Despite Criticisms, Solar Industry Hires More and Pays Higher for Union Labor
May 06, 2021 07:00 AM EDT (Photo : Science in HD on Unsplash) Monitoring Labor Unions (Photo : Pixabay) In 2019, Ed Gilliland, the foundation's senior director, told HuffPost, "The last time we were monitoring union labor, it was anything like 3% of the total workforce." "It was a small group of people. We believe it is still fairly small." As a result, when the group's survey figures were collected this year, Gilliland came to an unexpected conclusion: more than 10% of the industry has already unionized. The discovery, combined with a rosy view of employment instead of other energy markets, ...