[khelus]

... we are experiencing record low union membership. Unions are dying.

"In 2011, the union membership rate--the percent of wage and salary workers who were members of a union--was 11.8 percent, essentially unchanged from 11.9 percent in 2010, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.

The number of wage and salary workers belonging to unions, at 14.8 million, also showed little movement over the year.

In 1983, the first year for which comparable union data are available, the union membership rate was 20.1 percent and there were 17.7 million union workers.

UNION MEMBERS -- 2011

Currently there are ~154,000,000 in the civilian labor force.

[central_va]

Highlights from the 2011 data:

--Public-sector workers had a union membership rate (37.0 percent) more than five times higher than that of private-sector workers (6.9 percent). (See table 3.)

Private sector membership is less than 7%. You fail.

Freepers the union participation rate for the private sector is less than 7%. Commit it to memory.

[cherry]

union membership of govt workers is ever increasing, since govt “work” is ever increasing....