Wal-Mart to team with unions on health care effort
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will team up with two big labor unions on a health care "campaign," according to a joint statement issued on Tuesday.
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In a move that has been unsuccessful elsewhere in the United States, 17 workers at a Wal-Mart Tire &amp; Lube Express have taken the first step to unionize at the world's largest retailer.
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Executives from Wal-Mart and three other major U.S. employers on Wednesday joined hands with union leaders in setting a goal of providing "quality, affordable" health care for millions of workers by 2012.
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In the latest salvo in a long-running battle between Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and organized labor, the company said yesterday it will close a Canadian store where about 200 workers were close to winning the first-ever union contract from the world's largest retailer.
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Long criticized for its health care coverage, the retailer unveiled a plan Tuesday intended to cut employee costs, expand coverage and offer workers thousands of cheap prescription drugs.
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The largest union in the AFL-CIO &#151; representing state and local government workers &#151; is beginning a multimillion-dollar effort to mobilize its members to vote, work for improved health care and organize more workers.
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China&#39;s Communist Party-controlled union is ready to help Wal-Mart Stores Inc. set up union branches at its Chinese stores &quot;as soon as possible,&quot; the official Xinhua News Agency reported Thursday.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. WMT.N will next   year curtail the options that it offers newly hired workers for   health-care coverage, promoting a low-premium, high-deductible   plan, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
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The U.S. health secretary on Thursday enlisted Midwest employers including Motorola Inc. and McDonald's Corp. to push insurers to meet new federal standards on the price and quality of healthcare services.
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WASHINGTON -- Executives from Wal-Mart and three other major U.S. employers on Wednesday joined hands with union leaders in setting a goal of providing "quality, affordable" health care for every American by 2012.
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In an attempt to extend health coverage to uninsured workers, 60 large employers are joining together to sponsor an array of low-cost health insurance options.
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OLYMPIA, Wash. -- State employee unions negotiating with representatives of Gov. Gary Locke have reached a tentative agreement on health care costs.
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General Motors Corp  in its  contract negotiations with the United Auto Workers union has  proposed one option that excludes establishing a union-run  healthcare trust but calls for deeper cuts in several areas,  the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition.
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A union-backed group is to launch two television ads today that feature Wal-Mart workers calling on their employer to improve working conditions and make company health insurance more affordable.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc  on Tuesday announced adjustments to its health care plan which it said will save 1.3 million full and part-time U.S. workers about $25 million on generic prescription drugs next year.
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Automaker could save big if it can agree to a health care trust with its workers.
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Texas Plywood &amp; Lumber Co., a seller of homebuilding products with 130 workers, has adopted a Bush administration plan to reduce health-care costs that Wal-Mart Stores Inc.