“In 2011, the union membership rate was 11.8 percent, essentially unchanged from 11.9 percent in 2010,” the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on January 27. while in the public sector (which now accounts for 50 percent of the country’s union members), union membership has gone from 36.2 up to 37 percent, the global rate is stable because, as an answer to budget difficulties at all government levels, more than half a million civil servant jobs were cut in one year. Meanwhile, private sector workers belonging to a union are still 6.9 percent because of an increase in union membership at the same time as an increase in the wage bill.
jobs were cut in one year. Meanwhile, private sector workers belonging to a union are still 6.9 percent because of an increase in union membership at the same time as an increase in the wage bill.
Richard Trumka, leader of the largest labor union, AFL-CIO, said, “It is telling that as our country begins to recover the jobs lost during the Great Recession, good union jobs are beginning to come back.” Thus, even though Florida has the highest increase in the number of union members, three...
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