Who’s going to lose out the most if (when) the Supreme Court deals a body blow to public sector unions in the Janus case?
While the outcome of the case will affect about 17 million public-sector workers across the country, black women in particular could be hurt by Janus, as they are disproportionately represented in public sector jobs. They make up 17.7 percent of public-sector workers, or about 1.5 million workers.
Black women have traditionally faced a double pay gap—a gender pay gap and a racial wage gap. EPI research has shown that black women are paid only 65 cents of the dollar that their white male counterparts are paid. However, unions help reduce these pay gaps. Working black women in unions are paid 94.9 percent of what their black male counterparts make, while nonunion black women are paid just 91 percent of their counterparts.
Wounding that is part of the Republican payoff for stealing a Supreme Court seat.
● Austin, Texas, has become the first city in the South to pass paid sick leave.
● The Trump Department of Labor is kind of out there on its own on tip-stealing proposal.
● How much has Donald Trump already cost workers in overtime? Check it out for the country as a whole or for your state.
● Trump's infrastructure plan: Fiction? Scam? Actually, both.
● Now arriving at America's airports: unions.
Airport employees have been mobilizing for higher pay and collective bargaining, gaining traction at a time when unions have been struggling. This month, passenger service workers at an American Airlines subsidiary, now represented by the Communications Workers of America, drew support from 81 members of Congress in their fight for a first-ever contract. Thousands of United’s catering workers petitioned last month to join the hospitality union Unite Here. And on Thursday, employees at New York’s three major airports—Newark-Liberty, LaGuardia, and JFK—who a few years ago joined the Service Employees International Union, will testify before the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey (which oversees the airports) in support of higher wages and better benefits.
● Women and men of color pay an "emotional tax" at work that's detrimental to their overall health and ability to thrive.
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