10.2190/9YYP-7T3A-KVW9-4RNR 9YYP7T3AKVW94RNR 0 THE EFFECT OF UNIONS ON THE COMPENSATION OF SECRETARIES IN MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT 20020509 20020509 20020509 20020509 http://baywood.metapress.com/link.asp?target=contribution&id=9YYP7T3AKVW94RNR 1 DAVID B. BALKIN Using a wage model with ordinary least squares regression, the effects of unions on the 1978 monthly salaries of secretaries in municipal government were analyzed for a group of forty cities and suburbs in a large urban labor market in the midwest. The union variable reached statistical significance in both regression equations. Unionized secretaries received a 6.5 percent salary advantage when compared to the salaries of nonunion secretaries. Other significant variables that influenced municipal wages were city population and labor mobility.