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Wal-Mart: Wal-Mart Workers
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Unfortunately, even on the eve of the vote, Wal-Mart still doesn’t get it. They lost this vote because the American people are tired of big corporations taking advantage of them. Fair Share Health Care helps expand health care for Wal-Mart’s workers and all working families. How Wal-Mart can hire high-priced lobbyists to defeat this bill, and still look their workers in the face and tell America they support working families, is beyond comprehension.
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The Wake Up Wal-Mart campaign launched “Wal-Mart Workers of America” (WWOA)—the first national association of current and former Wal-Mart workers. Until the company allows workers the freedom to choose a voice on the job, WWOA will help Wal-Mart workers join together to improve their working conditions.
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During the last 20 years, Wal-Mart has moved into communities and destroyed them, wiping out stores, slashing the tax base, and turning downtown areas into ghost-towns. This is accomplished through Wal-Mart's policy of paying workers below subsistence wages, and importing goods that have been produced under slave-labor conditions overseas. Often, communities will even give Wal-Mart tax incentives, for the right to be destroyed.
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Wal-Mart costs tax payers up to $2.5 billion in the form of federal assistance programs each year. In failing to provide its workers with affordable health care, Wal-Mart has already cost American taxpayers $210 million. It's time for Wal-Mart to offer reasonably priced health coverage to all of its workers.
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Wal-Mart fails to provide health insurance to over half of their employees. So who picks up the bill? -- You do. Wal-Mart workers are atop the Medicaid rolls in at least 16 states, costing taxpayers billions every year.
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Walton instituted a policy that suppliers would have to sell goods to Wal-Mart at constantly lower prices, forcing them to cut expenses, which frequently meant cutting wages of their own workers and/or layoffs. Eventually, this led to these suppliers outsourcing their production to overseas sweatshops, a policy that started to gain steam in the 1980s under Sam Walton's direction.
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