Why union members earn higher wages than their non-union colleagues
- Written by Craig MacMillan, Lecturer in Economics, Macquarie University
Over recent decades in Australia union membership has fallen from 40% of the workforce in 1990 to 15% in 2016 and so unions might seem less relevant in making a difference to what we earn. But our research finds that union members do earn higher wages per hour than non-union members.
This is because union members have more experience with their...