Union Members 2017
January 19, 2018
January 19, 2018
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following news release:
The union membership rate--the percent of wage and salary workers who were members of unions-- was unchanged at 10.7 percent in 2017, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The number of wage and salary workers belonging to unions, at 14.8 million in 2017, edged up by 262,000 from 2016. In 1983, the first year for which comparable union data are avail . . .
The union membership rate--the percent of wage and salary workers who were members of unions-- was unchanged at 10.7 percent in 2017, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The number of wage and salary workers belonging to unions, at 14.8 million in 2017, edged up by 262,000 from 2016. In 1983, the first year for which comparable union data are avail . . .