Attitudes of Organized Labor Officials toward Health Care Issues: An Exploratory Survey of Alabama Labor Officials

Attitudes of organized labor officials toward health care issues: an exploratory survey of Alabama labor officials.

Delegates to the Alabama AFL-CIO Convention were surveyed concerning their attitudes toward their health benefits and various options for health care reform. Most are satisfied with their current health care coverage, but dissatisfied with its high costs. Participants attribute the high costs to providers' pricing policies and insurance companies' overhead.

Elected officials.

Comparative evaluation of college football officials' attitudes toward NCAA mouthguard regulations and player compliance.

A 12-item questionnaire addressing attitudes of football officials toward the 1990 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) mouthguard regulation was sent to all officials in the Southeastern Conference (N = 62). The response rate was 95% (59). Twenty-seven per cent of officials reported that all players were in compliance; 74% believed the new rule to be at least somewhat beneficial in ...

Rethinking health care labor.

O f the $2.6 trillion spent in 2010 on health care in the United States, 56% consisted of wages for health care workers. Labor is by far the largest category of expense: health care, as it is designed and delivered today , is very labor-intensive. The 16.4 million U.S. health care employees represented 11.8% of the total employed labor force in 2010. Yet unlike virtually all other sectors of th...

Written content indicators of problematic approach behavior toward political officials.

Those charged with assessing and managing threatening communications must utilize risk factors that are behavioral, operational, and reasonably attainable during investigations. This project examined 326 written correspondence cases of an inappropriate, disruptive, or threatening nature that targeted political officials, with the specific goal of identifying written content indicators of proble...