Setting the Record Straight on Public Employee Wages and Unions

By AmericanDreamer on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 10:18am |

(lead paragraph below; article has links to studies the Economic Policy Institute has done on these issues):

Widespread protests in Wisconsin over a bill that would strip public workers of their collective bargaining rights and impose sharp increases in employee contributions to health and pension benefits has raised more questions about public employee compensation in Wisconsin and elsewhere. EPI has produced an extensive body of research on the topic, showing that public workers typically see a compensation penalty relative to their counterparts in the private sector. This research, all available on EPI.org, has been widely cited in the media and by policy makers over the past week as the debate over public-sector compensation reached fever pitch.

URL:

http://www.epi.org/pages/epinews/