Equal Pay For Equal Work: Its Continued Absence And The New UPS Contract – Eugene Steuerle

“The recent contract agreed by UPS and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, at least as advertised, would end some practices that provide unequal pay for equal work. UPS, like a lot of companies and governments, promotes this type of inequity when it creates a lower-paid class of workers and relies upon both part-time and contract workers who often get lower pay, particularly in the form of employee benefits…

“On an economy-wide basis, unequal pay for unequal work makes for a less productive society.”

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