companies with a union contract

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    pensionFERS defined-benefit pension through the federal retirement program (eligibility by age and years of creditable service), alongside the Thrift Savings Planunion contract91% of Postal Service employees are covered by collective bargaining agreements; the workforce is primarily represented by the APWU, NALC, NPMHU and NRLCA (FY2025 Form 10-K)shift differentialNight differential for hours worked between 6:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m., at a flat dollar rate set by pay grade and step in the APWU National Agreement (Article 8 Section 7)
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    pensionAustin Police Retirement System. Pension at a minimum of 25 years of service and age 50; benefit is years of service x a 2.5% multiplier of base salary, with no maximum cap (25 years = 62.5%, 30 years = 75%).union contractMeet and Confer Agreement between the City of Austin and the Austin Police Association, effective 29 October 2024 to 30 September 2029.promoted from withinPublished rank pay ladder from Police Officer to Commander, plus non-patrol specialist units (Air Support, Lake Patrol, Mounted Patrol, Special Operations, Police Technology).paid trainingCadets are paid at a $67,000 a year rate during roughly eight months of academy training (Monday to Friday, 7am-4pm, not residential), then $78,627 on graduation, followed by a 12-week field training programme. Health, dental and retirement benefits start on day one of the academy.shift differential$3,600 to $4,200 a year for evening or night shifts, paid in 12 monthly installments.
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    pension28 multiemployer union pension plans, plus company-sponsored defined benefit plans for some employeesunion contractUFCW and other unions; about 190,000 of roughly 280,000 associates covered by collective bargaining agreementsshift differentialUFCW 3000 contract, King/Snohomish Co. WA: +50¢/hr between 9 P.M. and 6 A.M., +20¢/hr 6, 9 P.M., +$1.00/hr Sundaysschedule protectionUFCW 3000 contract, King/Snohomish Co. WA: schedule posted by 6:00 P.M. Tuesday before the workweek; 35¢/hr premium for hours worked past the posted schedule
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    pensionCLOSED TO NEW HIRES. The ATU Local 1001 defined benefit Pension Plan covers full-time and part-time represented employees hired BEFORE 1 January 2023; anyone hired on or after that date gets a Defined Contribution plan instead. For those still in the DB plan the benefit multiplier is 2.5%, sick and vacation pay counts in final average earnings, maximum credited service is 30 years, and participants contribute 5% of wages. RTD contributes $21m a year to the pension trust and guarantees benefit payments. Source: RTD/ATU Local 1001 collective bargaining agreement, published by RTD.union contractOperations and maintenance employees are represented by Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1001, whose full collective bargaining agreement with RTD is published on RTD's careers site; transit police are represented by the FOP under a separate published agreement.paid trainingAll training is paid under the ATU Local 1001 contract: operators relieved from a regular assignment to attend training are paid their run pay, everyone else their straight-time rate, and employees cannot be mandated to train on days off. Service Persons and Service/Vault Pullers may request CDL training in writing at any time and RTD must start it within 60 days; holding the CDL then pays a $1.00/hour premium. Initial operator training rate is not published. No repayment or clawback clause appears in the agreement.shift differentialSCOPED: the $2.25/hour evening (3pm-11pm) and $2.75/hour night (11pm-4am) shift premiums in the ATU Local 1001 contract EXCLUDE Operations Group employees, i.e. bus and rail operators do not get them. What operators do get is a split shift premium of $2.00/hour for all hours of a split run, plus a $2.00/hour extra work incentive ($3.00 in overtime status). Non-operations staff who work a split shift get $0.45/hour.schedule protectionWork is allocated by seniority. Extra Board operators can take a weekly hold-down assignment by seniority instead of daily assignments; hold-downs are posted noon Wednesday to noon Friday for the following week, and a driver who does not vote goes back on the rotating extra board. Maintenance divisions hold a system-wide job pick every two years, with 30 days' notice of the job matrix and seniority list.
