Fewer than half of all Wal-Mart employees are insured under the Wal-Mart’s arrangement. This compares to two-thirds of workers at large U.S. firms who get health insurance from their employer. Rev. James M. Lawson Jr., President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (both in Los Angles) stated, “ With 1.2 million U.S. workers, Wal-Mart is reshaping the American workplace. Its Super centers are being built where productive factories once stood, and middle-class workers are now competing for jobs as all-night cashiers, making a fraction of their former wages. The Wal-Mart model of low costs, underwritten by low wages, has cast a shadow on Dr. King’s dreams of an American economy that provides stability and prosperity for all workers. Just as the Memphis sanitation workers were asked to work without dignity, so too are Wal-Mart’s.”

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