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DENVER (AP) - The National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday ordered a hearing into complaints that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. intimidated and bullied workers at a Colorado store into voting against union representation last month.
After workers at the Wal-Mart Tire & Lube Express in Loveland rejected unionization 17-1 in a vote Feb. 25, a spokesman for United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 said the union would ask the NLRB to dismiss the results. Local 7 spokesman Dave Minshall had said no union member was allowed to observe the election and that Wal-Mart added employees to the unit to dilute the strength of the union supporters.
"The claims made by the UFCW are simply not true, and we are confident that the (NLRB) regional office will find no evidence of these allegations," said Christi Davis Gallagher, a spokeswoman for Bentonille, Ark.-based Wal-Mart.
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