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    hours a week to qualify20 hours a week and 90 days of service to qualify for tuition and continuing-education reimbursement (Coalition-represented employees)pensionReal defined-benefit pension plans for Coalition-union-represented employees, with a final-average-pay multiplier of 1.45% applied to all years of service (higher in some bargaining units)union contractCoalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, 2023-2027 national agreement (effective Oct 1 2023 to Sep 30 2027), covering employees represented by 11 local unionsbenefits while part-timeyes
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    pensionCulinary Union pension, paid for entirely by the employer at no cost to the worker, for Culinary Local 226 members at MGM's unionized Las Vegas propertiesunion contractCollective bargaining agreements cover about 37,000 of MGM's US employees; Las Vegas Strip hospitality workers are represented by Culinary Workers Union Local 226 and Bartenders Local 165benefits while part-timeyes
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    Boeing
    Arlington
    degree paid upfrontLearning Together: select STEM degrees and certificate courses fully funded, and Boeing pays the institution directly so nothing comes out of pocketpension$105 pension multiplier per year of service, maintained in the 2024 IAM contract only for employees already vested in the pension plan; other members get 401(k) contributions insteadunion contractIAM Districts 751 and W24 represent 33,000 frontline Boeing workers; the 2024 contract carries a 43.65% compounded wage increase over four years
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    pensionBus/Light Rail Operators participate in a defined benefit pension plan plus a 457(b) deferred compensation plan. Formula not published in the posting.union contractSEPTA posts jobs with the bargaining unit in the job title itself - for example Communications Maintainer Specialist (2560) is posted as RRD/IBEW, Regional Railroad division under the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. SEPTA's city bus and subway operators are represented by TWU Local 234.promoted from withinSkilled-trade entry is possible without prior rail experience and SEPTA trains you into the licence: the Communications Maintainer Specialist must obtain a CDL learner's permit within 30 days of employment and pass the CDL test within 120 days, after SEPTA's training. Several SEPTA maintenance postings are explicitly marked 'Rail exp. not required'.paid trainingBus/Light Rail Operator training is paid. Applicants without a CDL must obtain a CDL permit (preferably Class B) before their start date; the full Class A/B CDL with passenger and air-brake endorsement is required at offer. No repayment or clawback clause appears in the posting.schedule protectionBus/Light Rail Operators must be available for all shifts - nights, weekends, holidays and split days off - especially in the first two years of employment, when seniority is lowest. A guaranteed 40 hours a week applies only if physically working. Honest negative: new operators do not choose their schedule.
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    pensionRailroad Retirement, the federal system that replaces Social Security for rail workers: a career rail retiree averaged $4,565 a month in FY2025, against $1,985 under Social Securityunion contract13 major rail unions represent about 83% of the workforce; agreements are bargained under the Railway Labor Act and reopened every five yearsdisabilityyesretention89% employee retention rate in 2025, as reported in the company's own 10-Klife insuranceyes
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    hours a week to qualifyMore than 20 hours a week is the line: DOE employees above it can pick from several health insurance plans, some with NO employee contribution at all, plus dental, vision, prescription cover and retiree health benefits. School kitchen posts are advertised as part-time employment WITH full benefits. Day-to-day substitute paraprofessionals, by contrast, are paid per day and get no benefits.degree paid upfrontThe Career Training Program gives eligible full-time paraprofessionals tuition assistance, and full-time paraprofessionals can get paid release time for college study, the paraprofessional-to-teacher route.pensionFood service workers and other non-teaching DOE staff are in the Board of Education Retirement System (BERS), the city's defined benefit plan for non-pedagogical school employees. It does not replace Social Security, New York City school employees pay into both. Full-time paraprofessionals also get a pension, plus health insurance and paid leave.union contractParaprofessionals, including substitute paraprofessionals, are represented by the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), and the substitute day rate is contractual.benefits while part-timeyes
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    pensionNO DEFINED BENEFIT PENSION for new hires. Newly hired full-time union and non-union employees get a 457(b) deferred compensation plan and a 401(a) defined contribution plan, both administered by Empower. METRO auto-contributes 4% of salary to the 401(a) and matches 457(b) contributions up to a further 4% into the 401(a). Vesting: 40% at 2 years rising to 100% at 5, and you must work at least 1,000 hours a year. Union employees can retire at 60 with five years vested service or at any age with 28 years.union contractMore than 2,500 field staff - bus operators, mechanics, facilities maintenance, light rail operators, service drivers, technicians and utility workers - are in primarily union positions and are paid weekly; the roughly 1,500 administrative staff are non-union and paid fortnightly. Union benefits are administered through a Health and Welfare Trust. Houston METRO's operators are represented by TWU Local 260.paid trainingBus operator training runs approximately 10 weeks and is paid at $24.43/hour - the same rate as the first six months on the road. The published progression then goes $25.00 at 12 months, $26.16 at two years, $27.33 at three years, $28.53 at four years and $29.14 after 48 months. Recruits without a Texas CDL with a P endorsement must pass General Knowledge, Commercial Vehicle Operating Knowledge, Passenger Relations, Air Brakes and a pre-trip inspection road test. No repayment or clawback clause is published.schedule protectionHonest negative for operators: METRO runs 24/7 and bus operators must be available for any schedule including weekends and holidays. No seniority pick mechanism is published on the careers page.no experience neededBus operator: at least 21, high school diploma or GED from an accredited entity, able to speak/read/write English, a valid Texas driver's licence (or able to obtain one), licensed driver for at least three years, no more than two moving violations in three years, and three years of general work experience preferably including driving or customer service. You do not need a CDL to apply - you must be ABLE to obtain a Class B Texas CDL learner's permit and maintain the Class B with P endorsement. Bus mechanic entry is lower still: 18+, English, DOT physical, drug screen and background check.
