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Unions Provide Higher Wages and Benefits

Submitted by Armand Biroonak
July 17, 2008

Wages for union workers are 30 percent higher than for non-union workers ($863 median weekly earnings vs. $663). Union workers are 63 percent more likely to have health insurance (78 percent of union workers have employer-provided health insurance vs. 49 percent of non-union workers). And union workers are four times more likely to have pensions.

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AFL-CIO, http://www.aflcio.org/joinaunion/why/uniondifference/
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Electrocuted at Age 22

By Tula Connell
May 5, 2008

Every day, most of us go to work and then come home. Next day: Rinse, repeat.

But some U.S. workers go to work and never come home.

In April 2005, Donald Wilcher Smith was one of them. The 22-year-old central Texas man was electrocuted at the Sanderson Farms processing plant. more »

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Colombia Trade Deal Is Derailed. Let's Keep It Off the Tracks

By Tula Connell
April 15, 2008

In August 2004, Hector Alino Martinez and three other Colombian trade unionists were dragged out of their homes and assassinated in the streets of Caño Seco. The men were among 96 unionists killed in Colombia that year. more »

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Unionization Improves Pay and Benefits of African Americans

By Dmitri Iglitzin
April 8, 2008

The increasing wealth gap between the rich, the middle class, and the poor has become too obvious too ignore. The top 10% of income earners in the United States now own 70% of the wealth, and the wealthiest 1% own more than the bottom 95%, according to the Federal Reserve. In 2005, the top 300,000 Americans enjoyed about the same share of the nation's income - 21.8% - as the bottom 150 million. more »

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Worker Ownership

Submitted by Michael Dewey
March 20, 2008

This Mondragon in the Basque Region of Spain, where the Workers do own the Banks, is now the 8th largest Company in all of Spain. The Unions could make it work here in the States, and time D.C. had the Brains to let let the Unions work out the details, on city, county and state levels.
http://www.justpeace.org/mondragon.htm

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http://http://www.justpeace.org/mondragon.htm
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Greedy Troglodytes Attack Teachers

By Tula Connell
March 14, 2008

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What is it about teachers that reactionaries don't like? more »

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Americans disapprove of employers conducting anti-union campaigns (67 percent disapprove, 36 percent strongly), an 11-point increase in opposition since 2001.

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Peter D. Hart Research Associates, “Employee Free Choice Act,” December 2006.

In December 2006 Hart Research surveyed 808 members of the general public and 382 union members and the strongest argument for supporting the Employee Free Choice Act was the following economic argument: “The legislation is expected to result in more workers being able to bargain with their employers for better wages, benefits, and working conditions.” 80% reason to support EFCA (7 % reason to more »

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Peter D. Hart Research Associates, “Employee Free Choice Act,” December 2006.

In December 2006 Hart Research surveyed 808 members of the general public and 382 union members.6 A 53 percent majority strongly agrees with the following message frame: "Working people are struggling to make ends meet today, and America is in danger of seeing the middle class disappear. more »

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Peter D. Hart Research Associates, “Employee Free Choice Act,” December 2006.
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