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State of the Unions: Holding Their Own in Turbulent Times

In a surprise turnaround of a decades-long decline, the percentage of union employees nationwide held steady in 2013 compared with 2012, according to the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). So reports The Wall Street Journal.

 

Also quite unexpectedly, the number of union members in the private sector was slightly higher than those in the public sector year-over-year. While the numbers were hailed by supporters of organized labor, they weren’t dismissed by at least one anti-union group, which acknowledged an uptick in efforts to unionize workers, especially in “non-traditional industries.”

 

Echoing President Obama’s State-of-the-Union pledge to narrow the country’s widening income gap, Secretary of Labor Tom Perez suggested that union membership can still serve as an entrée to middle-class status.

 

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