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In Minnesota, construction workers are productive, high-skilled, and well-paid. Over 30 percent of these workers are members of a union. To maintain and increase membership, trade unions in Minnesota must continually demonstrate how workers benefit from contributing dues.<\/p>\n
An analysis by the Midwest Economic Policy Institute (MEPI), The Impact of Construction Dues in Minnesota: An Organizational and Individual-Level Analysis [PDF], finds that construction unions in Minnesota offer many positive benefits to members:<\/p>\n
Union membership increases the after-tax income of construction workers by $7,720 annually;
\nUnions increase construction worker health insurance coverage by 13.1 percentage points;
\nMinnesota’s construction unions spend 75.5 percent of dues and fees on bargaining and representation;
\nOnly 1.4 percent of all membership dues and fees collected by construction unions in Minnesota are spent on political activities and lobbying \u2013 or $17.47 annually per member; and
\nFor every $1 paid in dues and fees, an estimated $5.59 is returned to members in the construction industry in after-tax income.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Source URL: https:\/\/midwestepi.org\/2016\/08\/16\/unionized-construction-workers-get-back-5-59-for-every-dollar-paid-in-dues\/?blogsub=confirmed#blog_subscription-5 Photo Credit: Flickr In Minnesota, construction workers are productive, high-skilled, and well-paid. Over 30 percent of these workers are members of a union. To maintain and increase membership, trade unions in Minnesota must continually demonstrate how workers benefit from contributing dues. An analysis by the Midwest Economic Policy Institute (MEPI), The Impact […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.semnbctrades.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.semnbctrades.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.semnbctrades.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.semnbctrades.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.semnbctrades.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.semnbctrades.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.semnbctrades.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.semnbctrades.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.semnbctrades.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.semnbctrades.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}