Originally Posted by ngdawg

Where did you get that Walmart "information"? They do a lot of not so nice things, but they do offer healthcare. Of course, they might sue to recover healthcare money paid out(as they did with a woman disabled in an accident who won her lawsuit only to have her former employer, Walmart, sue her for their expenses, but that's another story). They also generally pay more than many other retailers. MacDonald's, for instance, generally starts at minimum wage; I read somewhere that Walmart's average starting pay is almost $9 an hour.
Two of the union manufacturers I worked for paid crap wages and in both those cases, the vast majority of the workers were limited English speaking immigrants. Sticking to a "buy union" method does not ensure anything, but it does help the US economy to an extent.