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Latino
Workers:
Improving
Their
Families’
Future
Through
Unions
Latino
workers,
especially
immigrant
workers,
look
to
join
unions
because
collective
bargaining
emphasizes
equal
pay,
and
fair
treatment
in
the
workplace.
Latino
workers
because
of
their
struggles
to
get
by
are
sometimes
left
out
of
the
economy
causing
them
to
turn
to
unions
for
a
fighting
chance
in
American
society.
There
is a
deep
economic
divide
between
Latino
workers
and
the
rest
of
the
labor
force
of
the
United
States.
The
economic
divide
in
income
is
do
to
the
fact
the
median
Latino
household
of
$35,967
was
78
percent
of
the
median
U.S.
household
income
of
$46,326.
Latino’s
men
pay
in
2006
was
66
percent
of
median
weekly
earnings
of
white
men.
Latino
women
made
77
percent
of
the
median
weekly
earnings
of
white
women.
Inequality
in
earnings
ratio
of
Latinos
to
whites
has
plummeted
since
the
early
1970’s.
In
1974
Latinos
made
80.8
percent
of
what
white
workers
made.
By
2005,Latinos
made
only
71.6
percent
of
what
white
workers
made.
Latino
workers
represent
13.5
percent
of
all
service
workers.
In
2003,only
57
percent
of
Latinos
25
and
older
had
graduated
from
high
school.
Unions
make
a
difference
for
Latino
workers.
For
Latino
workers
in
unions
wages
are
higher
than
for
those
Latino
workers
without
a
union.
Higher
union
wages
help
Latino
workers
stop
discrimination
and
raise
their
living
standards
in
the
community.
Union
members
are
also
much
more
likely
to
have
employer–provide
health
care
and
defined-benefit
pensions.
Unions
help
end
unfair
treatment
and
discrimination
because
union
contracts
insure
fair
treatment
from
management
for
everyone.
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