The New York Time 01/28/12
Union Membership Rate Fell Again in 2011
The nation’s union membership rate continued a decades-long slide last year, falling to 11.8% of the American work force in 2011, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced in a report on Friday.
That was down from 11.9% the previous year even though total union membership edged up, rising by 49,000 last year to 14.76%.
The bureau announced these numbers as the nation’s labor unions have been coming under heavy political attacks.
Moreover, Indiana is poised to become the first state in more than a decade to enact a “right to work” law which bans employers and unions from agreeing to contracts that require workers to pay fees for union representation.
The percentage of public sector workers in unions was 37% last year, more than five times the 6.9% membership rate for private sector workers
The bureau found that New York had the highest unionization rate and South Carolina has the lowest rate.
Common Sense Review
People realize the unions are not the same as they were at the beginning of the 1900s. They are more corrupt now than before when they work alongside the mafia.
As well as most American see that if the union holds out for more money or benefit and the company closes they are out of a job... People can decide for themselves what acceptable relationship between employee and employer…is
I'd still join a union, if available. The evil empire of the rich has been sticking it to the working class for years and allowing unsuitable working conditions. My god, if I work in the state capitol as a government employee I might get a paper cut, and if it gets infected and I never can work again... You want to take that away?
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