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From 1971 to the late 1980s, there was a 10% drop in union membership in the U.S. public sector and a 42% drop in union membership in the U.S. private sector. [8] For comparison, there was no drop in union membership in the private sector in Sweden. In other countries drops included: [9] 2% in Canada, 3% in Norway, 6% in West Germany, 7% in ...
Finland's equivalent is the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions, with about one million members out of the country's 5.2 million inhabitants. In addition, there are two other Finnish union confederations for more educated workers, with combined membership of approximately one million. In Denmark union density in 2015 was 68%. [2]
Union membership was 7.4% in private sector, but 39% in the public sector. In the five largest states, California has 15.9% union membership, Texas 4.5%, Florida 6.8%, New York 24.7% (the highest in the country), and Illinois had 15.2%. [4] In December 2021, 14.3% of the Australian workforce were union members; this was a decline of more than 5 ...
During the last 10 years, union membership was at its highest in 2017 at 14,744,00 – some 300,000 union members more than now. Since 2013, the lowest number of union members were in 2020 and ...
Vatican City has a customs union in effect with Italy. 2 Andorra, Monaco, San Marino and Vatican City are not members of Schengen, but act as such via their open borders with Spain, France and Italy, respectively. 3 Switzerland is not an official member of EEA but has bilateral agreements largely with the same content, making it virtually a member.
The following is a list of major independent trade unions, which are solely accountable to their members and free from employer domination as it stood on 31 March 2012. [ 2 ] Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen ASLEF
According to the Copenhagen criteria, membership of the European Union is open to any European country that is a stable, free-market liberal democracy that respects the rule of law and human rights. Furthermore, it has to be willing to accept all the obligations of membership, such as adopting all previously agreed law (the 170,000 pages of ...
These countries are not on the agenda of the EU to be members, nor their own. (See: Azerbaijan–European Union relations and Kazakhstan–European Union relations) Canada is a non-European country with values, culture, trade, and politics closely linked with the EU. Its membership has been proposed due to this. [209]