Kickstarter Senior Staffers Are Pushing Back Against Colleagues' Union Efforts

Re:Kickstarter Senior Staffers Are Pushing Back Against Coll... by tfehring on Friday March 22, 2019 @04:31PM (#19466595)

I don't have a great intuition for this, so I looked it up. It looks like Black workers are more likely than White workers to be union members, while workers of other racial minorities are less likely [0]:

> Among major race and ethnicity groups, Black workers continued to have a higher union membership rate in 2018 (12.5 percent) than workers who were White (10.4 percent), Asian (8.4 percent), or Hispanic (9.1 percent).

But it's possible that the story is different for construction workers or for other individual sectors.

[0] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.htm

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Re:Kickstarter Senior Staffers Are Pushing Back Against Coll... by exolymph on Saturday March 23, 2019 @02:52AM (#19469361)

I'm sure that it varies somewhat by industry. But also, the absolute populations of white and black people in America are pretty different, so it matters how you measure this. A higher proportion of blacks could be union members, and still the absolute number of white union members could be larger.

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Re:Kickstarter Senior Staffers Are Pushing Back Against Coll... by niij on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @09:36AM (#19491628)

How else would you want them to measure it besides ratios? What would absolute numbers mean in this context?

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