Posted on 06/11/2012 3:03:40 PM PDT by mdittmar
Its a fact: If youre a union member you have better wages, benefits and working conditionsalong with a voice at work. But a new Duke University study suggests that labor unions also are good for your health.
The research finds that more unionized U.S. workers consider themselves healthy than do their nonunion counterparts, an indication that membership is good for the body as well as the paycheck, said David Brady, a Duke sociology professor and co-author of the study.
We can say that not only are unions better for your wages, theyre good for your health.
The study found that 85 percent of union workers reported being in good health, compared with 82 percent of nonunion workers. In real numbers, that 3 percent gap represents 3.7 million American workers.
Three percent may not seem like a lot, said Megan Reynolds, a Duke doctoral student and lead author of the study.
But when you start looking at the number of workers in the United States, thats a lot of people.
Im no expert, but heres a stab at the underlying reasons: a better paycheck and benefits help hold off the anxiety that comes with trying to pay rent and feed a family on basement-level wages. Decent employer-paid health insurance means youre seeing the doctor when needed. Paid vacation means your body and soul are getting a rest now and then. Grievance procedures and increased job security help you breathe a bit easier.
The Duke study appears in the latest issue of Social Forces and examines survey results of more than 11,000 full-time workers, both union and nonunion, who answered questions about their general health. The data is from the General Social Survey, a massive effort of the National Opinion Research Center providing more than three decades of data.
Brady and Reynolds culled the data to compare workers with largely similar characteristics aside from their union membership. They believe this is the first study to do so and illustrates that union membership is another factorlike age, education level and marital statusthat affects a persons health.
yep!
notice in the pictures showing unionites how fat and slopy they are?
which has no bearing on whether they are or are not more health - they just feel healthier
A real study would give them all physicals and give a matched number of non-union members physicals and see who is really "healthy"
And how in the heck are they operationaling "health"???? How do you know that i'm healthy and someone else isn't???
My Mom says put a dead fish under the seat of a union officials car.
Well, I guess you got a great boss then. I’m topped out at 3 weeks, I could work here forever, and that’s all I’m getting.
Well,you are doing better than most,hard workers always do.
True, true. I’m not complaining.
and how many are out of work now? Non gubmint union members that is
They found union membership healthier?
Sort of defines the mentality of the groupthink of the inept bullies.
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