"Long-Declining Union Membership Levels Off"

[GreenPartyVoter]

WASHINGTON (AP) - Long-declining union membership leveled off last year at 12.5 percent of the work force, the Labor Department said Friday in a report labor leaders called encouraging.

Union membership was about a third of the work force a half-century ago, and was one in five, 20 percent, in 1983, when the Labor Department started keeping such data.

The department said 15.7 million workers were union members in 2005. Blacks were more likely than whites, Hispanics or Asian workers to be members of a union. Men were more likely than women to be in unions and those in the public sector were four times as likely as those in the private sector to be in unions.

Full-time workers who were union members had median weekly earnings of $801, compared with a median weekly income of $622 for workers who were not in unions.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20060121/D8F9165G0.html

[mmonk]

1. I read recently

union membership in NC is actually rising.

[joefree1]

2. When Union start to be inclusive instead of exclusive

Their membership will sky rocket. We need a Union to protect all workers not just the lucky few.


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[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

3. Looks like a job for a National Union Federation

Isn't there anything remotely like that in the USA?