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A new report by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) details the difference collective
bargaining can make in workers' lives. According to a Voice@Work update:
Eighty-eight percent of private-sector union workers have access to retirement benefits
through their jobs, compared with only 56 percent of non-union workers.
Seventy-three percent of union workers have access to defined-benefit pension plans,
compared with 16 percent of nonunion workers.
Ninety-two percent of union workers have access to job-based health care benefits,
compared with 68 percent of non-union workers.
Seventy-three percent of union workers have access to job-provided dental care, 57 percent
have vision care and 87 percent have prescription drug coverage, compared with 43 percent, 26
percent and 61 percent among non-union workers, respectively.
Nonunion workers' required health insurance premiums were over $1,000 more per year
than what union workers had to contribute, on average.
Union workers also are more likely than non-union workers to have access to job-based life
insurance (65 percent vs. 50 percent) and short-term disability benefits (67 percent vs. 37
percent).
Eighty-seven percent of union members have access to paid holidays and 86 percent had
paid vacations, compared with 75 percent and 77 percent of non-union workers,
respectively.
Fifty-eight percent of union workers are offered education benefits, compared with 48
percent of nonunion workers.
To download the full report, log on to the
Voice@Work PrivateNet website.
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