Capital Research Center - Behind the 'Wal-Mart Bill': Desperate Labor Unions Seek State-Mandated Health Care Benefits

Excerpt: "In the future, it's likely that the relation between where you work and your health insurance will not be any stronger than the relation between where you work and your car insurance. Both will be purchased on the open market, portable and reserved for catastrophic events."

Heartland Institute - Wal-Mart Under Siege in the Culture Wars

Excerpt: "Another charge commonly made by the activists is that Wal-Mart oppresses Third-World workers by paying them too little and having them work in substandard conditions. It’s perfectly true that wages and working conditions in Third-World countries are poor by American standards ... and perfectly unclear why 'American standards' should be relevant. The employment provided by the suppliers of Wal-Mart (and other American firms) is quite a lot better for everyone involved than the alternative--typically subsistence agriculture. Nobody has produced any evidence that Wal-Mart’s suppliers pay less or have poorer working conditions than other industries in poor countries."