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	UFCW \| Women in the Retail Food Industry: The Union Advantage
		Unionized women workers in the retail food industry are more than twice as likely than nonunion women workers to have health insurance.
		Unionized women workers in the retail food industry are more than twice as likely to receive a pension than nonunion women.
		Unionized part-time women workers in the retail food industry are more than three times as likely to receive a pension than similar nonunion women.
	www.ufcw.org /get_a_union/ufcw_works_for_you/equal_pay/wagespensionsbenefit.cfm (287 words)

	The Daily, Thursday, September 26, 2002. Union wage premium
		Unionized workers earned about 8% more than their non-unionized counterparts in 1999, according to a new study that investigates the wage gap between the two groups.
		Unionized workers spent on average nine years with their employers, compared with six years for non-unionized workers, and were more likely to be production, professional or technical workers than managerial or clerical workers.
		Unionized workers were more likely to come from primary manufacturing, communications and utilities, and education and health care industries.
	www.statcan.ca /Daily/English/020926/d020926i.htm (427 words)

	Differences in Union and Nonunion Earnings in Blue-collar and Service Occupations
		The higher rate of unionization in the NCS sample may be due to the exclusion of establishments with fewer than 50 employees, which tend to have lower unionization rates than do larger establishments.
		Unionized workers in this group had average hourly earnings of $15.62, with a range of $9.38 to $24.33, while their nonunion counterparts had average hourly earnings of $11.65, with a range of $6.47 to $17.48.
		Unionized stock handlers and baggers and unionized laborers, except construction, not elsewhere classified, in both the private and public sectors enjoyed a wage advantage over their nonunion counterparts.
	www.bls.gov /opub/cwc/cm20030623ar01p1.htm (4168 words)

	Article Archives
		At first glance, it seems that facilities with a unionized staff may be more susceptible to cost-cutting measures such as outsourcing, a cyclical trend in the cleaning maintenance industry that is now on the rise.
		The typical established unionized worker on an in-house cleaning staff received a 2.2 percent raise during the same period, while a nonunionized counterpart got a 2.5 percent pay increase.
		Unionized shift supervisors saw an average increase of 2.9 percent.
	www.cmmonline.com /article.asp?IndexID=2351014 (473 words)

	Boston.com / News / Local / Vt. / Unionized workers at Vermont Yankee could strike in two weeks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Unionized workers at Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee have authorized a strike to begin in less than two weeks, which the head of the union says could affect the plant's safety.
		Daniels said Friday night that if the Vernon plant's 148 unionized workers strike, the plant will be at a loss because outside workers don't know the plant like they do.
		Williams said strike authorizations are a normal part of the negotiation process and the plant looks forward to coming to an agreement with the unionized workers.
	www.boston.com /news/local/vermont/articles/2004/08/07/unionized_workers_at_vermont_yankee_could_strike_in_two_weeks (474 words)

	Collective bargaining and flexibility: ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This is particularly so in the case of unionized organizations, with a 13 percentage point decrease in the number of organizations using this form of flexibility.
		Perhaps the most surprising result is the substantial increase in the number of non-union organizations using part-time work in the three years from 1992 to 1995, with an increase from 39 per cent to 73 per cent taking place.
		The limited penetration of profit sharing in unionized companies is significant, as a dispute has arisen within the terms of the Partnership 2000 agreement (described in Part II and especially in table 2.2) on the extension of profit-sharing through local negotiations.
	www.ilo.org /public/english/dialogue/govlab/legrel/papers/ireland/2_5.htm (1026 words)

	Labor Needs To Go To Its Strength (Jan. 27, 1997) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Education, where 35.1% of workers are unionized, driven by the 45.2% of workers in elementary and secondary schools that are in unions.
		Here, 32.1% of the work force is unionized, led by the 44.9% of public safety workers (police, fire, etc.) in unions, along with the 30.3% of staffers in government human resource programs.
		In steel, 50.1% of blast furnace and mill workers are unionized, and in auto, union density is 44.8%.
	www.laborresearch.org /story2.php/164 (615 words)

	The Daily, Thursday, August 29, 2002. Unionization and fringe benefits
		Workers in unionized jobs were almost twice as likely as their non-unionized counterparts to be covered in each of the three plans.
		The gap was even wider in terms of pension plan coverage, where 80% of unionized employees had such a plan, compared with only 27% of non-unionized employees.
		For unionized workers, the chances of being covered were fairly close in both the public and private sectors.
	www.statcan.ca /Daily/English/020829/d020829j.htm (340 words)

	Saskabush - Government Employees End Strike (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		REGINA (SBP) -- Talks between the government and 10,000 of the province's estimated 1million government unionized employees came to a head this past week and an agreement was reached.
		The deal keeps the unionized employees from being unemployed on the picket lines to not working at their various jobs.
		The unionized employee went on to say that she would have missed out "on a lot of visiting" had she been forced to take time off for worker's compensation.
	www.saskabush.com /2001/0706/index.shtml (487 words)

