Why union membership is worth £72 a week
You can read the TUC's take on the 'Trade Union Membership 2005' figures published today by the DTI here.
The figures are a bit of a mixed bag - but on the positive side, they show an increase in union density for only the second time since 1989. They also show that union members earn 18% more an hour than non-union workers, which is worth some £72 over a 40 hour week (roughly 30 pints of Warsteiner on the 'RCI', or Rose and Crown Index to give it it's full technical title) ...
posted by Paul @ Tuesday, March 14, 2006
4 Comments:
Or a 168 bottles of Fosters from Morrisons!
True - but doubt you'be be able to get that 40 hours a week in if you were on 24 bottles of Foster a day!
Where on earth do your figures from.? If i was to mention this to my members they would fall over laughing. I do realise that you are probably going of national averages, unfortunatly we are no where near those figures. My wife pays more in tax than i take home.Although getting paid in beer would please most of my co-workers.
gazzelli.
Hi Gazzelli
Figures are from the DTI survey referred to in the post. As you say these are national averages, and don't mean that every union member in the UK earns an extra £70 odd, but they do show there is real (and growing in the private sector) union wage premium.
The reality is that lots of the very lowest paid sectors (hospitality, some parts of retail etc) are precisely the areas where union density is lowest - and where your could argue unions are most needed.
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