A new report based on interviews with low-wage workers found they struggle with not just wages, but a lack of benefits, insufficient safety protections and job security. BlackVoicesWTTW
The Shriver Center’s Audra Wilson said when it comes to wage workers, economic justice is a racial justice issue.
According to an analysis by the Shriver Center on Poverty Law, Black women make up 6% of employed workers, but 32% of home health aides are Black, a position where the average yearly salary is $23,000.CEO Cherita Ellens said caregiving roles such as home health aides frequently paid comparatively little.
“For many employers, it’s more expedient to be able to rely upon gig workers to not have to pay benefits,” Wilson said. “This is why we are advocating for these sorts of protections because we recognize as this industry is proliferating that ultimately it’s going to do a lot of even more damage to this population of workers. Interestingly, for employers to try to avoid paying benefits is extraordinarily shortsighted, because once it ends up happening, you have high turnover.
“We know that workers that are part of a union are paid more, we know that women who have the benefit of being represented by a union see even a larger difference than most,” Ellens said. “In Illinois, union membership increases hourly earnings by 14.7%. And for Black women that are part of a union, they’re making 23% more than Black women who are not in a union. So this is one of those things that we know that we need to continue to protect and continue to fight for.
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