Wage Parity and Patterns of Unionization

1998 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-71
Author(s):  
G. Michael Winkler ◽  
Eva Pichler
Keyword(s):  
Wage Parity

Labor's Share and "Wage Parity"

1960 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph D. Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Labor's Share ◽  
Wage Parity

Canadian trade unionism and wage parity for women: Putting the principle into practice

1983 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-219
Author(s):  
Norman A. Solomon ◽  
Rebecca A. Grant
Keyword(s):  
Trade Unionism ◽  
Wage Parity

scholarly journals Canadian Industrial Relations – The Task Force Report

2005 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 489-497
Author(s):  
Adolf Sturmthal
Keyword(s):  
Task Force ◽  
Full Employment ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Industrial Democracy ◽  
Task Force Report ◽  
Union Security ◽  
Wage Parity

After an overall judgment of the Report, the author examines problems such as the emergency strike, the alienation of the worker, the long-term full employment, inflation, industrial democracy, union certification, union security and wage parity.

scholarly journals Racial Pay Parity in the Public Sector: The Overlooked Role of Employee Mobilization

2020 ◽  
pp. 003232922092159
Author(s):  
Isabel M. Perera ◽  
Desmond King
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
Blue Collar ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Sector Unions ◽  
Wage Parity ◽  
Federal Workforce

Rising economic inequality has aggravated long-standing labor market disparities, with one exception: government employment. This article considers the puzzle of black-white wage parity in the American public sector. African Americans are more likely to work in the public than in the private sector, and their wages are higher there. The article builds on prior work emphasizing institutional factors conditioning this outcome to argue that employee mobilization can motor it. As public sector unions gained political influence postwar, their large constituencies of black, blue-collar workers, drawing on both militant and nonviolent tactics of the urbanizing civil rights movement, advocated for improved working conditions. Archival sources confirm this pattern at the federal level. The employment and activism of African Americans in low-skilled federal jobs pivoted union attention to blue-collar issues and directly contributed to the enactment of a transparent, universal wage schedule for the blue-collar federal workforce (the Federal Wage System). The result was greater pay parity for African Americans, as well as for other disadvantaged groups.

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