The building workers pay nothing toward their health premiums, which total around $10,000 per year per worker.

Teachers pay from 10-20% of their health premiums with many contracts at 12%.

In a union concession, workers were to pay 1.5 percent of their wages toward health premiums.

If the union accepted Tyson's demands, he said, the lower pension and higher health premiums would force him to take a second job.

Under the rejected deal, workers were to pay 1.5 percent of their wages toward health premiums, with that percentage rising in future years.

In some states, health premiums actually cost more than monthly unemployment benefits, slowly driving families further into debt.

The agreement on health premiums will save the authority nearly $32 million a year.

It also would have required workers, for the first time, to pay 1.5 percent of their wages toward health premiums.

The Administration estimates that in 1993 the nation's companies and workers will spend $275 billion on health premiums.

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