7 Ways Pro-Worker Policies Help Everyone, Including Nonunion Workers and CEOs

The report gives both general statistics and focuses specifically on the construction industry. Here are the top seven ways pro-working family policies are shown to benefit workers or CEOs:

1. In states without “right to work” for less laws, the average worker (not just union workers) earns 6% more.

2. An increase in union membership rate of 10% reduces income inequality between 4.7% and 14.5%.

3. In states without “right to work” laws, CEO incomes were 17.9% higher in construction occupations than in “right to work” states.

4. In states with prevailing wage laws, the median worker is paid 16.7% more than in states without prevailing wage laws.

5. Prevailing wage laws reduce income inequality between the highest earners and lowest earners by 45.1%.

6. States without “right to work” laws have lower income inequality by 2.5% to 8.2%.

7. In states without “right to work” laws, workers earned 26.7% more in total income (including benefits).

Read the full report.

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This has been reposted from the AFL-CIO.