July 18, 2003

Union label fading?
Posted by tzannos@bostonworks.com">Svetlana Husseini at 10:51 AM -

Layoffs and reorgs are factors for the decline in private industry unions. But what about government agencies? From Human Resource Executive:

That falling rate has been a constant for private industry since 1983, according to the DOL. The union membership rate for private industry workers has fallen by nearly half in the past 19 years.
In contrast, the unionization rate for government workers has held fairly steady over the time. In the latest statistics, the number of unionized public sector workers grew slightly, rising from 37.2 percent in 2001 to 37.5 percent last year.

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