Posted by Dave on 04/02/08 at 01:22:53 pm
Categories: Race Ravings, Labor

40 Years After King’s Death, Unions Still Best Route to Better Life for African Americans:

Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated 40 years ago this week in the midst of a campaign to support striking Memphis sanitation workers who were trying to gain better pay and working conditions by joining a union.

Now, a new report by the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) shows that four decades after King’s death, union membership is still the best route to a better life for African American workers. Unions and Upward Mobility for African-American Workers found that black union workers earned, on average, 38 percent more than their nonunion peers.

You can read the whole report here.

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