	How Unions Help page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		For example, a high school graduate whose workplace is not unionized but whose industry is 25% unionized is paid 5% more than similar workers in less unionized industries.
		Unionized worker are more likely than their nonunionized counterparts to receive paid leave, are approximately 18% to 28% more likely to have employer-provided health insurance, and are 23% to 54% more likely to be in employer-provided pension plans.
		In retirement, unionized workers are 24% more likely to be covered by health insurance paid for by their employer.
	www.speea.org /midwest/decert/how_unions_help_page.htm (321 words)

	Report finds unions help all workers
		Unions have a substantial impact on the compensation and work lives of both unionized and non-unionized workers, according to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute.
		Unionized workers are more likely than their nonunionized counterparts to receive paid leave, are approximately 18 percent to 28 percent more likely to have employer-provided health insurance, and are 23 percent to 54 percent more likely to be in employer-provided pension plans.
		In retirement, unionized workers are 24 percent more likely to be covered by health insurance paid for by their employer.
	salt.claretianpubs.org /sjnews/2003/09/sjn0309b.html (433 words)

	UAW AtIssue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Foremost, is the “union threat effect.” Non-union employers, especially in highly unionized industries, often adopt union pay and benefits to prevent possible unionization in the future.
		For example, a high school graduate whose workplace is not unionized but whose industry is 25 percent unionized is paid 5 percent more than similar workers in less unionized industries.
		Unionized workers are also more likely to exercise their “walkaround” rights (accompanying an OSHA inspector to point out potential problems and violations).
	www.uaw.org /atissue/atstory.cfm?atId=47 (910 words)

	Performance Effects of Options in "New Economy" and Unionized Companies
		Unionized stock option companies also perform better than non-stock option companies, but not differently than stock option companies without unions.
		The authors were not able to determine what percentage of these companies covered their union employees (some companies might still meet the criteria for covering most of their full-time employees with options if they excluded a union that represented a minority of workers).
		Both unionized and non-unionized stock option companies generally perform better than non-stock option companies on economic performance measures and are not readily distinguishable based on changes in total shareholder return.
	www.nceo.org /library/option_corpperf_neweconomy.html (858 words)

	Review -- Managed Professionals: Unionized Faculty and Restructuring Academic Labor, Gary Rhoades (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		We rarely see such a comprehensive study of union policies and practices in the literature on higher education, which tends to ignore unions or construct them as a potential threat or impediment; it is rarer still to see a researcher analyze the balance between "professional autonomy" and "managerial discretion" in such contracts.
		Clearly, unionized campuses are a significant component of American higher education and, as Rhoades contends, all too often they are an ignored feature in the scholarship on higher education.
		Rhoades' analysis of union contractual provisions on intellectual property proves "counterintuitive" to what many perceive to be the case: he finds that faculty at unionized four-year institutions have less ownership of their intellectual property than faculty at unionized two-year institutions, an apparent anomaly that he accounts for in intriguing ways.
	jac.gsu.edu /jac/20.1/Reviews/7.htm (1353 words)

	Phillips Curve, by Kevin D. Hoover: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Library of Economics and Liberty
		One explanation for hysteresis in a heavily unionized economy is that unions directly represent the interests only of those who are currently employed.
		Unionization undermines the ability of those outside the union to compete for employment.
		The downside to the hysteresis hypothesis is that once unemployment becomes high—as it did in Europe in the recessions of the seventies—it is relatively impervious to monetary and fiscal stimulus, even in the short run.
	www.econlib.org /library/Enc/PhillipsCurve.html (2104 words)

	TheStreet.com: Talks between ECI management and unionized workers collapse
		1/1/01 6:44 AM ET Seven hundred unionized workers at ECI Telecom (Nasdaq:ECIL) are holding a protest vigil outside the office of ECI chief executive Doron Inbar.
		In their meeting today, ECI's management demanded that the labor representatives consent to the dismissal of 120 workers among the unionized staff.
		Labor representative Haim Ben Shlush said ECI meant to fire all the unionized workers as part of its reorganization into five companies, while retaining its workers employed via personal employment contracts.
	www.thestreet.com /tech/themarker/1234100.html (297 words)

	AEI - Short Publications
		Since unions increase wages, unionized companies could, in theory, automate their way to lower costs and thereby at least partly overcome the higher costs of union wages.
		Alternatively, unionized companies have been accused of acquiring nonunion firms to get around higher wages and union work rules: If your plant in Massachusetts organizes, buy a firm that operates in Mississippi, and threaten to transfer work to the Southern plant the next time you bargain with the Massachusetts union.
		If a unionized company thinks about acquiring a nonunionized convenience store, it will worry that its union will spread to the new store--so that, shortly after the company has paid $1 million for the new store, its value would go down.
	www.aei.org /publications/filter.all,pubID.9313/pub_detail.asp (982 words)

