{"id":1129,"date":"2008-12-03T12:29:19","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T17:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/?p=1129"},"modified":"2008-12-20T21:27:35","modified_gmt":"2008-12-21T02:27:35","slug":"women-in-unions-earn-more-and-get-better-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/03\/women-in-unions-earn-more-and-get-better-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Women in unions earn more, get better benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/rosie-the-riveter.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/rosie-the-riveter-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"rosie-the-riveter\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/rosie-the-riveter-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/rosie-the-riveter.jpeg 368w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new report by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cepr.net\/\">Center for Economic and Policy Research<\/a> documents a large wage and benefit advantage for women workers in unions relative to their non-union counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>The report found that unionized women workers earned, on average, 11.2 percent more than their non-union peers. In addition, women in unions were much more likely to have health insurance benefits and a pension plan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For women, joining a union makes as much sense as going to college,&#8221; said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cepr.net\/www.cepr.net\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=83&#038;Itemid=84\">John Schmitt<\/a>, a senior economist at CEPR and the author of the study. &#8220;All else equal, joining a union raises a woman&#8217;s wage as much as a full-year of college, and a union raises the chances a woman has health insurance by more than earning a four-year college degree.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The report, which analyzed data from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/cps\/\">Census Bureau&#8217;s Current Population Survey<\/a>, found that unionization raises the pay of women workers by almost $2 an hour. According to the report, women workers in unions were also 19 percentage points more likely to have employer-provided health insurance, all the more significant, since women pay higher premium rates individually than men. Women workers were also 26 percentage points more likely to have an employer-provided pension plan than women workers who were not in unions.<\/p>\n<p>The study also shows that unionization strongly benefited women workers in otherwise low-wage occupations. Among women workers in the 15 lowest-paying occupations, union members earned 14 percent more than those workers who were not in unions. In the same low-wage occupations, unionized women were 26 percentage points more likely to have employer-provided health insurance and 23 percentage points more likely to have a pension plan than their non-union counterparts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report by the Center for Economic and Policy Research documents a large wage and benefit advantage for women workers in unions relative to their non-union counterparts. The report found that unionized women workers earned, on average, 11.2 percent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/03\/women-in-unions-earn-more-and-get-better-benefits\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-network-newsevents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1129"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1151,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions\/1151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}