{"id":1,"date":"2026-03-15T01:49:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T01:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/unionworkers\/?p=1"},"modified":"2026-03-15T01:51:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T01:51:38","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/unionworkers\/2026\/03\/15\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 10 Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some of the pros of labor unions for employees include the minimum wage that is set. This is usually higher than employees working for non-union entities. Resulting in workers being paid more after a long period of time. This comes with a union due to which workers then pay, but it is worth it for the quality of the work environment (Parolin &amp; VanHeuvelen, 2022). It is widely known that unions also advocate for job security and job site safety. I personally got to work with union workers during my internship. I noticed that the level of safety practices going on at the sites was a lot. Workers often expressed that the safety focus was a good thing and respected most of the practices. This aligned with everything we learned from our learning materials. In the lectures, it is explained that unions are important to keep a standard of how workers should be treated. Not only does this protect the workers, but it also creates a healthy culture within the industry. Union has a long history and took a lot of movements with the government to get to the state it is in now. Bills like the Norris-LaGuardia Act and the National Labor Relations Act (Week 10 Lecture 1). If I were to join a trade, I would aim for it to be under a union. It makes sense to have an entity fighting for your rights and advocating for a good working environment. Whether that is by practicing on-site safety, or having a minimum compensation that is good.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">References:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Parolin, Z., &amp; VanHeuvelen, T. (2022). The Cumulative Advantage of a Unionized Career for Lifetime Earnings. ILR Review, 76, 434\u2013460. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/00197939221129261%5C\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/00197939221129261\\<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cieri Mike (2026). Weekly Learning materials. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the pros of labor unions for employees include the minimum wage that is set. This is usually higher than employees working for non-union entities. Resulting in workers being paid more after a long period of time. This comes with a union due to which workers then pay, but it is worth it for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15040,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/unionworkers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/unionworkers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/unionworkers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/unionworkers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/unionworkers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/unionworkers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/unionworkers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/3"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/unionworkers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/unionworkers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/unionworkers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}