This translates into hundreds of thousands of additional dollars in union women’s pockets over the course of their careers. For Black and Latina women, the union advantage is even greater. ![]() Being represented by a union reduces women’s wage gap by nearly 40 percent compared to the pay gap experienced by non-union women. Union Women Equal Pay Day comes a full month earlier than Equal Pay Day for all women because of the significantly smaller pay gap between unionized women and men. So yesterday we not only observed Valentine’s Day, but also Union Women Equal Pay Day – when union women reach what men earned in 2021 – ahead of when non-union women catch up. They are also far more likely to have paid leave and stronger protections against discrimination and sexual harassment in the workplace. ![]() Unionized women make on average 23% more than women without a union. The Bureau of Labor Statistics findings are clear. Her Valentine’s Day wish is for more women to experience the transformative difference a union can make in their own lives.Īurora’s story is not unique. To pay it forward, she is now focused on helping women and diverse candidates enter the union building trades so they can have the same opportunities through a program called the Missouri Works Initiative. She credits being in a union for helping her achieve what is out of reach for too many working women – financial independence. ![]() Not only was this a higher paying job, but she also worked alongside her male counterparts as an equal, and was able to buy a car and her own home. That all changed when she joined Ironworkers Local 396 in St. Despite being more experienced than her male co-worker, she later learned that he was paid more doing the same job. By: Wendy Chun-Hoon, Liz Shuler | FebruLeslie Cotton, a union plumber from OregonĪurora Bihler waited tables for years.
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