Researchers from pro-union think tank the Economic Policy Institute found that high union density in an industry helps increase the floors for wages and benefits. Should companies in an industry raise their standards — such as by offering higher pay and making specific, demonstrated transparency efforts — these benefits will have a “‘spillover’ effect,” researchers said, to nonunion employers.
Polygon
December 9, 2022
The Economic Policy Institute says nearly 900,000 jobs were lost since the signing of NAFTA through 2002. Most of the jobs lost were in high-wage manufacturing, a majority disappearing within the rust belt.
Newsy
December 9, 2022
Part of the reason it’s cheaper is that contractors are not required to pay union wages or benefits, nor are they obligated to adhere to union rules. A 2021 report by the Economic Policy Institute found that union construction workers earned on average 40 percent more than their non-union workers.
Documented NY
December 9, 2022
“What we’ve seen over the last couple of years is a pretty solid bounce back from the pandemic recession [in life sciences],” Elise Gould, Ph.D., senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, told BioSpace. The EPI is a non-profit think tank.
Biospace
December 9, 2022
Bringing child care workers back, said Elise Gould at the Economic Policy Institute, is economics, not rocket science.
“So pay is one thing, providing benefits, having better working conditions, having better hours, all of those things are going to entice more workers into that profession,” she said.
Marketplace
December 9, 2022
Along with Michigan, there are 12 other states that are raising their minimum wage in 2023, according to the Economic Policy Institute:
Click on Detroit
December 9, 2022
Black and Hispanic workers were significantly less likely to be able to work remotely, according to a study by the Economic Policy Institute.
Fortune
December 9, 2022
More than 90% of domestic workers are women, and about a third are foreign born, according to a recent report from the the Economic Policy Institute. In fact, domestic workers are “twice as likely” as other U.S. employees to come from another country, the EPI notes. Of the 2.2 million, the vast majority work as home health care aides. And more will be needed in the cities that will age the most by 2060.
24/7 Wall St.
December 9, 2022
Poor working conditions are a primary source of the teacher shortage phenomenon, argues a new report from the Economic Policy Institute. The problem isn’t primarily a lack of qualified teachers, it says, but a lack of incentives for those qualified workers to take grueling, underappreciated jobs.
Education Week
December 9, 2022
Some data argues teachers should be looking to remain in unions. An August paper published by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) says that as teachers’ stress levels rose due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the comfort of their unions were the best resource to alleviate them.
KATV
December 9, 2022