Cox News Service: Business forges unusual alliances
New coalitions lobby Congress on health care, environment, minimum wage.
By Marilyn Geewax
Cox News Service, 2/14/07
WASHINGTON - As partisanship chills the cooperative mood the new Congress enjoyed in its first weeks, frustrated business executives are working in unusual coalitions with labor leaders and environmentalists to push for compromises.
Consider a few recent examples:
- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. CEO Lee Scott this month joined one of his harshest critics, Service Employees International Union president Andrew Stern, in announcing they would press Congress to develop a system to provide low-cost health coverage for all Americans...