What makes the health care industry so special in Baltimore?
According to the Union, Baltimore’s health care industry has a unique obligation to pay its workers higher salaries because the health care industry is itself unique. But the vast majority of the jobs occupied by union members are NOT unique to the health care industry. Those workers in the Services Employees International Unions provide important contributions in such areas as housecleaning, groundskeeping, food preparation, etc., but these same jobs are performed by similar workers for numerous other organizations and companies, including hotels, restaurants and office building complexes. Although these employees may work within the health care industry, they are not directly involved in providing health care. Q: I still don’t understand how paying some workers more money can hurt the economy. A: One explanation is that if large pay raises are given to a large group of workers, that money must be recaptured somewhere. What typically happens is that the prices for the service or manuf
