Wal-Mart’s ASDA Averts Union Strike

June 30, 2006

Facing the prospect of big losses from a strike that would have coincided with a big World Cup football weekend in Britain, ASDA management has settled with unionized workers and raised comparisons with Wal-Mart’s strict anti-union policies in the U.S.

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