State Issue 2: What unions pay for health care
Here is a sampling of health-care premiums paid by local union members in the Akron area.• Akron Metropolitan Housing Authority — AFSCME local 3707: 7 percent for single, employee plus spouse, employee plus children; 6 percent, family.• Alliance City Schools — Alliance Education Association: 10 percent.• Barberton City Schools — AFSCME Local 26: 6.8 percent.• City of Canal Fulton — Teamsters Local 24: 15 percent.• Canton — Fraternal Order of Police: 15.8 percent.• Copley Township — Fraternal Order of Police: 3 percent.• Hudson — Utility Workers Union Local 588: 10 percent.• Jackson Township — Jackson Professional Firefighters: 5.6 percent of claims (township is self-insured).• Garfield (Portage County) local schools — Garfield Education Association: 5.7 percent of single plan, 12 percent of family plan.• Maplewood Career Center — Maplewood Classified Association: 5 percent.• Medina County District Library — Service Employees International Union: 15 percent.• City of Medina —Teamsters Local 436: 6.5 percent.• Stark County Building Department — AFSCME Local 959: 5 percent.• Stark County Dog Warden — General Truck Drivers and Helpers Union Local 92: 6 percent.• Summit County Board of Developmental Disabilities — Weaver Association II: 5 percent of single plan, 15 percent of family.• Summit County Children Services — Communications Workers of America Local 4546: 10 percent or 14 percent, depending on the plan.• Summit County Engineer — AFSCME (service and maintenance unit): 10 percent • Tallmadge — FOP: 7 percent• University of Akron — American Association of University Professors: 5 percent or 15 percent, depending on the plan.• Waterloo local schools — Waterloo Education Association: 10 percent.• Wooster City Schools — Wooster Education Association (support staff): 13 percent.Source: State Employment Relations Board, employers and unions
