New Report on Unionization

The topic of unions and their role in workplace will continue to appear throughout this course, so I though you might be interested in this new report on unionization in New York. New York has a higher unionization rate than the rest of the country. Other key findings include:

·  Public sector employees are older, more highly paid, and more educated than workers generally.  Women, African Americans, and workers born in Puerto Rico are all overrepresented in the public sector, and largely for this reason have high unionization rates relative to other demographic groups.

·  In New York City, the unionized workforce differs from that of the nation in that non-college educated, traditional blue-collar workers remain highly unionized, especially in industries like transit and home health care.

·  A majority of New York City's union members are female, reflecting high union membership in teaching and other educational services, as well as in fields like health care that typically employ women in higher numbers.

·  Although recent immigrants have low unionization rates, immigrants who arrived in the U.S. before 1990 have unionization rates as high, or higher than U.S.-born workers.

 The full report is available at:
The State of the Unions
http://www.urbanresearch.org/news/new-cuny-study-on-nyc-and-states-high-unionization-and-unique-patterns-of-union-membership


John