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Article: EBRI Report: Union Workers Have Higher Levels of Employment-Based Health Care Coverage.
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- May 21, 1999
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WASHINGTON, May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Nearly 94 percent of union workers ages 18 -- 64 had employment-based health care coverage, compared with 70 percent of nonunion workers, according to a new article by the nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute.
Further EBRI analysis of federal statistics gathered in March 1996 shows that union workers tended to be concentrated in jobs that were associated with higher levels of employment-based health care coverage. However, union workers were still uniformly found to have higher levels of health care coverage across the whole range of the examined job characteristics.
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