Wal-Mart, loved for its low prices, but not by everybody

labor - Wal-Mart expands, without trade unions

Last year Wal-Mart found its expansion in China in hot water and had to agree with unions in its stores, a unique feature in the largest company of the US.
Now it is using the Reuters propaganda machine to let its cheerleaders write the store expects to double its outlets by 2006 and double-digit sales growth.
That is all fine with me, but I do wonder why my colleagues have not even brought up this little issue of the trade unions. I would not be the only one interested in what kind of deal the company worked out here.