Sam's Club store No.6382, Spring Mountain Rd., Las Vegas―epicenter of a critical battle between labor and management. On one side, employees were trying to bring in the United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) to represent 5,000 Wal-Mart Stores Inc. workers around the city. Aided by 15 organizers, a Web site, and a weekly radio call-in show just for Wal-Mart workers, the union won enough support to petition the National Labor Relations Board for a vote last fall among the 200 workers at Club 6382. On the other side, the retailing behemoth, which mounted a blistering coun-teroffensive. It parachuted in a dozen labor-relations troops from its Bentonville (Ark.) headquarters, instructing local managers in a fierce anti-union campaign, including surveillance of employees and the firing of several union sympathizers, the union claims. Wal-Mart denies it did anything illegal.
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