Union membership grew nationally in 2011

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-union-membership-grew-nationally-in-2011-20120127,0,5321679.story



AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka meets with Columbia University Students in Cleveland last November in fight against ballot measure. (Mark Duncan/AP / November 7, 2011)

By Marc Lifsher

January 27, 2012, 12:37 p.m.

U.S. labor unions picked up 49,000 new members in 2011.

Young people between 16 and 24 years old accounted for almost a third of the new jobs, the country's biggest labor federation, the AFL-CIO, reported Friday.

"Good union jobs are beginning to come back," said AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, "despite an unprecedented volley of partisan political attacks on workers' rights and the continuing insecurity of our economic crisis."

Overall, unions gained 110,000 new jobs in the private sector last year. Part of that gain was offset by the loss of 61,000 public sector posts.

FULL story at link.

[grasswire]

1. that's very good news

Thanks.

[SlimJimmy]

2. I don't consider it good news when we lose over half of the gains in the public sector.

Overall, unions gained 110,000 new jobs in the private sector last year. Part of that gain was offset by the loss of 61,000 public sector posts.

[MannyGoldstein]

3. Fantastic! Do you have the stats for previous years?

Thanks in advance if you do!

[doc03]

4. I read in the USA Today or the Columbus Dispatch today

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that although the unions membership numbers increased the percentage of the labor force decreased from 11.9% to 11.8%.

[Scuba]

5. Thanks to Scott Walker, John Kasich, et al!!!