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Originally Posted by grendiers
You can ***** and moan all you want about individual stories, but, the overall impact of unions really help you and your brethren.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/24/business/union-membership-drops-despite-job-growth.html?_r=0
The Bureau of Labor Statistics said the total number of union members fell by 400,000 last year, to 14.3 million, even though the nation’s overall employment rose by 2.4 million. The percentage of workers in unions fell to 11.3 percent, down from 11.8 percent in 2011, the bureau found in its annual report on union membership. That brought unionization to its lowest level since 1916, when it was 11.2 percent, according to a study by two Rutgers economists, Leo Troy and Neil Sheflin.