On average, unionized workers are paid over 11% more than their nonunionized counterparts, according to a study conducted by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). Kinder noted that the difference in wages between unionized and non-union drivers was evident in their analysis for companies like Amazon and FedEx (FDX).
Yahoo Money
May 6, 2022
The Economic Policy Institute, and other sources tracking job data, say Black unemployment in California remains higher than the statewide average.
Sacramento Observer
May 6, 2022
Dave Kamper, who researches labor as a senior state policy coordinator at the Economic Policy Institute, says “the number one tactic in the playbook of an anti-union employer is to play for time.” “A lot of these steps are handled by everyone just kind of agreeing to go ahead and take the next step,” he says of union certification. “But then if one side decides to back off of that agreement, you start all over again. And if your goal is simply to buy time, an employer has oodles of options.”
DCist
May 6, 2022
From 1980 to 2019, according to the Economic Policy Institute, there has been a continual increase in pay rates of high earners, graduates and professionals but low earners remained flat.
ABC News
May 6, 2022
Currently, about 63 percent of Starbucks employees make under $15 an hour, according to data from the Economic Policy Institute. It’s unclear how that percentage will change with union members and unionizing workers excluded from the pay raise.
Truthout
May 6, 2022
By 1990, voter indignation at the rising CEO-to-worker pay gap swelled to the point that Bill Clinton made it a major promise of his “Putting People First” campaign that if he was elected, he would put an end to it. Clinton got elected in 1993 and immediately said he would keep his promise. Let’s look at a graph prepared by the Economic Policy Institute that shows the rise in CEO to worker-pay ratio from the mid-1960s to 2018. Notice how after Clinton’s reform, the ratio skyrocketed.
People’s World
May 6, 2022
In the video, Pendleton cites the 2021 Economic Policy Institute report, which found that in 2020, CEOs of the top 350 U.S. firms made $24.2 million on average.
Fortune
May 6, 2022
“While much has changed” since the Haymarket bombing, arrests and frame-up of pro-worker activists in Chicago in 1886, “several core dysfunctions of that older economic system persist,” the Economic Policy Institute says.
People’s World
May 6, 2022
Barnette also has concerns about the racial wealth gap when it comes to Black and brown women. The Economic Policy Institute says a full-time Black worker earns 20% less than a full-time white worker.
Spectrum News
May 6, 2022