Latino workers in unions earn, on average, 17.6% more than non-union workers and are much more likely to have health insurance and a pension plan according to a report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research,
“Unions and Upward Mobility for Latino Workers”.
- Low Wage Pay
Unionization raises the pay of Latino workers by about $2.60 an hour.
- Benefits
Latino workers in unions are 26% more likely to have employer-provided health insurance and 27% more likely to have an employer-provided pension plan than non-union Latino workers.
Unionized Latino workers in the 15 lowest-paying jobs earn 16.6% more than those workers who are not in unions.
Unionized Latinos in the 15 lowest-paying jobs are 41% more likely to have employer-provided health insurance and 18% more likely to have a pension plan than their non-union counterparts.
- Demographics
By 2007, Latinos were about 14 percent of all U.S. workers and 12% of all union workers.
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