Report: Unions Are Big Advantage for Asian American/Pacific Islander Workers
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Asian American and Pacific Islander workers who belong to unions enjoy a large wage and benefit advantage over their nonunion counterparts, according to a new report by the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR).
The report, ”Unions and Upward Mobility for Asian American and Pacific Islander Workers, ” using the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau, finds that joining a union increases the pay of Asian American and Pacific Islander workers by about $2.50 per hour. Asian American and Pacific Islanders in unions are 16 percentage points more likely to have employer-provided health insurance and 22 percentage points more likely to have employer-provided pension plans than their nonunion peers.
Latinos make up the only group growing faster as a part of the union workforce than Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, says Nicole Woo, director of domestic policy at CEPR and an author of the report.
While this is reflective of workforce trends in general, the data show that joining a union makes a big difference in the wages and benefits of [Asian American and Pacific Islander] workers.
Henderson Tells Convention: Employee Choice Is Civil Rights Issue
As the AFL-CIO Convention prepared to vote on Resolution 1 on organizing, Wade Henderson, president of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), told the delegates that the freedom to form unions is a civil rights issue.
He called for Congress to pass the Employee Free Choice Act and pledged that the civil rights community will work “shoulder to shoulder” with workers to pass the bill.
Union participation can begin to lift the dead weight of decades of discrimination. For African Americans, women and Latinos the best way to build a better life is to join together with others to form a union.
Women Worldwide Are Paid Even Less Than We Thought
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In the current global economic crisis when jobs and living standards for millions of workers are threatened, a new report reveals the pay gap between men and women worldwide may be much higher than previously believed. The report, Gender (in)Equality in the Labor Market, puts the global pay gap at up to 22 percent, rather than the official government figure of 16.5 percent reported last year.
The report, released today by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), in advance of International Women’s Day, March 8, reaffirms what union members already know: Women who belong to unions earn more than nonunion women and receive better pay relative to their male co-workers. Click here to read the entire report.
