{"id":529,"date":"2009-06-04T11:22:03","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T11:22:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:13:34","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:13:34","slug":"research-institute-finds-card-check-forced-unionism-threatens-job-based-private-health-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/research-institute-finds-card-check-forced-unionism-threatens-job-based-private-health-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Institute Finds \u2018Card-Check\u2019 Forced Unionism Threatens Job-Based Private Health Insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nilrr.org\/\">National Institute for Labor Relations Research<\/a> (NILRR) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nilrr.org\/files\/Card%20Checks%20Threaten%20Job-Based%20Health%20Insurance.pdf\">recently published<\/a> a fact sheet discussing U.S. Census Bureau data from 1999 to 2007 that shows the &quot;Card Check&quot; Forced Unionism Bill and similar legislative &quot;compromises&quot; actually endanger workers&#8217; access to health insurance.\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/files\/nrtw\/stethoscope.jpg\" vspace=\"4\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"8\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nAccording to NILRR&#8217;s observations:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n\t\tAs of 1999, according to economists Barry Hirsch and David Macpherson, 10.2% of private-sector employees nationwide were under \u201cexclusive\u201d union representation.\u00a0 In 10 states &#8212; Alaska, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Washington &#8212; 14% or more of private-sector employees were unionized. From 1999 to 2007, these states suffered an aggregate decline of 3.0%, or 1.44 million, in the number of people with private, job-based health insurance.\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tThe 22 states with 1999 private-sector unionization of between 7.0% and 13.9% also experienced an overall decline in access to job-based insurance, but the decline was substantially less<br \/>\n\t\tsevere. The employment-based insurance rolls in these states &#8212; Alabama, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota,<br \/>\n\t\tMissouri, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming &#8212; fell by 843,000, or 1.2%, from 1999 to 2007.\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tMeanwhile, the 18 states with 1999 private-sector unionization of no more than 6.9% &#8212; Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North<br \/>\n\t\tDakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont and Virginia &#8212; had a very different experience. These least-unionized states enjoyed an increase of 2.96 million, or 5.2%,<br \/>\n\t\tin the number of people with job-based private health insurance.\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nNILRR <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nilrr.org\/files\/Card%20Checks%20Threaten%20Job-Based%20Health%20Insurance.pdf\">sums up<\/a> their findings by stating, &quot;there is a strong negative correlation between the growth in the ranks of the privately insured within a state and the share of its private-sector employees who are subject to union monopoly bargaining.&quot;\u00a0 In other words, in states where union bosses are more likely to hold their grasp on private-sector workers in the workplace by claiming monopoly bargaining privileges over them, the more likely the number of those employees and their families receiving private health insurance from their employer will decrease &#8212; i.e. forced unionism threatens workers&#8217; access to private-sector job-based health insurance.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\nEnter Big Labor&#8217;s latest compulsory-dues power grab: card check forced unionism.\u00a0 Card check forced unionism (and similar legislative &quot;compromises&quot; being floated in the U.S. Senate right now) intends to help Big Labor herd more workers into compulsory unionism by <a href=\"\/en\/blog\/card-check-does-eliminate-secret-ballot-03182009\">making it easier<\/a> for union bosses to use <a href=\"\/en\/blog\/big-labors-press-gangs-3242009\">coercion<\/a> and <a href=\"\/en\/blog\/card-check-intimidation-03262609\">intimidation<\/a> to claim monopoly-bargaining power over millions of additional workers.\u00a0 However, NILRR&#8217;s research illustrates that President Barack Obama and Congressional compulsory unionism advocates are working steadily to sell out not only workers&#8217; rights &#8212; but also their well-being &#8212; <a href=\"\/en\/blog\/obamas-budget-undercuts-dol-union-watchdog-05082009\">to continue<\/a> to <a href=\"\/en\/blog\/video-new-administration-02272009\">dole out<\/a> <a href=\"\/en\/blog\/obamas-budget-undercuts-dol-union-watchdog-05082009\">paybacks<\/a> for Big Labor&#8217;s political support.<\/p>\n<p>For more on NILRR&#8217;s findings, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nilrr.org\/files\/Card%20Checks%20Threaten%20Job-Based%20Health%20Insurance.pdf\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nilrr.org\/\">National Institute for Labor Relations Research<\/a> (NILRR) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nilrr.org\/files\/Card%20Checks%20Threaten%20Job-Based%20Health%20Insurance.pdf\">recently published<\/a> a fact sheet discussing U.S. Census Bureau data from 1999 to 2007 that shows the &quot;Card Check&quot; Forced Unionism Bill and similar legislative &quot;compromises&quot; actually endanger workers&#8217; access to health insurance.\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/files\/nrtw\/stethoscope.jpg\" vspace=\"4\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"8\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nAccording to NILRR&#8217;s observations:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[889],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Research Institute Finds \u2018Card-Check\u2019 Forced Unionism Threatens Job-Based Private Health Insurance - National Right to Work Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/research-institute-finds-card-check-forced-unionism-threatens-job-based-private-health-insurance\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Research Institute Finds \u2018Card-Check\u2019 Forced Unionism Threatens Job-Based Private Health Insurance - National Right to Work Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The National Institute for Labor Relations Research (NILRR) recently published a fact sheet discussing U.S. Census Bureau data from 1999 to 2007 that shows the &quot;Card Check&quot; Forced Unionism Bill and similar legislative &quot;compromises&quot; actually endanger workers&#039; access to health insurance.       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