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:: Monday, February 02, 2004 ::

Employers Put Workers First, Succeed By CECIL JOHNSON, The Ledger
Among the worker benefits at SAS: an on-site, subsidized Montessori day-care program for employees' children, flexible work hours, unlimited sick days, 'kids' days' off to attend to sick children or important events, a seven-hour workday, a cafeteria with booster seats and high chairs and a round-the-clock free health center with 11 familynurse practitioners, three familypractice physicians, two nutritionists, 10 nurses, a psychotherapist and two physical therapists.

Price of doing business with Wal-Mart is high By Dan Gillmor, Mercury News
Let me say it up front: I don't like Wal-Mart.
The virulently anti-union retailer pays low wages and offers poor benefits for a company of its size and profitability. When employees who can't afford its health insurance have serious health problems, the public ends up footing the bill for their care, the Los Angeles Times reported in a recent series about Wal-Mart's oversize impact. In effect, our taxes subsidize the Wal-Marts of our nation.

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