[lbo-talk] Wal-Mart foes

Charles Brown charlesb at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us
Tue Jun 10 05:17:17 PDT 2008


Wal-Mart foes ease attacks, offer advice

http://www.detroitnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080609/BIZ/806090331/-1/ARCHIVE

Union-backed group gives cooperation a try in effort to improve health care coverage for workers. Michael Barbaro / New York Times Over the last several months, a confidential report has circulated within the headquarters of Wal-Mart Stores, proposing sweeping changes to its employee health care plans.

It looks like a typical corporate planning document, but it is not. The nine-page report, written by an Emory University professor, Kenneth Thorpe, was commissioned, paid for and given to Wal-Mart by its longtime foes, the Service Employees International Union, and a group the union finances, called Wal-Mart Watch. They are known for attacking the chain, not cooperating with it.

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