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Unit 9 Discussion - Topic 1

Union Impact on Wages and Discrimination

What are the issues that make it difficult to specify the union impact on general wage levels?

Unit 9 Discussion - Topic 2

Use your favorite search engine to search for comparable worth still needed. Learn about the Paycheck Fairness Act. Please relate anything useful from the Web search as it relates to this issue. Discuss how the issues that make it difficult to specify the union impact on wage rate can be a union wage premium which differentiates between the union and nonunion wages. Nonwage compensation called fringe benefits such as a pension, insurance, paid leaves are fringe components of pay packages. Currently, unionization has gone beyond increasing bargaining power over the nonunion wages and labor practices. There is a union threat effect which is a concept implying that nonunion workers get paid more as their employers are compensating to prevent unionization from being mass-produced. Thus the impact of unions on wage dynamics is not easy to compute and evaluate. issues affected by compensation legislation in the United States have changed over time.

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Ritu Kharb
Ritu KharbLv5
28 Sep 2019

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