I'll have a few quick notes today...

...but if you've got time for something more substantial, I recommend taking a look at The Left Coaster, where Pessimist has an excellent primer on an ugly subject, Walmart's union-busting closure of their store in Jonquière, Quebec.

There's been a lot of encouraging talk in the blogosphere about the importance of supporting organized labor. The right to organize is the most basic right of labor, and we should all be paying attention to and making noise about this story.