Not all companies have responded to union drives with such hostility. Ben & Jerry’s and Microsoft have “tried to start a positive labor-management relationship,” the Economic Policy Institute reported on March 7, in an article arguing that the legal battle to ditch the NLRB relies on “long-rejected constitutional arguments about the agency’s structure.” EPI notes that none of the workers at Starbucks, Amazon or Trader Joe’s have a collective bargaining agreement yet, because these companies “have stalled the bargaining process.”
Counterpunch
March 22, 2024
The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) noted in its analysis of the BLS figures that the share of nonunion workers who would like to have a union at their workplace is far higher than the share who actually have union representation,” a testament to the effectiveness of corporate union-busting campaigns and the need for much stronger federal labor laws.
Common Dreams
March 22, 2024
In 1965, the average chief executive’s pay at the 350 largest U.S. companies was about 20 times the average wage of their rank-and-file workers, according to the labor-affiliated Economic Policy Institute. In 2022, it was 344.5 times as much.
LA Times
March 22, 2024
The lowest-paid workers in the U.S. economy have seen their wages surge in the past four years, outpacing gains for any other group of earners, according to a new report from Economic Policy Institute – but their wages remain “grossly inadequate.”
Real wages of the lowest-paid workers grew 12.1% between 2019 and 2023, researchers at the left-leaning think tank found, surging faster than the wages of any other group of earners. That number is adjusted for inflation.
The trend is “a notable reversal of fortune for lower-wage workers in the U.S. labor market,” researchers wrote in the report, released Thursday.
MarketWatch
March 22, 2024
“Never in recent history has this dynamic been more clear,” researchers at the Economic Policy Institute noted in 2020 in a report on how unions benefit all workers during public health crises. Never has it been more important that all workers have a voice in the workplace and access to a union. Workers’ lives and the health and safety of working families depends on their ability to have a say in how they do their jobs.”
Next City
March 19, 2024
Minnesota’s minimum wage was just adjusted for inflation on Jan. 1 to $10.85 an hour for large employers and $8.85 an hour for other state minimum wages.
According to the Economic Policy Institute, women and people of color are benefitting the most from the change, but some lawmakers believe the pay bump still isn’t enough.
CBS Minnesota
March 19, 2024
While the number of workers represented by a union has increased (by 191,000 from 2022 to 2023), the share of workers represented by a union has decreased slightly, from 11.3% to 11.2%, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
MLK50
March 19, 2024
An analysis by the Economic Policy Institute in 2015 revealed that income inequality caused the average middle-class worker to lose approximately $17,957 in yearly income in 2007.
GistFest
March 19, 2024
“Never in recent history has this dynamic been more clear,” researchers at the Economic Policy Institute noted in 2020 in a report on how unions benefit all workers during public health crises. Never has it been more important that all workers have a voice in the workplace and access to a union. Workers’ lives and the health and safety of working families depends on their ability to have a say in how they do their jobs.”
Next City
March 19, 2024
Minnesota’s minimum wage was just adjusted for inflation on Jan. 1 to $10.85 an hour for large employers and $8.85 an hour for other state minimum wages.
According to the Economic Policy Institute, women and people of color are benefitting the most from the change, but some lawmakers believe the pay bump still isn’t enough.
CBS Minnesota
March 19, 2024
While the number of workers represented by a union has increased (by 191,000 from 2022 to 2023), the share of workers represented by a union has decreased slightly, from 11.3% to 11.2%, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
MLK50
March 19, 2024
An analysis by the Economic Policy Institute in 2015 revealed that income inequality caused the average middle-class worker to lose approximately $17,957 in yearly income in 2007.
GistFest
March 19, 2024
While the number of workers represented by a union has increased (by 191,000 from 2022 to 2023), the share of workers represented by a union has decreased slightly, from 11.3% to 11.2%, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
MLK50
March 19, 2024
An analysis by the Economic Policy Institute in 2015 revealed that income inequality caused the average middle-class worker to lose approximately $17,957 in yearly income in 2007.
GistFest
March 19, 2024
ABOUT 50% OF THE LABOR MARKET’S RECENT GROWTH CAME FROM FOREIGN-BORN WORKERS BETWEEN JANUARY 2023 AND JANUARY 2024, ACCORDING TO ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE ANALYSIS OF FEDERAL DATA.
C-SPAN Washington Journal
March 18, 2024
Minnesota teachers make nearly 28% less than other comparable college-educated workers in the state, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank based in Washington, D.C. That gap is about 26% nationally.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
March 18, 2024
Furthermore, studies conducted by the Economic Policy Institute have shown that voucher students performed worse than their peers going to schools in the traditional sense.
