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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Sunday, March 02, 2003 ::
Big Labor's confab -- The Washington Times Labor leaders, many of whom have been implicated in the seething ULLICO insider-trading scandal, gathered for their annual winter meeting in Florida this week. Their timing was bad.
Not long after the confab had been called to order at the luxurious Westin Diplomat Resort and Spa in Hollywood, Fla., the Labor Department announced that the ranks of organized labor declined by more than a quarter-million workers last year, falling to 16.1 million union members. As a proportion of total workers, union membership fell to 13.1 percent. (Among workers employed in the private sector, it is now well below 10 percent.) It was the 19th consecutive year that the proportion of union workers to all workers has declined. Over that period, the proportion of workers who are unionized has plummeted 35 percent.------------------------------------------- posted 6:06 AM :: reference link ::
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