The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #94165   Message #1829713
Posted By: Old Guy
07-Sep-06 - 11:19 PM
Thread Name: BS: Has Walmart been defeated?
Subject: RE: BS: Has Walmart been defeated?
Boy, you are just oozing with smarts. Why do you need to ask questions?

I never knew that your own health can be a who.

And why don't these Walmart employees quit and go to work for Costco?

Four other large companies getting state incentives appear on the top of lists of employers with the most workers eligible for state-financed health care. They are Publix Super Markets, Winn-Dixie Stores, Burger King Corp. and Walgreen Co...

.....The Tallahassee Democrat reported in December that the Department of the Army, Department of the Navy, U.S. Air Force, Florida National Guard, Walt Disney World, BellSouth, Blue Cross, Bank of America and Dillard's also had Medicaid-eligible employees.

The St. Petersburg Times and its publisher, Times Publishing Co., have about 150 Medicaid-eligible employees and Medicaid-eligible dependents in Florida, the state said Thursday.

[Florida's minimum wage is $6.40 per hour effective January 1, 2006]

Wal-Mart said it pays its store workers an average of $9.36 an hour in Florida, adding that it offers competitively priced health care to full-time workers after six months and to part-time workers after two years....


http://www.sptimes.com/2005/03/25/State/Lured_employers_now_t.shtml