Part Five:
Create a Labor Market Database
The unions of the AFL-CIO directly participate in the wage setting for over 16 million Americans. Despite being the single most important force for Americans who work in wage setting there is no union-controlled repository of labor market data.
The AFL-CIO should create a data warehouse into which all unions would feed contract settlement information and wage data. Armed with such data, unions would quickly become the most trusted source of information about wages, hours, and working conditions in America.