	Union wage premium - Stats Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In 1999, the average unionized worker earned $20.36 per hour while the average non-unionized worker earned $17.82, an overall union wage premium of 14.3%.
		For example, unionized workers were somewhat better educated: more had trade school education (15% versus 11%) or undergraduate or higher education (21% versus 18%).
		Unionized workers were more likely to be in primary manufacturing, communications and utilities, or education and health-care industries.
	www.pssp.on.ca /articlearchive/unionpremstats110402.html (209 words)

	unionized vs nonunionized - allnurses.com Nursing for Nurses
		I prefer unionized, but have to say a union is only as effective as its ACTIVE members make it.
		I like to think that it is possible to have collective bargaining and unionization without nurturing the devlopment of those kinds of feelings.
		Nurses who are unionized have higher pay, better benefits, and more control over their workplace and working conditions.
	allnurses.com /forums/showthread.php?t=44372 (2352 words)

	CUPW - 2001-01-24 - Do Union Members Earn More? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Unionized female workers earn $5.53 an hour more than those who are not unionized.
		For unionized female workers with a part time job, unionisation is even better.
		In 2002, non unionized female workers earned an average of $10.89 per hour, whereas unionized female workers earned, for the same period, an average of $18.14 per hour, a difference of $7.25 per hour.
	www.cupw.ca /pages/printable_doc_eng.php?Doc_ID=7 (148 words)

	KKK&S Management's Perspective on Unionized Hotel Restaurants
		Unionized hotel restaurants pay combined wage and benefit packages that are substantially higher than their competitors.
		Unionized hotels themselves will, in my opinion, become less competitive overall vis a vis non-union hotels if this trend in restaurants continues, and this will inevitably impact the rest of the workers in these hotels.
		They believe that what money made in unionized hotel restaurants gets consumed by too many classifications, too many restrictions on what workers and managers can do in meeting the customers' needs, and by wage and benefit costs that are too high to allow them to compete.
	www.kkks.com /Speech/June18.html (2888 words)

	Nonprofit Sector Research Fund - What's New
		The researchers found that both those in favor of and against unionization rooted their arguments in the assumption that nonprofits are or should be fundamentally different from for-profit or public sector institutions.
		Staff working in nonprofits with political missions tended to see their unionization as fitting into the larger political objectives of the organization, whether they discussed their unionization as a response to the increasing privatization of government services or as setting an example for other nonprofits.
		While it is unclear whether unionization will result in different programming or in less discrimination within organizations, interviewees consistently commented on the ways racial tension and discrimination emerged during the course of union drives as a source of further bad feelings between pro- and anti-unionization elements of the organization.
	www.nonprofitresearch.org /newsletter1525/newsletter_show.htm?doc_id=18932 (1900 words)

	Health Care Marketplace \| Unionized Employees at Seattle HMO Strike Over Proposed Increase in Their Health Insurance ...
		About 1,700 unionized employees of Seattle-based Group Health Cooperative on Monday began a five-day strike to protest a proposed increase in employees' health insurance premiums, the
		Unionized employees said they will not strike at the Group Health Eastside Hospital in Redmond -- Group Health's only inpatient facility -- "to minimize inconvenience to patients," according to the
		About one third of unionized employees intend to cross the picket line and report to work, according to Scott Armstrong, chief operating officer for Group Health.
	www.kaisernetwork.org /daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=25409 (466 words)

	Automotive Parts Manufacturers' Association : 2002-46 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		An employer is responsible for distributing the decertification document only to those employees who are unionized, and for posting the document in workplaces where unionized employees work.
		employers whose only unionized employees are not subject to the LRA generally or do not have the right to make an application to decertify their union under the LRA.
		The purpose of the poster/brochure is to inform the applicable unionized employees about their right to decide whether they want to continue to be represented by a union and about the decertification process in general.
	www.apma.ca /client/APMA/APMA.nsf/web/2002-46!OpenDocument (670 words)

	OSHA DATA Regulatory Compliance History Information Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Results indicated that unionized establishments had 21% complaint inspections; 60% complaint inspections with no willful, repeat or serious violations uncovered; and 35% complaint inspections with no violations of any kind.
		In fact, it can be argued that unionized establishments should actually have either fewer complaint inspections or when complaint inspections are performed, at least some violations should be uncovered.
		When unionized or non-unionized employees file unfounded formal complaints with OSHA, while fighting in their own best interest, they do a grave disservice to all employees and taxpayers nationwide.
	www.oshadata.com /fssy.htm (685 words)

	Los Angeles Business Journal: Kaiser applauds deal with unionized workers: some say pact has caused a split within union
		While Kaiser Permanente officials say they are happy with the recent settlement they reached with their unionized employees, the Service Employees International Union claims it had no alternative but to agree to the health plan's terms.
		It will freeze the wages of Kaiser's 10,000 unionized employees in Southern California until the end of next year while the starting wages of new hires could be sliced by more than 25 percent in some instances.
		Health care industry observers agree that Kaiser's unionized workers - who earn an average of $14 an hour - are overpaid, in some instances as much as 40 percent compared to similar positions at non-unionized hospitals.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m5072/is_n29_v18/ai_18638598 (782 words)

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