With no health insurance, inuity , pension , savings programs , or job security. That extra money doesnt come close to the amount of money that goes into our benifits. Our base wage is just whats in our envelope every week. About the same amount in our paychecks gets deposited into accounts for the things above that we can tap into and use. Ive looked into working non union. Even though they get paid more i couldnt do that and make enough to pay for all my benifits i have through the union. Plus we do better work lol.