As Jesse Russell reports, the UFCW doesn't trust Wal-Mart to work with labor to provide universal health care reform given its failure to provide good affordable health care for its own workers.

The announcement of the new healthcare initiative between the SEIU, Wal-Mart, CWA, At&t and others was met with a great deal of skepticism. Early Wednesday morning the WakeUpWalmart campaign, a project of the United Food and Commercial Workers issued a stiff statement calling Wal-Mart’s announcement disingenuous. While staying focused on Wal-Mart and not mentioning any other organizations WakeUpWalmart wrote that it isn’t surprising Wal-Mart would now want to support a federal health care initiative, but it surprising that “anyone, in good conscience, would give Wal-Mart a stage to make empty statements that will not give health care to one more uninsured Wal-Mart worker.” The organization goes on to charge Wal-Mart that if they are serious about providing universal health care, they should start in their own backyard with its own employees as well as make universal healthcare a litmus test for everyone of its political contributions. The organization ends the statement vowing to continue their campaign and saying that Americans need to remember the company’s record of gender discrimination, child labor violations, destruction of the American middle class, and history of paying poverty level wages. When WakeUpWalmart’s Chris Kofinis was asked if his organization had anything to add concerning CWA and SEIU standing side-by-side with Wal-Mart he referred us backs to the statement and had nothing else to add.