In addition to his role in MUI, Martinez is on the exective councils of the AFL-CIO, IndustriALL Global Union, the AFL-CIO Industrial Union Council, the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA), the Alliance for Retired Americans, the AFL-CIO Metal Trades Council, America’s Agenda, the Economic Policy Institute, among others.
CBS News
March 10, 2023
The bill comes after a report from the Economic Policy Institute that said 27% of billion-dollar companies in Tennessee pay no state income taxes. A report last year from the group said 60% of the state’s corporations do not pay state income tax.
The Center Square
March 10, 2023
Wage theft in general is a commonplace problem. The Economic Policy Institute estimates that it costs U.S. workers as much as $50 billion per year.
Virginia Mercury
March 10, 2023
According to the Economic Policy Institute, up to $50 billion is stolen from American workers through wage theft every year. For comparison, the FBI estimates the total value of 2019 robberies to be $482 million, meaning employers stole one hundred times more from Americans than did traditional thieves.
Jacobin
March 10, 2023
The field of education is currently in crisis. The gap between teacher pay and that of other college graduates has hit a record high. According to a report by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), teachers were paid on average 24 percent less than comparable college graduates were paid in 2021, a record high gap since the group began examining such data.
Truthout
March 10, 2023
Robinson did not mention a specific pay-raise amount to reach peer-professional pay. But in its recent Top Education Issues 2023-24 report, the Public School Forum got specific: 24.5%. The Forum drew on the analysis of the Economic Policy Institute, which has tracked national trends in teacher pay for two decades.
Ed NC
March 10, 2023
Studies show that gender price discrimination can cost women in practical, physical, and financial ways. Data from the Economic Policy Institute show that women still make about twenty percent less on the dollar than men. Similar numbers from various studies show that women are likely to spend more for necessities like healthcare, clothing, and housing as compared to similarly situated men.
Kiplinger
March 10, 2023
A 2015 report from the Economic Policy Institute found that public sector employees in “right-to-work” states and states that prohibit collective bargaining in the public sector make less than their private-sector peers. Unions, however, can help fill that gap.
Orlando Weekly
March 10, 2023
These politicians are focused on protecting their wealthy donors, who pay less into Social Security than ever. The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) recently found that as inequality increases, a record share of all earnings are above the $160,200 cap on Social Security contributions.
People's Weekly World
March 10, 2023
The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) maintains that unions help reduce income inequality by “improving wages and benefits for all workers,” and “reduce racial disparities in wages and raise women’s wages, . . . counteracting occupational segregation, discrimination, and other labor market inequities related to structural racism and sexism. When unions are strong, they set wage standards for entire industries and occupations; they make wages more equal within occupations; and they close pay gaps between white workers and workers of color.”
Insider NJ
March 10, 2023