Being In A Union Could Literally Save Your Life

If you were in a nursing union at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic you were 10% less likely to die from the virus. Being in a union could literally save your life.

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During the pandemic, I worked with a team of researchers to study a couple different Industries. so the most important one probably was nursing homes. Which was the epicenter of the virus for the first you know for a year and a half. If you had a union in your nursing home residents there were about 10 percent less likely to die of covid than if there was no union. Workers were about eight percent less likely to be infected by the virus if they had a union. You know and partially in other words those are real material things you know. like we're talking fewer deaths. So in other words, if you extrapolate those numbers out and imagine the entire industry being unionized that saves about 8,000 excess deaths. And all those people have family friends and loved ones whose effect ripples out too. The reason was to some extent simple, like workers having a voice on the job. And workers can have better access to PPE. Like throughout the pandemic, unionized workers have better access to masks and gloves and eye Shields and gowns. I talked to nursing home workers who were using umbrellas and old raincoats for PPE without a union. That stuff was not common when you had protection. So nursing home workers you know went on strike. Walkouts held protests and those things you know to build up your power build up your voice on a job. and it makes a big difference. So it's no shock that in terms of where labor stood from an organizing perspective, it was let's take covid seriously as opposed to the management or the boss position of getting back to normal.