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    pensionRailroad Retirement, the federal system that replaces Social Security for rail workers: a career rail retiree averaged $4,565 a month in FY2025, against $1,985 under Social Securityunion contractAbout 80% of railroad employees are covered by collective bargaining agreements and are known as craft employees (FY2025 10-K)disabilityyeslife insuranceyesdentalyes
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    hours a week to qualifyFood and Nutrition Services General Worker is posted at 7 hours a day at $15.84 an hour, on a district work calendar, a cafeteria job built around the school day rather than a full 8-hour shift.pensionFlorida Retirement System membership is compulsory, not optional, for employees of a district school board, support staff included, from the date of employment, provided the job is a regularly established position (one expected to last beyond six consecutive months). Regular Class members can take the FRS Pension Plan (defined benefit) or the Investment Plan. FRS does not replace Social Security in Florida.union contractSupport staff pay and the length of the work year are set by the School Board subject to a collective bargaining agreement, the district states this in the terms of employment on its support-staff job postings.paid trainingBus Operator training is paid: new hires earn $17.00 an hour during training and step up to $21.00 an hour once they finish. Training is 40 hours preservice, at least 20 hours classroom and 8 hours behind the wheel on the Florida DOE Basic School Bus Driver Curriculum, plus 8 hours of in-service every year. No repayment clause is stated in the posting.no experience neededA high school diploma or GED is PREFERRED, not required, for Bus Operator, it sits under preferred qualifications, while the minimum qualifications are English fluency, five years of licensed driving and a clean five-year driving record. A Florida CDL is needed before you carry students, but the district trains you to it. Food and Nutrition Services General Worker also lists the diploma or GED only as preferred.
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    pensionThe MTA offers pensions to eligible employees alongside 401(k) and 457 plans, with military service credit eligibility. The MTA's own benefits page notes that public retirement plans are administered outside the MTA and that represented staff should refer to their collective bargaining agreement, so the plan and formula are not published here.union contractMTA frontline titles are union-represented and the posting names the union: LIRR Car Appearance Maintainers and Oilers are SMART Transportation Division / NCF&O; LIRR Locomotive Engineers are BLET. New York City Transit bus operators are TWU Local 100. The MTA benefits page directs represented staff to their collective bargaining agreement rather than the HR summary.promoted from withinThe Locomotive Engineer route is an internal promotion path from other LIRR grades, but it carries a lock-in penalty: an employee who reverts to their former position for any reason - including failing the programme - is barred from applying for another position for two years. Entry requirement is a high school diploma or GED plus one year of trade, CDL, railroad or 24/7-industry experience.paid trainingPARTLY UNPAID. The LIRR Locomotive Engineer Trainee programme runs in two phases: Phase 1 is a six-week NON-COMPENSATED classroom programme attended on your own time while you stay in your existing job; Phase 2 is a minimum of 14 months of full-time compensated training at 60% of the $57.278 rate ($34.367/hour) for the first 365 days. Phase 1 hours are paid retrospectively as a one-time lump sum only once you complete Phase 1 and are promoted to Locomotive Engineer. Failing a qualifying exam means termination from the programme.no experience neededCar Appearance Maintainer / Oiler (Long Island Rail Road, Westside Yard fleet cleaning): a four-year high school diploma or GED/TASC equivalent, basic oral and written communication, and knowledge of hand tools. No prior experience required for the Car Appearance Maintainer (the Oiler variant wants 1-2 years mechanical or electrical experience). The catch is the wage progression: the $36.449 rate is the 100% rate and new hires start at 70% of it, reaching 100% only after 1,920 days of compensated service.
