A new study confirms the union advantage for working women. After controlling for several factors apart from union membership (education, age, industry and state), women who belong to unions earn, on average, 11.2 percent more--about $2 an hour--than their nonunion peers. That's equivalent to what a woman worker would gain by spending a year in college.
In addition, women in unions in 2007 "were about 19 percentage points more likely to have employer-provided health insurance and about 25 percentage points more likely to have an employer-provided pension," according to the study, Unions and Upward Mobility for Women Workers, by the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR).
The 2009 AFL-CIO Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday observance is set for Jan. 15-19 in New Orleans, days before our first African American president is sworn in. What better time to celebrate the life and work of Dr. King?
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