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Overall Union Membership Notches Up from 2010 to 2011
Overall union membership increased by 49,000 from 2010 to 2011, including 15,000 new 16- to 24-year-old members, according to new U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data out this morning. An increase of 110,000 in the private sector was partially offset by a decline of 61,000 in the public sector, making the rate of union membership essentially unchanged at 11.8 percent, with some 14.8 million U.S. workers union members.
Public-sector density increased from 36.2 percent to 37 percent though November 2011. Private-sector union membership remains at 6.9 percent. The largest increases in union membership were in construction, health care services, retail trade, primary metals and fabricated metal products, hospitals, transportation and warehousing.
Bottom line, says AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka:
Despite an unprecedented volley of partisan political attacks on workers’ rights and the continuing insecurity of our economic crisis, union membership increased slightly last year. Working men and women want to come together and to improve their lives.
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GOP-They woke up the sleeping giant….solidarity
Right on, Griff, right on!
If we could ever get a level playing field the numbers of people ready and willing to organize would increase significantly. I wonder how many wall street secrtaries and gofors would want to sign on?
I do not want a “level playing field” where either side can lie, I want an HONEST playing field with strong inescapable penalties for lying and for subversion!
Republicans are full of crap! Get rid of unions? Pay teachers by their performance? Who’s going to be in charge of that? The man who recieves the most sexual favors or who thinks one teacher might be more attractive than the other? Or just maybe the teacher who might want to teach that “Reagan was the father of our country”? That itself could earn her a raise! Unions hold jackasses like these accountable! These Republicans talk all this patriotic crap, yet forget a very important creed… “United we stand, divided we fall”!!!
I am for more union membership and higher taxes to pay for the entitlement programs.
Coal miners are going to lose their jobs. Obama shutting down coal fire plants that produce electricty. He shuts down oil drilling and that is causing more unemployment. Obama is not doing things good for the worker.
Every time Anus-throat opens his mouth, the disgusting smell of thick slippery stuff permeates the air.