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SHRED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-26-10 03:02 PM
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What percentage of the USA labor force (public and private)...

...is unionized?

Isn't it less than 10%?


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SomeGuyInEagan Donating Member (872 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-26-10 03:16 PM
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1. 12.3 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Labor
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm
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SHRED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-26-10 05:53 PM
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4. thanks
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Earth Bound Misfit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-26-10 03:29 PM
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2. From the same report...
Union membership rate for public sector workers (37.4 percent) was substantially higher than the rate for private industry workers (7.2 percent).
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Omaha Steve Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-26-10 03:58 PM
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3. Partly because of large unionized layoffs in the private sector (China etc)

The numbers of public workers in unions only passed the private sector in the last year.
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