Tag: health insurance
A 1970 contract negotiation between GE and its unionized workforce is unimaginable today. A strike then slowed production for months at 135 factories around the country. With inflation running at 6 percent annually, the company offered pay raises of 3 percent to 5 percent a year for three years. The union rejected the offer, and a federa…
Teachers receive less than college educated workers in the private sector and many lack Social Security coverage. Teacher protests in Arizona, Kentucky, Oklahoma, and West Virginia made me look back to a 2011 study on the relative compensation of public and private sector employees. Our conclusion at the time was that, on average, workers in…
