By Dick Meister
Women are well on the way to overtaking men in the ranks of organized labor
— and for good reason. As a new study shows, women who’ve joined unions have significantly better pay and benefits than working women who have not joined.
Although only about a fifth of women workers overall currently belong to unions, they already make up about 45 percent of all unionized workers. They’re expected to become a majority within a dozen years, according to the study by the Center for Economic and Policy Research.