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- What is work, and why is it important?
- The purpose of work.
- The benefits of work.
- The dangers of work.
- Union Workers Are Diverse, Just Like America
- Unions Represent Workers of All Levels of Education
- Unions Are Thriving in Diverse Workplaces—Including ‘New Economy’ Workplaces
- Unions Strengthen Democracy by Giving Workers A Voice in Policy Debates
- Unions Raise Wages For Both Union and Nonunion Workers
- Unions Help Raise Wages For Women and Lessen Racial Wage Gaps
- Unions Improve The Health and Safety Practices of Workplaces
- Unions Support Strong Families with Better Benefits and Due Process
- Unions Are Good For Workers’ Retirement Security
- Unions Create A Path to Sharing Knowledge and Solving Problems
The typical union member is often thought to be a worker on a manufacturing line in the Midwest. Manufacturing does have a strong union tradition, but people join unions in many industries and occupations. Union members include dental hygienists in Wisconsin, graduate students in Massachusetts, firefighters in Illinois, television writers and scien...
More than half (54.5 percent) of workers age 18 to 64 and covered by a union contract have an associate degree or more education.Two out of five (42.4 percent) have a bachelor’s degree or more education.Working people join unions to have some say over their jobs and their workplaces. Given the self-determination unions afford, it is no surprise that they are thriving in some of the companies, industries, and occupations undergoing the most change. 1. Television writers in Hollywood. Streaming services, cable offerings, and multiple viewing platfor...
Managers, business owners, and CEOs organize to advocate for their economic interests. That’s what chambers of commerce, business associations, and national trade associations do. Unions provide working people who are not executives or company owners with an opportunity to get their voices heard in policy debates that shape their lives. Americans h...
For typical workers, hourly pay growth has been sluggish for decades, rising 0.3 percent per year or 9.9 percent in all from 1979 to 2015. If pay had risen with productivity during that period, as it did in the decades before 1979, pay would have gone up 63.8 percent.18 But pay for typical workers is not rising at this clip because ever-larger shar...
Unions help raise the wages of women and black and Hispanic workers—whose wages have historically lagged behind those of white men—by establishing pay “transparency” (workers know what other workers are making), correcting salary discrepancies, establishing clearer terms for internal processes such as raises and promotions, and helping workers who ...
More than 4,800 workers are killed on the job every year. An estimated 50,000 to 60,000 more die of occupational diseases each year, and the estimated number of work-related injuries and illnesses exceeds 7 million.38 Unions have always championed worker safety by investing in programs to educate workers about on-the-job hazards and working with em...
About six in 10 adults (63 percent) say the average working person in the United States has less job security now than 20 or 30 years ago.50 And the lack of paid sick days is depriving many workers of funds needed for basic necessities—an especially difficult problem for the lowest-wage workers, about three-fourths of whom don’t get any paid sick d...
Few Americans have enough to live on in retirement. A key part of the story of rising retirement income insecurity is a shift from traditional defined-benefit (DB) pensions that provide a guaranteed income to defined-contribution (DC) plans—401(k)s or similar plans—that force workers to bear investment risk without providing any guarantees.58 The s...
Because they are on the front lines, working people often have some of the best information on how to improve their workplaces and make their workplaces safer and more productive. Unions provide the means for workers to share their knowledge about what works and what doesn’t—without fear of retaliation. Unionized workplaces also provide their worke...
Aug 24, 2017 · In a comprehensive new report, How today’s unions help working people, EPI researchers detail how collective bargaining plays an essential role in today’s labor market, by raising working people’s wages and supporting a fair and prosperous economy as well as a vibrant democracy—and how workers’ freedom to join together and bargain with their employer is…
Dec 8, 2017 · At the GoodWork Society we care deeply about the role that workplaces can play in enhancing the societies within which they operate. This may be in the form of the physical environment, with the…
Work can be a contributory factor and the role of the employer in addressing excess sedentary employment or psychological pressures is obvious. However, the workplace is also an effective venue for more general health promotion, especially when targeting hard to reach groups like men, and group interventions tend to have better outcomes than those delivered individually.
Consistent with previous researchers (e.g., ), the authors used four items to gauge individual work motivation, namely “Indicate how important work is in your life”, “People who do not work turn lazy”, “Work is a duty towards society”, and “Work should always come first, even if it means less spare”. The first item was measured on a scale from 1 to 4, in which lower scores ...
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Sep 11, 2018 · Duncan: What role does personal humility play in a leader’s ability to inspire others and create meaning in the workplace? W. Ulrich: Recent work by Dacher Keltner at UC Berkeley on the dynamics ...
