Fund for Campus Democratic Activism

About ten days ago, Maryland's legislature overrode their Governor and enacted the Fair Share Health Care Fund Act, which forces Maryland's largest corporate citizens to provide their workers with quality health care (to be specific, to spend at least 8 percent of their payroll costs on health care). 32 other legislatures are considering such a measure this spring. Illinois should be in the forefront. Such a measure was introduced last session but didn't make it very far
The problem is that more than half of Wal-Mart's employees aren't on the company's health care, mainly because of high deductibles, and that means that thousands of them are on Medicaid, costing cash-strapped states, instead of the world's richest corporation, millions of dollars.

I intentionally used the term 'corporate citizen' above. Its about time America's largest corporations showed as much allegiance to ordinary Americans as they do the bottom line.



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/13/AR2006011300191.html

Congratulations to the UFCW, SEIU and the Teamsters on this great victory for Maryland's working families. Because what it really comes down to is that thousands of Marylanders struggling to get by can sleep easier now about their health care.

# posted by Rocket @ 10:50 PM