Amid Spreading Job Losses, Union Membership Across Country Rises To 12.4 Percent Of Work Force

[Purveyor]

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid widening unemployment, home foreclosures and credit woes, union membership jumped to 12.4 percent of the work force last year.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics says the ranks of organized labor rose by 428,000 workers — the biggest annual gain since the government began compiling such data in 1983. It's also the second year in a row that unions have added to their ranks. Membership rose by 311,000 members in 2007, to account for 12.1 percent of workers.

Overall, union membership remains well below the peak of 35 percent during labor's heyday of the 1950s. Membership was about 20 percent in 1983, the first year the bureau began compiling the numbers.

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[kimmylavin]

1. Of course it did.

Jeez, what was it that finally got these people?
Paid overtime?
Healthcare?
Decent wage?
Organizing power?
Those evil, socialist unions starting to look a bit better now, aren't they?

Union family here.
Happy to be, always will be...