Finally, Somebody Speaks to What is Really Causing Wage Inequality
Labor Secretary Tom Perez spoke to the issue of slow wage growth. He describes what I've long professed, wages grow when workers unionize.
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Perez participated in the discussions between Verizon and the Communications Workers of America back in May, which helped resolve a 40,000-worker strike. Verizon owns AOL, which is the parent company of HuffPost.
Those are really good middle-class jobs, he said of the Verizon workers jobs. The more you strengthen collective bargaining, the more you strengthen the middle class. You get that through either unionization, or a workplace culture where workers have a strong voice at the table.
At this stage in the economic recovery, the problem isnt necessarily that unemployment is too high its been below 5 percent for months but that workers who do still have jobs arent seeing more in their paychecks.
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