Wal-Mart Wins, Workers Lose

TomPaine.com - Wal-Mart Wins, Workers Lose: "Wal-Mart is one of only two employers in Maryland that would have been affected by the law. The other, John Hopkins University, already exceeds the health benefits the law required. The Fair Share Health Care Act would have required Wal-Mart to spend at least 8 percent of its payroll on health benefits. In the course of opposing the bill, Wal-Mart claimed the bill was being pushed solely to benefit one of its competitors in the state, Giant Food. The thing that's interesting about Wal-Mart fingering Giant�which, not surprisingly, endorsed the bill� is that the company now devotes 20 percent of its payroll expenses to health care. Does Wal-Mart really want to beg comparisons with that kind of good corporate behavior?"