Meanwhile, the national private-sector workforce has grown; according to another study by the Economic Policy Institute, between 2006 and 2019, the number of workers per NLRB staff increased by 50 percent, from one full-time employee per 74,809 workers to one full-time employee per 112,201 workers. Declines in staffing have been followed by a decrease in case numbers.
Nonprofit Quarterly
May 27, 2022
Cites Unequal Power event on suppression of free speech. (paywall).
Law360
May 27, 2022
… being forced to retain employees of another political party, … for the Worker Power program at the Economic Policy Institute,…(paywall).
Sacramento Bee
May 27, 2022
And departures will disrupt one of the state work force’s recent characteristics: greater diversity. The Economic Policy Institute, a left-of-center think tank, notes that 58% of Virginia government employees are female, 1 in 5 is Black and 1 in 10 is Hispanic or Asian.
Richmond Times-Dispatch
May 27, 2022
Wage theft stiffs millions of U.S. workers each year out of tens of billions of dollars their employers owe, says the Economic Policy Institute.
Dayton Daily News
May 27, 2022
The average big-company CEO made 351 times the pay of the average worker on a realized basis in 2020, according to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), which has tracked the metric for decades, up from a 21-to-1 ratio back in 1965.
Fortune
May 27, 2022
“We are entering a period where people doing the exact same job in different states will have dramatically different standards of living,” said David Cooper, director of the Economic Analysis and Research Network, a project of the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. “It stresses, in my mind, the need for some sort of intervention at the federal level to equalize this.”
Bloomberg
May 27, 2022
One of the primary issues Apple retail workers are organizing around is pay. In the United States, unionized workers make about 13.2 percent more than their non-unionized peers in the same sector, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
The Verge
May 27, 2022