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    hours a week to qualifySpecial Education Classroom Assistant (SECA) and Teacher Assistant (TA) paraprofessional posts are full-time with full healthcare and paid holidays, and the placement is for the whole school year rather than day-to-day.pensionCPS support staff - the non-teaching employees - are in MEABF, the Municipal Employees' Annuity and Benefit Fund of Chicago, a City of Chicago defined benefit pension fund, rather than in the Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund. It does not replace Social Security.union contractEvery support role is in a named bargaining unit and CPS publishes the contracts. SEIU Local 73 covers custodians, security officers, special education classroom assistants, child welfare attendants and school bus aides (contract 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2027). UNITE HERE Local 1 covers lunchroom employees; SEIU Local 1 covers lunchroom managers (2025-2029); Teamsters Local 700 covers motor truck drivers. Paraprofessional and School-Related Personnel are in the Chicago Teachers Union contract (2024-2028).no experience neededParaprofessional (SECA/TA) hiring is a documented three-step route with no teaching degree: get an Illinois State Board of Education Paraprofessional Licence, apply to the SECA/TA pool, then complete onboarding. CPS states you can be in a full-time post in under 30 days, and frames the job as a start rather than a mid-career move.
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    CSX Transportation
    Jacksonville
    pensionRailroad Retirement, the federal system that replaces Social Security for rail workers: a career rail retiree averaged $4,565 a month in FY2025, against $1,985 under Social Securityunion contractMost CSX employees are represented by labor unions, under agreements bargained nationally by the National Carriers Conference Committee or locally with CSXdisabilityyes
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    SSM Health
    St. Louis
    hours a week to qualifySSM Health states the threshold in hours per PAY PERIOD, not per week: 40 hours per pay period (50% FTE or higher) qualifies a part-time employee for benefits, effective the first of the month on or after hire. Applies to all non-union employees; staff covered by a collective bargaining agreement get whatever the CBA provides instead.degree paid upfrontFlexPath Funded is upfront-paid and usable on day one of employment, but only for degree coursework at select ONLINE universities or online skills-based courses. SHORT CLINICAL CERTIFICATES ARE OUTSIDE IT: CNA, medical assistant and phlebotomy training runs through tuition reimbursement instead, which requires 90 days of service, must be paid by the employee first, and must be REPAID in full if you leave or drop below benefit-eligible status within 12 months (24 months for cohort and hard-to-recruit certification programmes). Scope: all benefit-eligible employees.union contractSSM Health's own benefits page confirms part of its workforce is covered by collective bargaining agreements and that those employees' benefits come from the CBA, not from this page - employees are told to ask their recruiter for a separate Employee Benefits Guide.benefits while part-timeyes
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    hours a week to qualifyNon-union employees qualify for medical, dental, prescription, vision, life, disability, back-up care and time-off benefits at 17.5 hours a week. TUITION BENEFITS ARE GATED HIGHER: they start only at 35 hours a week (full-time), so a part-time aide, tech or porter working 17.5-34 hours has health cover but no tuition benefit. Temp/casual staff get neither health cover nor tuition - only wellness, 403(b) voluntary contributions, short-term disability, workers' comp and discounts. Union-represented staff are governed by their own collective bargaining agreement.union contractA large share of NYU Langone's frontline workforce is union-represented, and benefits eligibility for those roles comes from the collective bargaining agreement rather than the HR page. Named unions include 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, 32BJ SEIU (building services), Teamsters Local 810, Local 1 Security Officers Union, the Brotherhood of Security Personnel Officers and Guards, AFSCME District Council 1705 Local 205, the Federation of Nurses/UFT and Doctors Council SEIU.benefits while part-timeyes
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    union contractGeneral Dynamics-wide (Electric Boat is a GD business unit): about 23% of the workforce is covered by collective bargaining agreementsretirement matchGeneral Dynamics 401(k) programs with access to retirement planning counselors; plan detail varies by business unitdentalyesvisionyeshsayes
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    Rtx Corporation
    Farmington
    raised, july 2024$4Munion contractAt least one benefit plan is collectively bargainedhealth plan offeredyeslife insuranceyesdentalyesvisionyes
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    union contractAt least one benefit plan is collectively bargainedhealth plan offeredyeslife insuranceyesdentalyesvisionyes
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    union contractAt least one benefit plan is collectively bargaineddisabilityyeshealth plan offeredyesdentalyesvisionyes
