Worker friendly.

• Position: STATELINE - Work Environment Index' survey - Brief Article

The Work Environment Index recently rated working environments in all 50 states and Washington, D.C., in terms of average pay, employment opportunities, employee benefits, percentage of low-income workers, fair treatment between genders and ability for employees to unionize. The report, "Decent Work in America: The 2005 Work Environment Index, is available www.umass.edu/peri. It is the first index to evaluate worker climate as opposed to business climate on a state-by-state basis, it was...