Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Union membership falls to lowest percentage in 76 years | Reuters

A UAW local 588 assembly worker moves automobile parts around at the Ford Motor Company's Chicago Stamping facility in Chicago Heights, Illinois April 4, 2012. REUTERS/Jeff Haynes
 The total number of union members fell by nearly 400,000, from 11.8 percent of the workforce in 2011, the Labor Department report on union membership said. The rate of 11.3 percent of the workforce was the lowest since 1936, when Franklin Roosevelt was president.

Union membership falls to lowest percentage in 76 years | Reuters

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