Senate Passes FAA Bill With Anti-Union Measure

Unions Help Bring Workers Into the Middle Class

The table below lists occupation­s with nonunion average earnings that are less than $21.20, the hourly wage a worker needs to earn to bring a family of four above 200 percent of the poverty guideline. The average union earnings for the jobs listed below bring workers in these jobs above 200 percent of the poverty guideline.

For example, nonunion machinist earned an average of $17.84 per hour in 2009. At this hourly wage, a full-time, year round nonunion machinist would earn $6,993 less than 200 percent of the poverty line for a family of four. Meanwhile, union machinists earned an average hourly wage of $24.29 – 36.2 percent more than the average wage for nonunion machinists­. At this hourly wage, a full-time, year round union machinist would earn $6,423 more than 200 percent of the poverty line for a family of four.  On average, in 2009, a nonunion machinist was paid 73 cents for each dollar paid to a union machinist.

AVERAGE HOURLY EARNINGS OF SELECTED OCCUPATION­S, 2009


WTF is any Democrat doing voting against unions, much less signing anti-union legislatio­n into law?!?
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