BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS: MAJOR DECLINE IN UNION RANKS
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Good Graph Friday: Union ranks declining
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Number of union members, in thousands
By Allison Linn, senior business writer
The effort by the Wisconsin legislature to curb union power comes at a time when overall union membership has taken a sharp hit, according to the most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The effort by the Wisconsin legislature to curb union power comes at a time when overall union membership has taken a sharp hit, according to the most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
In 2010, the BLS said union membership fell by 617,000, to 14.7 million. A decade ago, 16.3 million people were in unions.
Union members now make up 11.9 percent of the workforce. A decade ago, that figure stood at 13.4 percent.
The BLS offers a couple of other interesting tidbits about union members.
- The occupations with the highest union membership rate included education, training and library jobs.
- Black workers are more likely to be in unions than white, Asian or Hispanic workers.
- New York is the state with the highest rate of union membership.
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