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The stingy retail behemoth finds yet another way to hurt its workers. Walmart is a wildly successful company. Its “corporate fact sheet” online boasts that for “the fiscal year ended January 31, 2014, Walmart increased net sales by 1.6% to $473.1 billion and returned $12.8 billion to shareholders through dividends and share repurchases. Walmart ranked first on the 2014 Fortune 500 list of the world’s largest companies by revenue.” Yet despite the retail behemoths growing financial prosperity, which greatly benefits the companys shareholders, executives and especially the Walton family, the company has now decided that poverty wages are not bad enough for its employees. It will also cut their benefits. Walmart just announced that it will both be cutting health care coverage altogether for 30,000 part-time employees (about 2 percent of its workforce) while increasing the premiums paid by its other employees. The size of the premium increases is significant – bi-weekly premiums for its lowest-cost employee plans will rise 19 percent from $3.50 to $21.90. Walmarts latest move on health care is just the latest in its crusade to build a business empire based on cheap labor, one where even full-time workers need food stamps to survive. It is notorious for suppressing employee rights, going as far as to shut down entire stores that have unionized. In 2013, a Congressional report estimated that Walmarts failure to provide decent wages and benefits could cost taxpayers as much as $900,000 per store thanks to government provision of food stamps and other aid. Chances are that number will increase now. Thanks to all this, the Waltons, the Walmart heirs, have more wealth than the bottom 40 percent of Americans – estimated at $102.7 billion in 2012. Related Stories Do You Really Want the Person Caring for Your Elderly Parent, Like Me, Paid Minimum Wage? Workers Win Battles Against Wage Theft, But Can They Win the War? Woman with 4 Jobs Dies While Napping in Car ift.tt/1sgW1hN

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