Tampa The Wal-Mart Workers Association has been visible, vocal, and vehement for almost 9 months in the Tampa Bay and Orlando area about the fact that schedules are killing the workforce. On one hand our members are not getting enough hours of work to afford to live and on the other the workers are being …
Category: Health Care
Legislating Wal-Mart
San Diego Lee Scott, Wal-Mart CEO, was in Rogers, Arkansas, a long spit from their world headquarters in Bentonville, meeting the press. Rick Smith, the head of WARN and WWA in Florida, and I were in northern San Diego County meeting with local leadership of some of California’s largest and most aggressive local unions of the United …
Mass Health Insurance
Natchitoches, Louisiana These are strange times. First, Arkansas with a Republican governor with presidential aspirations jumped into the minimal health insurance sweepstakes. Now, Massachusetts, a richer, more liberal state, but once again with a Republican governor with presidential aspirations takes a cut at mandatory health insurance. What’s happening and how can we get on top …