High Health Care Costs Eat into Union Bargaining
1st April 2008
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Leon in South Dakota says that the health insurance his union bargained for with his employer saved his life.
But with the non-stop, skyrocketing costs of health care, Kyle in Michigan says it is getting harder and harder for workers and their unions to maintain that kind of life-saving, employer-provided coverage.
Teresa in Washington State knows firsthand what increased health costs mean in her paycheck.
The three union workers are part of the 27,000 union and nonunion workers, insured and uninsured, old and young who took the AFL-CIO/Working America 2008 Health Care for America Survey. Like the three union workers, nearly 7,500 respondents shared stories about their personal experiences with the nation’s broken health care system.