Senate Passes FAA Bill With Anti-Union Measure

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

How Unions Help Bring Low-Wage Workers Out of Poverty

With a voice on the job through a union, workers in low-wage occupation­s on average earn a great deal more than nonunion workers in the same occupation­s, often lifting their earnings above the official poverty guidelines­. For example, union cashiers in 2009 earned an average wage of $11.76 per hour, which is over 29 percent higher than the average hourly wage for nonunion cashiers. Over the course of a year, being in a union translates on average into more than $5,500 in additional pay for a low-wage worker. While the earnings of cashiers not in unions, on average, leave a worker $3,184 below the poverty guideline for a family of four, a cashier in a union earns, on average, enough to brings the worker $2,411 above the poverty guideline for a family of four.

AVERAGE HOURLY EARNINGS OF UNION AND NONUNION WORKERS IN SELECTED OCCUPATION­S, 2009
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