<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/79006c3f-290d-47ff-9e24-e6a39e3d745e/9E34019D-6628-4E36-8954-7E2F4929EE01/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.cepr.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1280&Itemid=77" href="http://www.cepr.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1280&Itemid=77" style="font-size: 11px;">www.cepr.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cepr.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1280&Itemid=77"><P class="pageIntro"> Washington, DC: Unionization substantially raises wages and benefits even in typically low-wage occupations, according to "<A target="_blank" href="http://www.cepr.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1279&Itemid=8">Unions and Upward Mobility for Low- Wage Workers</A> ", a report released today by the Center for Economic and Policy Research and <A target="_blank" href="http://www.inclusionist.org/">Inclusion</A>. </p> <P class="pageIntro"> The report, which analyzed 15 of the lowest-paying occupations in the United States, found that unionized workers earned about 16 percent more than their non-union counterparts. Unionized workers in these same industries were also about 25 percentage points more likely to have health insurance or a pension plan. </p> <P class="pageIntro"> For workers in these low-wage industries, unionization raised their wages, on average, about $1.75 per hour. In financial terms, the union effect on employer-provided health insurance and pensions was even larger.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9E34019D-6628-4E36-8954-7E2F4929EE01/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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