Washington, DC (Vocus) November 12, 2009 -- A new report by the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) documents a large wage and benefit advantage for Asian Pacific American (APA) workers in unions, relative to their non-union counterparts.

The report, "Unions and Upward Mobility for APA Workers," analyzes data from the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey (CPS) from the period 2003-2007 to reveal a number of advantages of unionization for APA workers.

”As a share of the union workforce, only Latinos are growing at a rate faster than Asian Pacific Americans,” said Nicole Woo, Director of Domestic Policy at CEPR and an author of the report. “While this is reflective of workforce tr in general, the data show that joining a union makes a big difference in the wages and benefits of APA workers."

The report finds that unionization raises the pay of APA workers by about $2.00 per hour. APA workers are 19 percentage points more likely to have employer-provided health insurance and 25 percentage points more likely to have an employer-provided pension plan than their non-union counterparts.

Among the other findings in the study:

The full analysis can be found here.