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Union Women Earn More than Nonunion Women in Every State

Posted On: Aug 27, 2015

Aug. 27, 2015 | U.S. LABOR | prnewsire.com A new briefing paper released by the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) finds that women represented by a union in the United States earn an average of $212 more per week than women in nonunion jobs. In addition, union women earn more in every state, with the size of the union wage advantage varying across states. The analysis also finds that the size of the union wage advantage is large enough in 32 states to cover the costs of full-time child care for an infant in a center. Full story…