Union seeks injunction from labor board over Wal-Mart store closings

Wal-Mart announced last week that it was closing five stores in Texas, Oklahoma, Florida and California temporarily to fix plumbing issues. The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) said it believes the retailer sought to close the Pico Rivera store - one of the five locations - in the Los Angeles area in retaliation for active protesting by workers there in recent years seeking higher pay and benefits. "City officials in Pico Rivera say that nothing has been brought to their attention and no permits at all have been sought for any work," the UFCW said in the claim to be filed to the NLRB. The injunction seeks to have all employees reinstated to their own store or transferred to another store without loss of pay.

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