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Petrushka

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Thu Jan-05-06 11:36 PM
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8. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (US Dept. of Labor) . . .

. . . (nationally) "About 23.7 percent of workers in coal mining...were union members in 2002...." (Of course, not all union miners belong to the UMWA. But, when it comes to questioning how many do belong . . . well, I have no idea.]

In any case: For everything you didn't know you wanted to know about mining statistics, see the following website:

http://www.bls.gov/oco/cg/cgs004.htm

As for the decline in union membership in the coal industry: Blame most of it on the fact that advanced technologies--longwall mining and mountaintop removal mining methods--replaced men with machinery. Like: Who needs coal miners?!

Considering that more and more coal is being mined by fewer and fewer men, perhaps the UMWA (and other unions) might figure out, yet, how to collect union dues from robots.

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Reply #8: According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (US Dept. of Labor) . . . [View All]