The past: ten cents a day for labor...Today: a little bit more

[mfcorey1]

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Respect those who have fought for labor fairness. Put the labor history in Labor Day! Peace


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/29/origins-of-labor-day_n_5736372.html

[H. Cromwell]

1. Not much to celibrate...

Labor union membership reached its peak during the 1950s, when approximately 40 percent of private-sector workers, and a significant number of government workers, belonged to labor unions, but union membership has declined sharply in recent years. In 2012, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, union membership fell to 11.3 percent of wage and salary workers nationwide, including both public- and private-sector workers, the lowest level of union participation since the 1930s.