Recent data suggest that workers’ rights training and education substantially improves the pay and benefits received by young workers. The question is how many job training programs teach participants about worker’s rights?
On average, unionization raised young workers’ wages 12.4 percent – or about $1.75 per hour – relative to young workers with similar characteristics who were not in unions.
Read the report:
http://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/unions_and_upward_mobility_for_young_workers.pdf
