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Union Interests Work Against Low-Wage Workers: http://www.economics21.org/commentary/union-interests-work-against-low-wage-workers-2014-12-09

Diana Furchtgott-Roth | 12/09/2014



This article originally appeared in RealClearMarkets.

A few days after the latest round of fast food demonstrations, when the Service Employees International Union tried to get workers all over the country to go out on strike to demand $15 an hour, a newly published National Bureau of Economic Research paper confirms what most of us already know: minimum wage increases harm the earnings and job mobility of low-skill workers.

University of California (San Diego) economics professors Jeffrey Clemens and Michael Wither looked at the effects of changing the federal minimum wage from 2007 to 2009. During that period, the wage rose in three installments from $5.15 an hour to $7.25 an hour. During the same period, the percent of the population that was employed, known as the employment-population ratio, declined by 4 percentage points among adults aged 25 to 44 and by 8 percentage points among those aged 15 to 24.

The average worker faced a 30 percent minimum wage increase. This is far less than the more than 100 percent increase that the SEIU is seeking for fast food workers. The SEIU proposed wage increase to $15 would cause far greater damage.

The SEIU and its affiliates, Fast Food Forward, also known as Fight for 15, called for $15 an hour wages and a union. Although the SEIU was trying to organize strikes, the fast food workers had not voted for the SEIU, or any other union, to represent them. The SEIU and Fast Food Forward were self-appointed and self-anointed. The SEIU was after not only the 2 percent to 4 percent dues payments, but also the $40 to $50 dollar initiation fees for joining the union.

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