Labor Movement: Union Advantage For Benefits Grows Wider
For years, employers have been canceling benefit coverage and shifting more of the remaining costs to workers. Unions have been able to fight off this employer attack on benefits, but nonunion workers have been left with inadequate health care protections and no retirement security... The value of the benefits that union workers receive is double the value for nonunion workers.
Change to Win Unions Plan to Spend $750 Million on Organizing
The unions in the new Change to Win federation plan to spend at least $750 million on organizing during the next 12 months, their leaders said during the group’s founding convention in St. Louis on Sept. 27...The Change to Win federation will also use its power to enforce its member unions to work together on joint efforts, through coordinating committees, with one committee for each of 17 industrial sectors it identified.
