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Good point. Anybody know more about the policies and current care debate? Let’s see if we can refine this a little.
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- Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. must provide affordable health benefits to all of its employees
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Wal-Mart, the world’s largest private employer, is also one of the lowest-paying employers in the United States. Nationwide, there are campaigns to stop Wal-Mart’s entry into the markets because of their hiring practices, although they also have supporters who feel that any job is better than no job at all.
Wal-Mart’s flimsy health-care coverage puts employees into the lowest sector of beneficiaries in the nation. Many employees are covered primarily by state programs, and this represents a huge public subsidy for Wal-Mart. For employees who are covered, the annual deductible for families is a staggering $3,000 and for individuals is $1,000. At $7 per hour before taxes, there is not enough left to cover these deductibles.
Customers are being asked by watchdog organizations – such as Wal-Mart Watch (walmartwatch.com) and many others – to call on Wal-Mart to provide solid health care coverage for its employees.
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Great action. I don’t live near a Wal-Mart, so I can’t join because I don’t shop there anyway.
Can you detail the exact improvements you would like to see? If we leave it too open-ended, Wal-Mart could make some trivial concession that would appease the campaign’s letter requirements without really satisfying the members.
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Fawn Dunlop replied on Sep 9, 2008In order to understand the ‘exact’ improvements in the benefit packages Wal-Mart offers its employees we would have to know their current offerings. Cost per employee and family per paycheck and the extent of the coverage.
Every year companies have ‘annual or open’ enrollment in which they discuss the changes to the benefit packages. If someone could get a Wal-Mart employee to share that data w/ us we could make more specific demands.
I do not know anyone who works at Wal-Mart otherwise I would ask…if we cant do this I think this campaign is still in good standing…improve the health care of Wal-Marts employees.
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That is outrageous!
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Sahne Jones replied on Oct 5, 2007
Not only are the Benefits horrible but they are killing small town America! Driving all small time Mom & Pop shops to the ground!
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Mark Driscoll replied on Oct 5, 2007Looks like this campaign has quite a ways to go but it would be impressive to see a million people boycott. Would definitely get some serious attention.
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Constance Reader replied on Nov 14, 2007I joined the campaign, even though my Wally World boycott started years ago.
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Aaron With replied on Dec 3, 2007What are the key components to an improved benefits package that would be minimally acceptable for this campaign to be a success?
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Lydia Garcia replied on Jan 31, 2008I am in the same position as Constance. They also have a practice of firing workers who incurred injuries on the job in order to stop workers’ comp claims.
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MEREDITH RUSSELL replied on Feb 1, 2008I am in on this 100%. I have boycotted Walmart for years, along with Sam’s Club. Why? As the worlds largest retailer, they have some of the worst employee benefits, discriminate against women, have employee’s work overtime off the clock, crappy security for their store parking lots, run slave labor shops in China, and basically are all about greed. They tried to add another one of their super box stores where I live and it was protested. Put Walmart into any search engine to find out the true stories of what they practice or better yet….get over to www.wakeupwalmart.com and check it out. I truly believe Sam Walton is continually spinning in his grave from the way his idea of a low cost store has turned into a travesty of what he envisioned.
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Wheel Man replied on Apr 22, 2008
Hi everyone,
I am Wheel Man (Wheelman) and fight for my independence now…
I saw this, and I have talked to countless Wal-Mart employees from a rather unique viewpoint… You see I work(ed) as a seceratary at a massive Orthpedics Office, and I signed people in and made them feel welcomed to our office… Of course we wouls see over 700 people on any given average day, and on busy ones over 1,200 people. And, I LOVED IT.
Here is what I discovered: For the most part Wal-Mart will force (strongly) suggest people get on public assistance… Medicaid and such…
And, of course the people I signed in came in with some form of injury, however upper management at Wal-Mart would pull people aside and off the record suggest they use there Medicaid in order to preserve there job. I can not tell how pissed I got from hearing this… Not once, but many times.
Our office is apart of a much bigger, University and Research Hospital so we saw everyone.
I found out that full timers get crappy medical coverage, if they can afford to buy it. Again, WM suggest they sign up for Medciad medical insurance. Dental forget that with WM, vision I am sure is lacking also…
The thing I noticed over and over again with WM employees is they looked to be scared, and afraid that someone will overhear them, and they will be without a job.
So regardless of the policies WM claims it has, and presents the public for a good guy image… They do not actually practice that.
So focus on what employees actually need in real life, and as it would best benefit the actual employees. As, yes we can pick apart WM policy and they will fire back with rooms full of documents (they generate for public use) that will overwhelm any point by point fight with them.
What needs to happen is treat the WM heath policy as if it was not there. In effect that is what is going on in real life.
As an employee of WM what health coverage would I need.
First being Wal-Mart got prescriptions on generics to a low price point… Why can’t they use that leverage to get the worlds best no cost, or low cost to the employee health coverage…Low cost would be for part timers $20.00 a month full coverage like any fulltimer gets. No copayments.
Full timers pay $50.00 a month no copayments.
Health coverage needs to cover hospital stays, pregnancy, vision, dental, Emergency room, and Ambulance fees, and mental health… But, really it needs to be broken down to what exactly is covered…
And from this you can come up what each area covered should include and or cover… Realisticly WM has no excuse to not offer this…
The other issue is WM does not pay reasonable wages, and expect employees to work overtime at no pay… In fact some of the people I signed in had been injured that way… It was suggested they use Medicaid as they officially where off the clock at the time of injury… O,o
But, that is what I know…
One last thought… Look at what Medicare covers, as this is the standard ALL medical insurance companies start with… And, gor from that, and add to it…
Wheelman,
The pro-active patient
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