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In the United States, union membership had declined by 14%. [4] In 2008, 12.4% of U.S. wage and salary workers were union members. 36.8% of public sector workers were union members, but only 7.6% of workers in private sector industries were. [5] The most unionized sectors of the economy have had the greatest decline in union membership.
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 percentage points since 2010 and nearly 10 percentage points since 2005. [5]
September 5 is Labor Day for 2022. Insider looked back at how union membership rates have changes since the '80s.
From January 2007, the Swedish state decreased its financial support to the unemployment funds (most of them union-run, a few funds aimed for small entrepreneurs and one independent fund), with the result being that membership fees to unemployment funds had to be raised considerably, and union density declined from 77% in 2006 to 71% in 2008. [1]
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The same data set from BLS shows that union membership is not back at pre-pandemic levels. ... During the last 10 years, union membership was at its highest in 2017 at 14,744,00 – some 300,000 ...
Union wage premiums show the direct benefits of being a member of a union. Although the union wage premiums have fallen for private sector, it has raised for the public sector in the U.S. [6] Union wage premiums also usually raise the wages of low-skilled workers more than those of high-skilled workers. [2]
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