2/26/2005 10:38:00 AM|||Nathan Moore|||

Further attempts at unionizing Wal-Mart employees have fallen flat. The latest is out of Loveland, Colorado. What appears to be a disgruntled employee in the tire and lube shop of the store attempted to unionized the shop. The attempt was just voted down 17-1 - the employees decided not to join the United Food and Commercial Workers union.

The outcry of organized labor would put your average banshee to shame. Too bad the result in Colorado is not isolated.

This is just the third union vote ever to occur at a Wal-Mart store in the United States and the second time in two weeks that Wal-Mart workers have rejected the union. In New Castle, Pa., Wal-Mart tire and lube workers rejected the union 17-0 earlier this month.

Same union, same result. Anyone who knows anything about the employment practices of Wal-Mart knows that there is absolutely no reason in the world why Wal-Mart employees would have an incentive to unionize. The benefits are great, and the compensation is fair.

But here's my favorite part.

"There's been a tremendous amount of harassment, a tremendous amount of bullying, a tremendous of just scaring people to death. It's fear that won this election for election for Wal-Mart. It's fear that made this election go down," said Dave Minshall, a union spokesman.

The union said it will ask the National Labor Relations Board to set aside Friday's vote.

Unions complaining about highhanded tactics and intimidation? Sorry, but my heart isn't quite bleeding on this one. What can the union offer their prospective employees, anyhow? Nothing but lost jobs, if experience counts for anything.

|||110943640722264152|||Oh, the irony!