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I don't have a great intuition for this, so I looked it up. It looks like Black workers are more likely than White workers to be union members, while workers of
by tfehring 8y ago
I don't have a great intuition for this, so I looked it up. It looks like Black workers are more likely than White workers to be union members, while workers of other racial minorities are less likely [0]:
> Among major race and ethnicity groups, Black workers continued to have a higher union membership rate in 2018 (12.5 percent) than workers who were White (10.4 percent), Asian (8.4 percent), or Hispanic (9.1 percent).
But it's possible that the story is different for construction workers or for other individual sectors.
[0] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.htm https://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.htm
- exolymph 8y agoI'm sure that it varies somewhat by industry. But also, the absolute populations of white and black people in America are pretty different, so it matters how you measure this. A higher proportion of blacks could be union members, and still the absolute number of white union members could be larger.
- niij 8y agoHow else would you want them to measure it besides ratios? What would absolute numbers mean in this context?