In Today's NY Times, Rec-Secretary LaTonya Crisp-Sauray Calls for Gender Equality in Pay Through Unionization

TWU Local 100's Recording Secretary, LaTonya Crisp-Sauray, wrote a letter to the New York Times which is printed in today's edition. In the letter, Sister Crisp-Sauray comments on a proposal by economist Joanne Lipman that companies should post the difference between how much their male and female workers are paid. Public disclosure of the disparities in pay (female workers typically earn up to a third less than male workers) would bring pressure on the companies to equalize pay rates. But Crisp-Sauray says there's another, better solution to the problem. Pointing to her own wage as a bus operator at the MTA, she notes that the TWU's contract with the MTA mandates pay equality because it does not allow gender difference to influence salaries. "Unionize the workplace, and watch the gender disparity disappear," she writes. Read the letter here.