Bargaining units were not even guaranteed to win a first contract, Schadel declared, using 2009 data from the Economic Policy Institute. Even more than three years after winning a union election, 25 percent of bargaining units fail to win a first contract, EPI reported. Then again, non-union workplaces get contracts governing their employment zero percent of the time.
The American Prospect
August 6, 2021
According to a 2019 study from the Economic Policy Institute, “teachers are paid almost 20% less than other college-educated workers with similar experience and other characteristics.” Most teachers will tell you that it’s all worth it for their students, but a little appreciation goes a long way.
People
August 6, 2021
Average hourly earnings rose 3.6% to $30.40 in June. That’s the biggest spike since January 2009, according to data compiled by the Economic Policy Institute.
Entrepreneur (via Yahoo)
August 6, 2021
The issues the UMWA is seeing in Brookwood highlight a broader problem for unions in the U.S. By 2020, only 12.1% of workers were represented by a union — about half as many as 40 years ago — according to the Economic Policy Institute. On average, unionized workers earn about 11% more than non-unionized workers.
“The reason that we’ve seen such a big decline in unionization, despite workers’ interests in being unionized, has everything to do with massively increased employer aggressiveness against unions,” said Heidi Shierholz, director of policy at the EPI and a former chief economist for the U.S. Department of Labor. “It’s not that the workers don’t want to be in unions. It’s that the playing field has been so tilted that it’s really undermined workers’ fundamental rights.”
ABC News
August 6, 2021
In 2015, the Economic Policy Institute revealed that “more than two-thirds of all African American working mothers are single moms, making them the primary, if not sole, economic providers for their families” which is significantly higher than their white and Latina counterparts.
MadameNoire (via Yahoo)
August 6, 2021
Also on the show: David Cooper, senior research analyst at the Economic Policy Institute, joins us to parse the “we all quit” phenomenon currently coursing through the US wage labor workforce, and through US economic news media. Does media’s narrative really match what’s going on?
FAIR Counterspin
August 6, 2021
Black women who work in areas that are critical to the Covid-19 recovery such as doctors, nurses, teachers, child care workers, wait staff, and cashiers, for example, make 11% to 27% less than white men, according data from the Economic Policy Institute.
In higher-paid professions, including among doctors on the frontlines fighting Covid, the inequality is magnified. White male physicians and surgeons make $63.41 an hour on average. Black women in these positions make less than $46.59 an hour, EPI found.
CNBC
August 6, 2021
Even if job growth slows slightly from the July pace, the US is still on track to recoup its lost payrolls by the end of 2022. That would be five times faster than it took to recover every job lost during the Great Recession, Heidi Shierholz, senior economist and director of policy at the Economic Policy Institute, wrote in a tweet.
Business Insider
August 6, 2021
The overall employment trend is moving in the right direction as the economy recovers from the pandemic, according to Heidi Shierholz, former chief economist with the Labor Department under the Obama administration.
“Because people of color were disproportionately hit by this downturn, as we’re recovering from this, workers of color see disproportionate gains,” said Shierholz, senior economist and policy director at the liberal-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
CNBC
August 6, 2021
The differential between pay awarded to white males versus other workers is getting smaller in some instances, but the gap between wages paid to Caucasian men and both Black men and women has actually worsened in the past two decades, according to one report from the Economic Policy Institute.
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Though some claim we’re in a “post-racial” society, the Economic Policy Institute reports Black workers still earn less than three-quarters of the pay awarded to their white colleagues—71 cents on the dollar for Black males, and 64 cents on the dollar for Black females.
Newsweek
August 6, 2021