Posted on 01/29/2013 5:58:35 AM PST by RoosterRedux
Overall union membership dropped by about 400,000 members from 2011 to 2012, a decline of 11.8 to 11.3 percent of the U.S. workforce. But the worst news for union leaders is where the decline occurred: in what had been their only growth sector, government workers.
More than half of the loss came among government workers. The majority of union members are now government workers and government workers have a union membership rate of 37 percent, about five times higher than the private sector.
An irony for private-sector labor unions has always been that their larger ideological aims of protecting workers from abuse are often at odds with their more urgent objectives of growing membership rolls and increasing dues payments.
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Top heavy rolls of Government employees have been the downfall of nations throughout all history. Several Chinese Dynasties fell from that cause alone. We are not immune.
If I’ve said it once I’ve said it a hundred times - the road to liberty is thru the states. This article proves it.
We need to CRUSH the public unions. That is where the dues money to re-elect Democrats comes from. Right-to-work, no fair share, no state dues collection, mandatory for state workers to pay an equivalent percentage for insurance and retirement, etc., etc. etc.
Time to kill the union ATM machine.
The bankrupt states have the highest taxes and the fattest public sector unions. Duh.
It’s clear now Hilda Solis got outta town one step ahead of the avalanche of bad news.
And with the DC Circuit ruling on recess appointments to the NRLB, back door Card Check has been put on ice too.
Richie Trumka, you been PLAYED!!!!!!
“their larger ideological aims of protecting workers from abuse”
35% of government workers unionized vs 6% private sector? Something doesn’t make sense here. Is government the one abusing employees or is it the savior and god that Americans should worship?
They need to make up their minds.
Its a pretty desperate act and it could be interesting to see how these overpaid profs react to the idea that they’ll be unable to grab more money at will until 2023.
Also it sounds like universities can be stripped of some funding if they do grant the extension. However, the extension itself may be illegal.
The good part about a government union is that it can wiped out with a stroke of a pen.
It exists for the benefits of the politicians
I wouldn’t exactly call a “a decline of 11.8 to 11.3 percent of the U.S. workforce” a sign that union membership in the USA is crumbling. Sure, the trend is currently headed in the right direction, but it is hardly “crumbling”. If the economy improves much at all, those numbers will be back up, especially in the public sector as governments hire more employees.
Imagine if GM had been allowed to go into bankruptcy, and the union costs were eliminated from the company acquiring the assets.
-——Imagine if GM had been allowed to go into bankruptcy——
My GM bonds would have been paid back instead of paying some UAW union stewards bill at a whorehouse
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