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The union advantage

• Union workers are 52 percent more likely to have job-provided health care than nonunion workers.
  
  
• Union members are three times more likely than nonmembers to have traditional pensions with guaranteed payments based upon years of service and income.
  
  
• Union workers are 50 percent more likely to have paid personal leave, and they typically get three more days a year of paid vacation than nonunion workers.
  
  
• The weekly median pay of union workers ($886) is 28 percent higher than the weekly median earnings of nonunion workers ($691).
  
  
• The union advantage for pay is 43 percent for Latinos in unions, 28 percent for African Americans and 6 percent for Asian Americans.
  
  
• The median earnings of unionized women are 32 percent higher than the pay of non-union women workers.

Sources: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics; Economic Policy Insti- tute; Employee Benefits Research Institute.