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As soon as Black Friday retailers conclude the cash register in green with a red bow on top had an equally colorful war of words arose between the self-proclaimed "Voice of Retail" and the largest U.S. retailer on how best to provide affordable health care for retail workers.
The National Retail Federation (NRF), the world's largest trade organization for retail, and Wal-Mart, the largest private employer in the country, have been involved in a heated exchange of public statements and letters to Congress since last summer when Wal-Mart reduced the mass of coal in the first half NRF Christmas.
"We favor an employer mandate, which is just and comprehensive in its coverage, but any alternative to an employer mandate should not create barriers the recruitment of entry-level employees, "the open letter to President Obama, signed by the CEO of Wal-Mart, Mike Duke on June 30." … With smart, specific policies, we can create a financially viable system of health care that allows workers to change jobs without losing their care, and allows companies to be more agile. "
Wal-Mart, the Grinch?
As if the retail giant strangely position in favor of the reform on employer-based health care is not enough, King Superstore risks looking like the grinch who stole of Health in its strategic snub against the NRF (of which his retail empire is not by coincidence, a non-member). The highly publicized letter was signed by two of the spines of the industry's most Big Duke on its side — The International Union Service Employees (SEIU) and the Center for American Progress.
The three enemies at once friends are beginning to raise eyebrows among Wal-Mart and industry analysts. Turns out, the SEIU and the Center for American Progress and very blatantly been actively recruited employees Wal-Mart for years to rally against Wal-Mart for alleged wage violations and hour.
To launch a new session in the Yuletide fire, SEIU has also been accused of actively mount smear campaigns against Wal-Mart for their tactics to avoid the alleged title = "affordable care health "> affordable health care to their workers. The union claims that Wal-Mart, caps employee hours of perpetuity equivalent part-time basis, making it impossible for most of its work force to qualify for benefits for all time, including healthcare group. NRF make a list, checking it twice
The letter to the President, along with its varied assortment of signatures, the NRF has not escaped the radar of public relations for long. Before that the letter had a chance to reach the White House, officials of the federation accused Wal-Mart to play reindeer games in a nasty statement to the media Congress cries denouncing their public choice and mandates the employer to provide health coverage.
"NRF can not support an employer mandate of any kind, either pay or play, set the penalty, or "free-riding" in nature, "NRF Senior Vice President of Government Relations Steve Pfister said. "We are a heavy-duty industry operating in a thin profit margin. We can not afford any new labor costs."
Days later, the NRF continues on the lookout for what he calls the Wal-Mart's action "to reduce to 30 years and more unified position of the Employer Community against employer mandates. "This time, the NRF named his not-so-limited objective of shame.
"He criticized strongly the NRF measures taken by Wal-Mart, which is not a member of the NRF, "the statement said bullet on his website as if were moving Santa Claus finger CEO of Duke being a bad boy. "Wal-Mart is, of course, entitled to their own opinions. However, our job is to protect the health of the interests of care reform for small retailers and just a little more difficult after Wal-Mart unwise decision. NRF is not a choice have done or what we recommend to our members. "
All this coming and going could be classified by some as a healthy exchange of title = "Health Reform"> health reform in the interest of their constituencies. That had it not in the most critical time of year for an industry economically paralyzed, but prices continue to cut minimum never seen before.
Not-So-Happy Holidays Workers retail
The irony is that this spat naughty-or-nice, no doubt, split loyalties between one of the economically weaker sections of the U.S. population — the hourly wage for retail — that according to the NRF, equivalent to one in five of us — the same people NRF and Wal-Mart supposedly trying to represent and whose interests are supposedly trying to protect.
Even Rudolph the red nose could not shine bright enough to cut retail through the fog mysterious. But it is clear that the NRF and Wal-Mart agrees on one thing: retail employees deserve affordable healthcare. It's representatives unfortunate their leaders and the public can not sing in the choir of the same this holiday season.
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