Need Better Benefits? Join A Union

[Karmadillo]

http://www.zcommunications.org/need-better-benefits-join-a-union-by-dick-meister

Union members, as everyone knows – or should know – typically earn more than non-union workers doing the same job. And now comes the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) with a new report showing that unionized workers also have much better benefits than non-union workers.

An earlier BLS report on wages showed that union members average $4.95 an hour more than non-union workers doing the same work, a difference of nearly $10,000 a year.

The unionized workers' benefit advantage is also substantial. For instance: 93 percent have access to health insurance, whereas the percentage non-union workers with access is almost 25 percent lower. The report also shows that the unionized workers have lower co-pays for doctor visits, prescription drugs and other health care costs they share with employers.

The other health care advantages are many. Unionized workers on average pay 11 percent of their premiums for individual coverage, for instance, and 18 percent of their premiums for family coverage. The percentage non-union workers have to pay for individual coverage is almost double the percentage union workers pay for coverage, and triple the percentage unionists who pay to cover their families.

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[Jackpine Radical]

1. Unions are evil.

Every right-thinking American knows that unions exist only to steal crumbs from the mouths of the children of the deserving rich.

[jdlh8894]

2. How do you join a Union when you don't have a JOB?n/t

[Snotcicles]

3. Maybe you could go to the Union Hall of your trade and ask if they could help you find a job. nt

[burnsei sensei]

4. In the past, even unemployed workers organized.

They knew that not having a job didn't mean that you were not a worker or willing to work.
For the unemployed to organize would be a great thing.