As a company known for "everyday low prices", Wal-Mart has not exactly been known as a champion of corporate responsibility, primarily due to its employment and benefits policies that seem to shortchange employees in terms of healthcare coverage.
Whether that reputation is earned or not is debatable; what is indisputable today, though, is that Wal-Mart's tune has changed.
Along with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the Center for American Progress, Wal-Mart--the nation's largest employer--has endorsed the so-called "employer mandate" which requires businesses to provide health insurance coverage in a letter to President Obama.
As Obama called for a new era of responsibility in his inaugural address, it looks as if the guys in Bentonville were listening. Bravo!
(c) Adonis Hoffman 2009
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