Wal‐Mart Wins
Yesterday, a federal district court threw out a Maryland law requiring Wal‐Mart to dedicate at least 8 percent of its employee compensation in that state to health care for its Maryland workers. The law was backed chiefly by the AFL-CIO, which has been attempting to get similar laws passed in 33 other states. Those efforts are now likely dead.
This will, no doubt, come as a disappointment to the National Education Association (NEA), which has had an anti‐Wal‐Mart campaign since last summer. “Huh,” you say? “What does Wal‐Mart have to do with public education?” Well, all those NEA officials have to occupy themselves somehow during slow nights at the casino, or while riding around Hawaii in limousines.
