Blacks hit hard as automaker jobs go south
March 1, 2006
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March 1, 2006 – As American auto factory jobs have steadily moved south into nonunion plants over the past 25 years, African-Americans have been hit hardest by the loss.
Whites and Latinos also are losing ground, but the decline in steady, high-paying union work is far greater among blacks, according to a study by the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a Washington-based think tank.
“Union jobs in auto (plants) have been one of the most important sources of well-paid employment for African-Americans since World War II,” said John Schmitt, one of two economists behind the study. Read the article here.
