More Unions Are Being Led By Black

U.S. Labor Unions Are Having A Moment | ACS

Millennials and Gen Z, the next generation of workers, are more pro-union than older generations, with Gen Z being the most pro-union generation ...

Treasury Department Releases First-Of-Its-Kind Report on Benefits ...

And modern unions have broad representation across race and gender. In 2021, Black men had a particularly high union representation rate at 13 ...

Unions brought black Americans into the middle class. They're now ...

Thanks in part to the work of groups like AFSCME Local 1733 – still going strong today – many black workers are now organized in labor unions.

Honoring Black Labor Leaders | CLASP

Nowhere is that more evident than the labor movement. A founding tenet of American capitalism and our economy is that Black bodies are worth ...

The Importance of Unions for Workers of Color

Workers of color's access to the middle class will be infinitely narrowed without unionization. This is why workers of color and their allies ...

Union Members Summary - 2023 A01 Results

Among the major race and ethnicity groups, Black workers continued to have a higher union membership rate in 2023 (11.8 percent) than White ...

The union movement was anti-black from the beginning

In an otherwise racist era, the union mentality drove a new form of racist oppression: shutting blacks out of unions and union jobs. What ought ...

Can labor unions help close the black-white wage gap?

A 2012 study found that if unionization rates remained at their 1970s level—when African American workers were more likely than white workers to ...

Labor Unions and the U.S. Economy | U.S. Department of the Treasury

For example, one study finds that the wage gap between Black and white women was significantly reduced due to union measures. ... more equality, ...

Black Women Built That: Labor and Workers' Rights

Despite historical segregation that kept women and Black workers out of some of the most powerful labor unions in the United States, Black women ...

A Brief History of Labor, Race and Solidarity

This gave unions more negotiating power, and wages were inching up. So employers started recruiting black workers from the south as strike breakers and ...

How Unions have Supported Black Lives Matter - UnionTrack®

Unions have been one such ally. They are bringing workers together as a collective voice against the injustices toward Black communities.

COALITION OF BLACK TRADE UNIONISTS

The Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) was founded in 1973 by AFRICAN AMERICAN union workers displeased with the policies and practices of the American ...

African Americans and the American Labor Movement

... was headed by the noted educator and African American ... Although the STFU was never fully integrated (most of its locals were all black ...

The Future of Unions - Gallup News

Black Americans are more positive than other racial and ethnic groups. Women are slightly more positive than men. Most of these relationships ...

What You Need To Know About Gen Z's Support for Unions

Union membership increases earnings for Generation Z and Millennials, especially for Black and Hispanic workers ; All workers. +11.3% ; +1% ; Asian.

5 Black Leaders that Shaped the Labor Movement | NEA

... unions could be a vital vehicle for winning workers' rights. Smalls ... Even at that time, most of the country thought that unionizing Amazon ...

The History of Unions in the United States - Investopedia

Modern labor union members are very diverse, including more women and Black workers than ever before. National organized labor groups have influenced federal ...

15 Black Union Leaders Making Their Marks on the Labor Movement

Following in the footsteps of pioneering Black labor leaders such as Isaac Myers, president of the Colored Caulkers' Trade Union Society in 1868 ...

Unions and Discrimination - Cato Institute

The most difficult union-discrimination issue that black workers faced was that of seniority. If employers and unions agreed to open better jobs, heretofore ...