[lbo-talk] CNA responds to Mark Rickling

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Apr 18 05:40:50 PDT 2008


On Apr 17, 2008, at 10:33 PM, Mark Rickling wrote:


> In areas with density, one can drive standards. This is basic unionism
> 101. CA has a bunch of density, so does NY.

This effect is not visible in average wage levels. To pick two lines of work where SEIU is active in the New York metro area:

median hourly wage (BLS, 2006)

level ratio to all

------------- ---------------

US NY US NY nurses $27.54 $34.75 188.5% 185.1% janitors 9.58 11.89 65.6 63.3 all 14.61 18.77 100.0 100.0

Note that the ratio to the average wage in the NY metro area is *lower* than the national average. Though of course all the absolute wage levels are higher.

Doug



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