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Trivia Tidbit of the Day: Part 731 -- Unions Equal Government.
Majority Of Union Members Are Government Employees-
"Union member" has become synonymous with "government employee."
Heritage has crunched the numbers:
The BLS's annual report on union membership shows the labor movement's decline in membership continued in 2009. While a full 23.0 percent of Americans belonged to labor unions in 1980, by 2008 only 12.4 percent did. In 2009, that figure dropped slightly to 12.3 percent. There are now 15.3 million union members in the United States, 770,000 fewer than in 2008.
I have written about this topic quite a bit over the years. See this post, this post, and this post for more info on unions in the private versus public sector.
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Posted by Will Franklin · 25 January 2010 03:40 PM