Post by Logan on Mar 1, 2016 14:06:37 GMT -6
The number of New Jersey workers belonging to a labor union continued to slide in 2015, dropping to its lowest level in at least 10 years, according to data compiled by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The agency looked at two different figures, the number of union members and the number of workers represented by a union, finding declines in both between 2014 and 2015 and continuing a slide that has been ongoing since 2005.
In 2005, 791,000 of the state's 3.8 million non-self-employed workers belonged to a union. A decade later, while the total size of the workforce had grown only slightly, the number of union members plummeted, to 596,000 workers.
While union membership rose between 2013 and 2014, it dropped again the following year, by about 6 percent between 2014 and 2015, according to BLS figures.
Read more: www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2016/03/union_membership_continues_to_drop_in_nj.html
The agency looked at two different figures, the number of union members and the number of workers represented by a union, finding declines in both between 2014 and 2015 and continuing a slide that has been ongoing since 2005.
In 2005, 791,000 of the state's 3.8 million non-self-employed workers belonged to a union. A decade later, while the total size of the workforce had grown only slightly, the number of union members plummeted, to 596,000 workers.
While union membership rose between 2013 and 2014, it dropped again the following year, by about 6 percent between 2014 and 2015, according to BLS figures.
Read more: www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2016/03/union_membership_continues_to_drop_in_nj.html