I do love this first sentence in today’s New York Times story about Wal-Mart’s agreeing to a union contract–in its British unit…

Wal-Mart may be anti-union at home, but overseas the company sometimes sings a different tune.

Indeed. This is a perfect example of how the labor laws in the U.S. are so vile and so slanted. In the U.S., not a single Wal-Mart store is unionized because the company spends enormous energy firing workers and intimidating anyone who even thinks about forming a union–and workers have no protection under the laws here.