Corporations often scaremonger about union dues to their employees, saying that union membership is expensive and therefore not worth it. However, research shows that union members are paid 11.2 percent more than non-union workers, according to the Economic Policy Institute, with greater access to benefits like health care.
Truthout
August 20, 2021
Employers spend an estimated $340 million annually for “union avoidance” consultants to discourage organized labor campaigns by improving management techniques and employee relations, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington-based outfit that advocates for labor.
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
August 20, 2021
The Economic Policy Institute’s quip — “there is no such thing as a labor shortage, there is a wage shortage” represents that view.
Forbes
August 20, 2021
The declining bargaining power of unions contributes to the crisis of extreme income inequality in the United States. “The erosion of collective bargaining is the second largest factor that suppressed wage growth and fueled wage inequality over the last four decades,” finds the Economic Policy Institute. Belonging to a union significantly boosts wages: Unionized workers earn, on average, over 11% more than their nonunionized counterparts and are more likely to have health benefits from their employer. Unionized workers also are less likely to get laid off than their nonunion workers.
Capital and Main
August 20, 2021
Indigenous farmworkers were also much more likely to work for a farm labor contractor. Farm labor contractors are the fastest-growing segment of farm employment and made up one-quarter of federal employment law violations in agriculture, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank that examines the economic conditions of low and middle-income workers.
Statesman Journal
August 16, 2021
As Richard Rothstein, a fellow at the Economic Policy Institute, a worker-focused think tank, argues in his history of segregation, “The Color of Law,” because Richmond was essentially all White before the war, the federal government’s role in housing directly established segregation in the city.
Undark
August 16, 2021
Corporations often scaremonger about union dues to their employees, saying that union membership is expensive and therefore not worth it. However, research shows that union members are paid 11.2 percent more than non-union workers, according to the Economic Policy Institute, with greater access to benefits like health care.
Truthout
August 16, 2021
Employers spend an estimated $340 million annually for “union avoidance” consultants to discourage organized labor campaigns by improving management techniques and employee relations, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington-based outfit that advocates for labor.
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
August 16, 2021
The Economic Policy Institute’s quip — “there is no such thing as a labor shortage, there is a wage shortage” represents that view.
Forbes
August 16, 2021