Starbucks and Costco provider healthcare even to PT employees

[obamanut2012]

They may not have "Cadillac Plans" for store-level staff, but I know people who work for both, and they both provide decent plans.

IKEA also provides decent healthcare to FT employees.

All three are companies who, imo, are at the top of their categories, and have low turnover for retail and food service. Not a coincidence, I bet.

What other big corporations provide decent healthcare to employees, especially PT staff? Those companies deserve our business, as much as the others deserve our boycott.

[hockeynut57]

1. ok, off to get a coffee, 500 lb. of dogfood, and some new furniture nt

[obamanut2012]

2. hahahaha I am going to Starbucks today

And IKEA on Saturday for a dresser, and will eat lunch there, too (no meatballs, as I'm a veg).

[hockeynut57]

3. ikea recently opened a factory in the u.s. too. another reason to be on my "places to buy stuff "

list

[Tree-Hugger]

8. Really?

A factory where they will manufacture stuff....right in the USA? One of my son's Hooofenpuffinloomborg (something like that) lamps said Made in the USA on it. I think that's the first time I have seen an American made item at Ikea. Love that store.

[hockeynut57]

11. yea like six months ago. it was cheaper to manufacture here than to ship from europe.

i'll try to find link to the story

[hockeynut57]

12. unfortunately there seems to be labor issues.

according too nathaniel popper of the la times

[Tree-Hugger]

14. Dammit! nt

[obamanut2012]

17. Not any more -- they are unionized now

[obamanut2012]

16. In VA, they mianly make Billy booncases

[Schema Thing]

15. weird coincidence! I'm going to do the exact same thing...

though there is no way in hell I can actually afford the coffee.

[leftyohiolib]

4. i was p.t. at u.p.s. and got benefits and 2 weeks of vaca - thanks to the teamsters

[Glassunion]

5. They have their shit together. It makes for good business.

If you look at the Fortune 500 "Best Companies to work for" lists. You will see that they all have 1 thing in common. They have happy employees AND they are profitable. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/best-companies/2012/full_list/

Not every company can afford pinball machines and bowling alleys (Google), but they all do take care of their employees in one way or another. Competative wages, perks, benefits, etc... and you end up with industry low turnover, in most cases exponential job growth (compared to the entire economy), and most of all; happy employees, who in turn make for happy and loyal customers. One thing smart CEOs know is that your customers build your brand. Your brand is not something created by a marketing team.

If you look at the list of companies, you will see that above all they have high employee satisfaction ratings. Then you will also see that they are for the most part adding employees by huge numbers in some cases.

I work for a company (not on the list because we did not take part in the survey), that embraces this type of culture. We pay higher than our competitors, we have amazing benefits and because of that we have industry low turnover. Our turnover is so low that in the industry we only lose 1 employee for every 20 to 30 that other companies in the industry lose. Also our logevity (length of service) on average is 9+ years. Personally, my little group of three (including myself) that I supervise has a combined 46 years of service in the company. This I think speaks volumes.

There is a line at the door to get in, and once in, you don't want to leave. We personally only had 3% in job growth recently, however in the coming year with our expansion plans we intend to add 7 to 10%.

[OneGrassRoot]

6. K&R n/t

[leftstreet]

7. Healthcare should not be tied to employment

Period

[kestrel91316]

10. + 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000

[bullwinkle428]

9. Good employers know that if you want to KEEP GOOD EMPLOYEES AROUND, you

need to treat them well!

[hockeynut57]

13. example-honda of america nt