Why are so many workers unionizing? It’s easy to find the answer to that question when looking at their paychecks.

Using data from last year, the Economic Policy Institute and The Shift Project just released a wage tracker tool that reveals what 66 of the biggest employers in the United States pay their employees – and the wage difference between CEOs and low-level workers is staggering. 

Do you want to find out how much brands like Lowe’s, Amazon, CVS, Walgreens, and many others are paying their workers? Use the wage tracker tool to find out.

It's shocking to see how many of these businesses pay most of their workforce low wages while their CEOs earn millions. For example, the tracker shows us that Starbucks raked in $23.5 billion in revenue last year and its CEO made just over $5 million, but 63% of Starbucks' 225,529 workers earn less than $15 per hour.

As the minimum wage has stagnated over the past 13 years, enthusiasm for unions has snowballed among low-wage workers. Successful union elections have been held at an Amazon warehouse on Staten Island and a pair of Verizon stores in Washington state. Earlier this week, five Starbucks locations in Richmond, Virginia, all overwhelmingly voted to unionize. Workers at a flagship Apple Store in New York have also begun collecting signatures to hold a union election. 

The fact is, employees are launching an unprecedented grassroots push to unionize. Once this historic union push has taken hold around the country, some of the nation's largest employers now throwing millions of dollars into expensive (and seemingly ineffectual) union-busting campaigns might consider a $15 minimum wage to be a bargain.

Check out the wage tracker tool here. If you want to share the wage tracker tool with your social network, you can click on one of the buttons below. >>>

Thanks for reading, 

Paul Constant