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More than 60% of workers age 16-24 work in the nation's service sector.
In San Francisco, the Young Workers United successfully fought for a raise in the minimum wage. With their efforts, it jumped to $8.50 an hour.
Unionized young workers earn 12.4 percent more in wages or $1.75 more per hour
Unionized young workers are 24 percent more likely to have a pension plan
Unionized women workers earn 11.2 percent more in wages or $2.00 more per hour than non-union women workers.
Unionized women workers are 19 percent more likely to have employer-provided health insurance than non-union women workers.
For the average woman, joining a union increases her probability of having health insurance more than finishing a four-year college degree would.
Service sector workers in unions are about 19 percentage points more likely to have health insurance than those not in unions
For service sector workers in low-wage occupations, unionization raises wages by over 15%.
Unionized service sector workers in low-wage occupations are 26 percent more likely to have health insurance and 23 percent more likely to be in a pension plan.
On average, unionization raises service sector workers' wages by over 10% – about $2.00 per hour
For workers in the 15 lowest-paying occupations – ranging from maintenance workers to teachers’ assistants– unionization raises wages by just over 16% or about $1.75 per hour
Union workers in the 15 lowest-wage occupations are 25% more likely to have health insurance than similar non-union workers in the same occupations.
Unionized Latino workers earn 17.6 percent more in wages or $2.60 more per hour than non-union Latinos.
Latinos are also the fastest growing group in the labor movement. In 1983 they accounted for 6 percent of the unionized workers. By 2007 they represented almost 12 percent.
Unionized Latino workers are 27 percent more likely to have a pension plan than similar non-union Latinos.
Unionization has raised black workers' wages 12 percent --about $2.00 per hour
Unionized African-American workers are about 16 percentage points more likely to have health insurance and about 19 percentage points more likely to have a pension than their nonunion counterparts.
For the typical U.S. worker – right in the middle of the national pay scale – unionization raises wages about 14%.
Unionization raises the likelihood of having health insurance or a pension by over 25 percentage points for younger workers.
For low-wage workers, unionization raises wages about 21%
Immigrant workers in unions were 50 percent more likely to have employer- provided health insurance and almost twice as likely to have an employer-provided pension plan than immigrant workers who were not in unions.
Among immigrant workers in the 15 lowest-paying occupations, union members earned almost 20 percent more per hour than those workers who were not in unions.
On average, unionization raised immigrants’ wages by 17 percent – about $2.00 per hour.
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