April 13, 2005

Chris Bennett on Wal-Mart Employees

I have found this opinion common among people, but rarely is it voiced online:

If Wal-Mart employees think they should receive health care benefits, here's a crazy thought, go on strike. One of two things will happen. Either Wal-Mart will realize it much provide its employees with health care benefits to keep them happy or they will find new employees who don't give a crap whether or not they have health care, they just want a paycheck. There's a reason Wal-Mart is able to keep over 10,000 employees without providing any of them with health care benefits, the employees don't care. It's not Wal-Mart's fault that you're so poorly equipped yourself for the outside world that working at Wal-Mart is the best gig you could get. You want health care, make yourself a more marketable employee and quit working at Wal-Mart.
Apparently, Chris doesn't realize the large number of Wal-Mart employees (probably ~40% of 10,000) who use the company's health insurance, which is essentially a catastrophic care program with other non-catastrophic benefits.

Posted by Kevin on April, 13 2005 at 11:23 AM

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Andrew wrote:

You are right. The reason that there is not a strike is that the benefits are good.

I work for Wal-Mart, and I am currently on a Leave of Absence to go to College. Because of a Company Benefit, I was able to CONTINUE my Health, Life, & Disability benefits at the same rate that I was paying when working full time, with the company still paying the other 70%. Is this a standard practice among employers today? Try going to your employer, tell them that you need to take an unpaid leave for a year, and then ask them to keep paying for your benefits. What will their response be?

Wal-Mart provides Health Benefits that are comparable to other big companies. The benefits are not gold lined, but they are what the associates have asked for.

You will not see associates bite the hand that feeds them. That would be ridiculous. I agree that if an associate does not like what the company is providing for them, then they should find another.

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