Well, that's what the diehard wingnuts will think about this:
Wal-Mart, union call for universal health care
Wed Feb 7, 2007 10:58 PM GMT
By Kevin Drawbaugh
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Wal-Mart and one of its most vocal labor foes joined forces on Wednesday to call for universal health-care coverage for all Americans by 2012...
"The current health-care system doesn't work for many Americans ... We need to change the current system and we need to start now," said Lee Scott, chief executive of Wal-Mart, the largest U.S. private-sector employer and the world's biggest retailer.
Scott appeared on a stage with Andrew Stern, president of the 1.8-million-member Service Employees International Union (SEIU), to launch a "Better Health Care Together" campaign.
Along with the SEIU and Wal-Mart, the campaign includes the Communications Workers of America labor union, computer chip maker Intel Corp., telecommunications group AT&T Inc. and staffing company Kelly Services Inc.
Kelly Services CEO Carl Camden suggested that Washington may soon find itself overtaken by the states on health care.
"The federal government has dawdled and the states have stepped in with experiments," he said, citing programs in California and Massachusetts as possible models for change.
Thursday, February 08, 2007
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Wal-Mart can start by offering health care to all of its employees. Wal-Mart is still dirty as far as I'm concerned.
Brian,
I agree that WalMart has a lot to atone for.
Steve J.
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