Organized labor won the opening salvo in an all-out effort to limit Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s expansion in California, successfully lobbying the Inglewood City Council to block the nonunion retail giant's plans to build a super center in that city.
The union representing local supermarket clerks, which recently raised dues to create a $3-million war chest to fight Wal-Mart's expansion in California, is now pushing a similar ordinance in the city of Los Angeles.
