Perhaps so, Kurt.

While I support the ordinance, it's rather limited as a tactic, and has the drawbacks we've seen.

There's no end run, I think, around unionizing Walmart, but, given the compqany's business plan that is a very tough nut to crack. (Unless you're the Chinese CP!) It would require all the disciplined, secretive organization that the American communists brought to the labor movement to organize the CIO in the first place, and then some. Without it, union organizers and sympathizers are fired at the drop of a hat, regardless of their 'legal protections,' as we well know.

Meanwhile, organizing a high-road 'Co-Mart' option for the city areas lacking a viable retail sector, drawing in 'mom and pop' small businesses, worker and consumer coops, while mobilizing the capital of unions, churches, and public and private sector initiatives, would be a better, more creative 'solidarity economy' approach, to my way of thinking, anyway.

It's quite possible to defeat the likes of Walmart in the political sphere and the marketplace with better alternatives, if folks would think a little more creatively.

Google 'Eroski' for an example of how Walmart has been curbed in Spain and France