The Wall Street Journal recently reported that two nonprofit community groups, backed by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union and the United Steelworkers, successfully began the process of organizing nearly 200 carwash workers in Los Angeles and New York.
Under their union contracts, New York carwash workers who had been paid $7.25 an hour will now receive $7.53 an hour, including tips, along with five days of paid sick leave for the first time. Their pay rate will jump to $9.18 an hour by the third and final year of the contract.