Wal-Mart & SEIU: Unlikely Partners for Employer-based Healthcare
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Wal-Mart’s “Everyday Low Prices” has been a boon for budget shoppers, but the company’s philosophy hasn’t always benefited its own employees. Is Wal-Mart changing its stripes? In a major break with other large companies, Wal-Mart teamed with the SEIU last week to lobby the Obama Administration to require employers to provide health insurance to workers, as part of a national healthcare reform policy. What’s motivating Wal-Mart to potentially take on millions in new insurance costs?
Guests:
Andrew Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union
Ken Jacobs, chair of the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research & Education
Karen Davenport, director of health policy at the Center for American Progress
- Patt Morrison for Monday, July 6, 2009
- Wal-Mart & SEIU: Unlikely Partners for Employer-based Healthcare
- Iran Clerics at Odds…Moussavi Standing His Ground
- This is for the Mara Salvatrucha
- Prescription Drugs and the King of Pop
- Poison Walls? Chinese Drywall in California?
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Comedy Congress Live
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
7:30 p.m.
- 9 p.m.
The comedic material emanating from Washington D.C., and state capitols across the country, is enough to make any sitcom writer jealous, even if most of that comedy is unintentional. Our motto on Comedy Congress is that just when politics makes you want to cry, it’s usually best to laugh.
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