to the higher labor costs and refused to cede ground to the union for the sake of being "altruistic."

The chief argument for unionizing is that the unions provide skilled tradesmen and enforce standards to achieve more productive labor---that's the whole crux of the "Look for the Union Label" ad campaign still fondly remembered from decades back.

The problem is that retail personnel aren't skilled tradesmen. Moreover, labor union leadership's socialist bent has meant that corporate leaders today would rather kill a business than have it infected with the cancer of labor unrest caused by unionization.

I've worked for unionized companies and non-unionized companies. I much, much prefer the latter, and relations throughout all levels of the company structure are simply better without the non-value-added labor of shop stewards and union lawyers constantly conspiring against the company leadership.

Good for Wal-Mart---in so many ways, a quintessential American company.

Update:

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