This Labor Day, for the first time in a while, American workers are on top.
on the economic value of organized labor. It found that unions raise the wages of their members by 10 to 15 percent, have “spillover effects” that benefit nonunion workers, “reduce race and gender wage gaps” and “boost businesses’ productivity.”found that 67 percent of Americans approve of unions.
Many of these workers hold what were once labeled “transitional jobs” — Starbucks employees are an example — but don’t see them that way. They “feel comfortable” doing such work, he said, because they are often pursuing “endeavors outside of the workplace.” Pearce, who chaired the NLRB under President Barack Obama, summed up their attitude nicely: “I need employment to sustain myself, I do not live to work.
In the meantime, he told me, they and members of the older workforce became increasingly militant. Workers “suffered and struggled through these tough economic times, as well as the devastations that the pandemic caused” and felt that higher corporate profits “did not reach them.” With labor markets tight, they could make demands they had not made before.
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