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By Doug Cunningham

United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1518 in Canada says Wal-Mart may close a garage in Gatineau when workers there get their first collective bargaining agreement. The UFCW says Wal-Mart has hinted it will close the garage. The workers are awaiting their first collective bargaining agreement from a binding arbitration process. They unionized in 2005. The union says it expects a contract to be imposed soon, making it the first at a North American Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart closed a store in Jonquire after workers there formed a union.