Paul Blank Quotes (20 Quotes)

This is a responsible piece of legislation that the people of Maryland probably support.

Today, Wal-Mart executive after Wal-Mart executive talked about the responsibility

We have a lot of Wal-Mart workers come to us directly because of serious concerns they have at the company, ... So now we have an association that they are going to be able to join to help work on those issues.

Wal-Mart ought to be ashamed. While health care costs and the number of uninsured are rising, Wal-Mart feeds America's health care crisis by actually cutting back on its health care spending. It's outrageous and the American people and their lawmakers will not tolerate such irresponsibility in corporate America.

There is a drumbeat every day that's building. The question of whether Wal-Mart is good for America is being pushed to the forefront of a national debate.

For too long, the American people have been at a disadvantage fighting back against multi-billion dollar corporations doing the wrong thing. The Internet and its grassroots organizing power, both online and offline, has changed everything. Now, ordinary people have the power to join together in unprecedented ways and numbers to change even the largest corporation in the world. On behalf of our 185,000 supporters, we are honored to receive such a prestigious award and we will continue to build the most powerful political movement ever to change Wal-Mart and change America.

That's clearly not an independent organization.

A Wal-Mart bank not only dangerously mixes commerce and banking, but represents a disturbing concentration of capital in the hands of one single corporation, Wal-Mart.

They basically repackaged their old bad plan and had their PR firm put a nice new name on it,

The key point is that the two fundamental problems which lead to Wal-Mart insuring so few of its workers is the fact they have extremely high deductibles and very strict eligibility requirements, ... Nothing that they announced today addresses either of these fundamental problems.

Wal-Mart has already lost the battle in the court of public opinion now Wal-Mart has lost the battle in a court of law as well.

Wal-Mart fails to address the key reasons more than half of its employees aren't covered under their health care plan ridiculously high deductible costs and overly strict eligibility requirements,

We call on Ambassador Andrew Young to use his new position to help us change Wal-Mart for the better, rather than defend its abysmal record of child labor violations and poor health care.

The vote expands health care for workers, stops large, profitable companies from shifting their health care costs onto taxpayers, and makes sure all large, profitable employers pay their fair share for health care.

Now is the time for Wal-Mart to seize the moment and become a better company. No hardworking American should ever have to live without health care or struggle to survive on poverty-level wages while corporate America makes obscene profits.

Furthermore, this lawsuit is just the beginning of other class action lawsuits highlighting Wal-Mart's practice of unfairly or illegally exploiting their workers.

While Wal-Mart's proposed changes to their health-care plan are certainly long overdue, and we certainly support expanding benefits to part-timers, the Wal-Mart health-care crisis infecting America cannot be solved by publicity stunts.

The high number of reported police incidents at Wal-Mart stores is shocking and outrageous.

Wal-Mart's proposed changes are clearly designed to try and salvage a faltering public image, rather than make substantial changes to improve health care benefits for its employees.

Ambassador Young is now in a unique position to reach out to Wal-Mart and CEO Lee Scott and urge them to change.