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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Sunday, March 14, 2004 ::
Organized Labor Fights for Survival By LEIGH STROPE, AP Labor Writer
"The fact is that union membership hasn't kept up with job loss," AFL-CIO President John Sweeney said. "The jobs drain and the steady assault by the Bush administration has made a hard challenge harder. Manufacturing job losses in particular have socked not only our members but our industrial unions."
About 400,000 new members were organized last year, he said. But membership is at an all-time low, with just 12.9 percent of the work force belonging to a union last year.
That's down from 13.3 percent in 2002, according to the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics. In the private sector alone, only 8.2 percent of workers were union members last year.------------------------------------------- posted 7:44 AM :: reference link ::
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