1/3 OF NONUNION WORKERS

cannot sue their employers

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“While many Americans think that they can bring a lawsuit if their employer violates the law, for almost a third of nonunion workers (or approximately 36 million people), that is not true.”

Caroline Frederickson, Under the Bus: How Working Women are Being Run Over, (New York: The New York Press, 2015).

POOR

REGULATION

leads to workplace abuse

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“Despite being subject to laws concerning health and safety and workers' rights, the industry (beauty industry) is poorly regulated and generally non-unionized, which contributes to the abuses of employment standards.”

Paula Black, The Beauty Industry: gender, culture, pleasure, (London: Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2004).

ISSUES OF GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT

means difficulty paying off debt

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“Three years after completing their program, the average cosmetologist earns only $16,600 a year, which is $8,600 below the average earnings of workers with only a high school diploma, and only $3,000 above the single-person poverty guideline. In addition, cosmetology students graduate with an average of $10,200 in student loan debt.”

Carolyn Fast, Peter Granville, and Tiara Moultrie,“Cosmetology Training Needs a Make-Over,” THE CENTURY FOUNDATION, 
July 14, 2022.