Average annual pay difference is 18% better

in collective-bargaining than in right-to-work states, according to the BLS. On the other hand, on-the-job fatalities are 17% higher in right-to-work states.

Employer-provided healthcare? 89% of union shops have it; 67% of non-union

Fully-paid-for family coverage? 33% vs 7%

Dental? 73% vs 43%

Family-coverage monthly co-pay? $195 vs $273

Defined-benefit (as opposed to defined contrib)? 70% vs 16%

Paid vacation days with 20 years? 22.3 vs 18.1

Fiscal 2004 wage rises? 3% vs 2.5%

Overall package increase in '04? 5.8% vs 3.4%


Solidarity forever! The union makes us strong!

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More tit-bits:

75% of those without healthcare are members of a family with at least 1 full-time worker. 20% are in a family with 2 full-time workers.

Almost 29M of the 46M without health insurance in 2002 had household incomes of $25K or more. In 2002 the federal poverty line was 18.85K

Nearly 18K people die each year because they couldn't afford to get early treatment.

75% of uninsured adults simply can't afford it.


(Info courtesy of Solidarity, the UAW members' journal)

These facts shouldn't surprise anyone here.

Another tidbit: women's wages are equal to men's for the same work in only two kinds of jobs - government jobs and union shops.

Thanks for posting that!