TheChattanoogan.com
March 18, 2024
For this article, rental prices were taken from Zillow Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:Z) and Zumper, grocery figures were taken from the Economic Policy Institute,
Insider Monkey
March 18, 2024
Advocates, including the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy and the Economic Policy Institute worried earlier versions of the bill would put kids at risk to hazardous working environments.The legislation was one of two bills lawmakers considered that would have weakened the state’s protections for young workers.
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Nina Mast, state economic analyst for the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank aimed at including the needs of low- and middle-income workers in economic policy discussions, agreed that the final version of the bill was much improved than the original version, but said not all concerns were addressed.
Mast said her main concern with the bill now is that it’s unclear and up to interpretation whether minors can work in hazardous work beyond what is outlined in the federal Fair Labor Standards Act.
“If it is not clear to advocates who have pored over multiple versions of the bill, how can we expect it to be clear to the lawmakers voting in support of it, to the employers expected to follow it, or to state agents charged with enforcing it?” Mast said.
West Virginia Watch
March 18, 2024
State and local governments can play a critical role in protecting teens from workplace injury and death amid a nationwide surge in child labor law violations, a recently published report states.
Citing data from the Department of Labor, the nonprofit think tank Economic Policy Institute and New York University’s Wagner Labor Initiative say child labor violations rose 88% between 2019 and 2023.
Safety and Health Magazine
March 18, 2024
A separate report by the Economic Policy Institute finds that Minnesota teachers make almost 30% less than comparably educated workers in other fields, a figure that’s slightly higher than the national average.
Minnesota Reformer
March 18, 2024
Education majors tend to be paid less, as well. While teachers have good job security, summers off and pensions, they’re usually paid by state governments, which have lagged in keeping wages commensurate with inflation. In recent years, the “teacher pay penalty” has gotten worse, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
CNBC
March 18, 2024
And the proposed tiered wage system only adds more confusion, argued the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank that focuses on the needs of low- and middle-income workers, in its comments on the proposal. The department could consider simply establishing that au pairs should be paid the highest of the applicable local, state and federal minimum wages, the same rule that has been established in the Summer Work Travel program, the largest J-1 visa work program.
19th News
March 18, 2024
The federal estate tax should be an effective tool to slightly level the playing field between those who inherit wealth and those who have to work for a living. It should also ensure that family dynasties who’ve amassed enormous fortunes pay their fair share in taxes.
But because policymakers have repeatedly doubled and tripled the immense sums that can be passed on before the tax kicks in, the estate tax today affects almost no one.
CNN
March 18, 2024
Advocates, including the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy and the Economic Policy Institute worried earlier versions of the bill would put kids at risk to hazardous working environments.The legislation was one of two bills lawmakers considered that would have weakened the state’s protections for young workers.
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Nina Mast, state economic analyst for the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank aimed at including the needs of low- and middle-income workers in economic policy discussions, agreed that the final version of the bill was much improved than the original version, but said not all concerns were addressed.
Mast said her main concern with the bill now is that it’s unclear and up to interpretation whether minors can work in hazardous work beyond what is outlined in the federal Fair Labor Standards Act.
“If it is not clear to advocates who have pored over multiple versions of the bill, how can we expect it to be clear to the lawmakers voting in support of it, to the employers expected to follow it, or to state agents charged with enforcing it?” Mast said.
West Virginia Watch
March 18, 2024
State and local governments can play a critical role in protecting teens from workplace injury and death amid a nationwide surge in child labor law violations, a recently published report states.
Citing data from the Department of Labor, the nonprofit think tank Economic Policy Institute and New York University’s Wagner Labor Initiative say child labor violations rose 88% between 2019 and 2023.
Safety and Health Magazine
March 18, 2024
A separate report by the Economic Policy Institute finds that Minnesota teachers make almost 30% less than comparably educated workers in other fields, a figure that’s slightly higher than the national average.
Minnesota Reformer
March 18, 2024
Education majors tend to be paid less, as well. While teachers have good job security, summers off and pensions, they’re usually paid by state governments, which have lagged in keeping wages commensurate with inflation. In recent years, the “teacher pay penalty” has gotten worse, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
CNBC
March 18, 2024
And the proposed tiered wage system only adds more confusion, argued the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank that focuses on the needs of low- and middle-income workers, in its comments on the proposal. The department could consider simply establishing that au pairs should be paid the highest of the applicable local, state and federal minimum wages, the same rule that has been established in the Summer Work Travel program, the largest J-1 visa work program.
19th News
March 18, 2024