Posted on 03/04/2011 5:28:47 PM PST by matt04
BOSTON — Union members accounted for 14.5 percent of wage and salary workers in Massachusetts last year, down from 16.6 percent in 2009, according to federal data released Tuesday.
It was the lowest Bay State union membership rate since 2007, when unions eclipsed membership rates from the late 1990s.
The data, released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, showed 415,000 union members in Massachusetts last year, down from 476,000 in 2009 but up from a modern low of 379,000 in 2007.
Union members accounted for 11.9 percent of employed wage and salary workers in the United States during 2010, according to the bureau, with 31 states, including Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, below the U.S. average.
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According to the bureau, about half of the nation's 14.7 million union members live in six states: California, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio and New Jersey.
Those six states are all basket cases.
Their numbers fell by some 16,500 the other day in Michigan depriving the union of some 20 million dollars per year. There’s a lawsuit seeking to return some 4 million dollars to those forced into the union to begin with.
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