The union is solely funded by membership dues. Each member in local #713 pays $18.55 per bi-weekly paycheck, or $482.30 a year. Current there are 1,000 unit bargaining employees at SAMC, 600 of which are NHEU members. This equates to $289,380 in revenue per year with 53%, or $153,371.40 going to national NHEU headquarters. Nationally ANHN employees approximately 342,100 workers, 285,100 of which are bargaining unit employees. Amongst bargaining unit employees only approximately 31,360, or 11%, are NHEU due paying members paying a total of $15,124,928 in dues per year. With increased benefits and representation for more member needs, it is projected that the recommended solutions with net an increase in 10% more members. This equates to 60 more…show more content… In this particular case, by mitigating certain stressors members are contributing to the whole picture of disease prevention. According to the Surgeon General’s National Prevention Strategy (n.d.), “Prevention can reduce the significant economic burden of disease in addition to improving the length and quality of people’s lives. Treatment, lost productivity, and health care costs are significant burdens to the economy, families, and businesses. Prevention policies and programs often are cost-effective, reduce health care costs, and improve productivity (National Prevention Strategy, n.d.).” By preventing, mitigating, and facilitating treatment for specific factors, members will prevent and avoid nearly incalculable costs associated with the treatments for such diseases as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. According to the Surgeon General’s National Prevention Strategy (n.d.), “Annual health care costs are $2,000 higher for smokers, $1,400 higher for people who are obese, and $6,600 higher for those who have diabetes than for nonsmokers, people who are not obese, or people do not have diabetes (National Prevention Strategy, n.d.).” Taking these figures into account and the number of bargaining unit employees at the national level and of local # 713, employees would save the following annually if there were just a 10% reduction as the