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    union contractAt least one benefit plan is collectively bargainedlife insuranceyesdisabilityyeshealth plan offeredyesdentalyes
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    Fca US LLC
    Auburn Hills
    union contractAt least one benefit plan is collectively bargainedlife insuranceyesdisabilityyeshealth plan offeredyesdentalyes
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    union contractAt least one benefit plan is collectively bargainedhealth plan offeredyeslife insuranceyesdentalyesvisionyes
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    union contractAt least one benefit plan is collectively bargainedhealth plan offeredyeslife insuranceyesdentalyesvisionyes
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    union contractAt least one benefit plan is collectively bargainedhealth plan offeredyeslife insuranceyesdentalyesvisionyes
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    union contractAt least one benefit plan is collectively bargainedhealth plan offeredyeslife insuranceyesdentalyesvisionyes
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    union contractAt least one benefit plan is collectively bargainedhealth plan offeredyeslife insuranceyesdentalyesvisionyes
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    union contractAt least one benefit plan is collectively bargainedhealth plan offeredyeslife insuranceyesdentalyesvisionyes
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    union contractAt least one benefit plan is collectively bargainedhealth plan offeredyeslife insuranceyesdentalyesvisionyes
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    Lopez Foods, Inc
    Oklahoma City
    union contractAt least one benefit plan is collectively bargainedhealth plan offeredyeslife insuranceyesdentalyesvisionyes
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    Mastec, Inc.
    Coral Gables
    raised, july 2026$484Munion contractAt least one benefit plan is collectively bargainedhealth plan offeredyeslife insuranceyesdentalyesvisionyes
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    Nisource Inc.
    Merrillville
    union contractAt least one benefit plan is collectively bargainedhealth plan offeredyeslife insuranceyesdentalyesvisionyes
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    union contractAt least one benefit plan is collectively bargainedhealth plan offeredyeslife insuranceyesdentalyesvisionyes
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    union contractAt least one benefit plan is collectively bargainedhealth plan offeredyeslife insuranceyesdentalyesvisionyes
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    union contractAt least one benefit plan is collectively bargainedhealth plan offeredyeslife insuranceyesdentalyesvisionyes
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    union contractAt least one benefit plan is collectively bargainedhealth plan offeredyeslife insuranceyesdentalyesvisionyes
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    union contractAt least one benefit plan is collectively bargainedhealth plan offeredyesdentalyesvisionyesdisabilityyes
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    union contractAt least one benefit plan is collectively bargainedhealth plan offeredyeslife insuranceyesdentalyesvisionyes
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    3m Company
    St. Paul
    union contractAt least one benefit plan is collectively bargainedhealth plan offeredyeslife insuranceyesdentalyesvisionyes
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    union contractAt least one benefit plan is collectively bargainedhealth plan offeredyeslife insuranceyesdentalyesvisionyes
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    union contractAt least one benefit plan is collectively bargainedhealth plan offeredyeslife insuranceyesdentalyesvisionyes
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    union contractAt least one benefit plan is collectively bargainedhealth plan offeredyesdentalyesvisionyesdisabilityyes
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    union contractAt least one benefit plan is collectively bargainedhealth plan offeredyeslife insuranceyesdentalyesvisionyes
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    union contractAt least one benefit plan is collectively bargainedhealth plan offeredyesdentalyesvisionyeslife insuranceyes
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    union contractAt least one benefit plan is collectively bargainedhealth plan offeredyeslife insuranceyesdentalyesvisionyes
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    union contractAt least one benefit plan is collectively bargainedhealth plan offeredyeslife insuranceyesdentalyesvisionyes
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    union contractAt least one benefit plan is collectively bargainedhealth plan offeredyesvisionyesdisabilityyeslife insuranceyes
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    union contractAt least one benefit plan is collectively bargainedhealth plan offeredyeslife insuranceyesdentalyesvisionyes

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