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Unions Have a Big Stake in Winning Single-Payer
Currently, nonunion employers undercut union ones by avoiding health care coverage. Ending this unfair advantage will be, like prevailing wage law, a crucial step for progress.
With single payer, unions’ ability to win contract struggles will be enhanced. Now, for many unions, health coverage ends within 30 days of a work stoppage or lockout, placing outrageous pressure on workers to settle for less. With single payer, health coverage never ends.
With single payer in effect, unions, including those with multiemployer plans, can use their health care bargaining power to improve pensions, sick pay, and other benefits as well as wages. Snip more at [link:http://|]http://www.pnhp.org/news/2014/august/unions-can-lead-the-struggle-for-single-payer-health-care