{"id":6081,"date":"2022-01-07T21:35:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T03:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/?p=6081"},"modified":"2022-01-07T21:35:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T03:35:50","slug":"another-advantage-of-having-a-union-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/2022\/01\/07\/another-advantage-of-having-a-union-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Advantage Of Having A Union Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>:You can&#8217;t hit what you can&#8217;t see:.\u00a0 That phrase highlights another advantage of having a union contract.\u00a0 Bloomberg drives the point home with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-12-13\/pay-transparency-data-for-tech-workers-could-reduce-racial-gender-inequities\">I&#8217;ll Have What He&#8217;s Making<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Researchers say transparency requirements could help reduce\u00a0<a title=\"Why Can\u2019t Your Company Just Fix the Gender Wage Gap?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2017-06-21\/why-can-t-your-company-just-fix-the-gender-wage-gap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">long-standing gender-<\/a>\u00a0and race-based pay inequities, chronic problems within the tech industry. \u201cThe idea is that if you\u2019re not transparent about what people are being paid, you can\u2019t smoke out gender-based differentials,\u201d Lopez says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmployers will often anchor negotiations based on the first offer the employee makes,\u201d says David Lopez, a professor at Rutgers Law School and former general counsel of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. If you lack data on pay, \u201cyou\u2019re negotiating from a position of weakness.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A union contract addresses two of these issues head-on.\u00a0 In many companies it is forbidden or highly discouraged to discuss salary with co-workers.\u00a0 A union contract puts the pay of each member of the bargaining unit in black and white.\u00a0 This transparency is what many states are trying to do through law.\u00a0 A union contract has the power of law and solves this problem.<\/p>\n<p>The other issue solved by a union contract is different pay for different folks based on skin color, sex, etc.\u00a0 Job classifications and employee status\/seniority are usually the criteria for pay and these are stated in black and white in the union contract.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/2022\/01\/07\/another-advantage-of-having-a-union-contract\/clipart-contract\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6082\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6082\" src=\"http:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Clipart-Contract.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(free image via clipart)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>:You can&#8217;t hit what you can&#8217;t see:.\u00a0 That phrase highlights another advantage of having a union contract.\u00a0 Bloomberg drives the point home with I&#8217;ll Have What He&#8217;s Making&#8230; Researchers say transparency requirements could help reduce\u00a0long-standing gender-\u00a0and race-based pay inequities, chronic problems within the tech industry. \u201cThe idea is that if you\u2019re not transparent about what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-contracts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6081"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6084,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081\/revisions\/6084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}