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For many decades, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has compared the unionized to the non-unionized workforce by specific jobs. Thus, the unionized power plant engineers are compared with the non-unionized power plant engineers with respect to salaries, pensions, health insurance, job security, and other attributes of working life. Unionized workers came out better than non-unionized workers at the same jobs.
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Wallace, D., Wallace, R. (2018). What Unions Do for Workers. In: Right-to-Work Laws and the Crumbling of American Public Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72784-4_2
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