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Browsing Labor Unions by Subject "Wal-Mart"
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The Wal-Mart Tax: A Review of Studies Examining Employers' Health Care Cost-Shifting
(2005-03-31)[Excerpt] As job-based health coverage declines and employers shift ever-growing health costs onto employees, workers increasingly must turn to taxpayer-funded programs like Medicaid to get health care for themselves and ... -
The Wal-Mart Tax: Shifting Health Care Costs to Taxpayers
(2006-03-01)[Excerpt] Maryland is the first state to hold giant companies such as Wal-Mart accountable for paying their fair share of workers’ health care costs. Maryland’s legislature voted overwhelmingly in January to enact the Fair ... -
Unchecked: How Wal-Mart Uses its Might to Block Port Security
(2006-04-01)[Excerpt] In spite of the vulnerability of our ports and of supply networks around the world, Wal-Mart and RILA have—time and again since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001—opposed new maritime and port security rules. Their ... -
Wal-Mart Imports From China, Exports Ohio Jobs
(2005-09-01)[Excerpt] This report tells the stories of four Ohio companies that sell to Wal-Mart. The loss of jobs at the Huffy Corp., Rubbermaid, Mr. Coffee and Thomson factories in Ohio demonstrates how Wal-Mart pressures suppliers ... -
Wal-Mart: An Example of Why Workers Remain Uninsured and Underinsured
(2003-10-01)[Excerpt] A ground-breaking new study by The Commonwealth Fund, The Growing Share of Uninsured Workers Employed by Large Firms, sheds important light on a previously unexplored dimension of the health care crisis —the ...
