Union membership held steady in the
United States in 2013, but is down by 3.2-million since such membership began
to be counted by the federal government 30 years ago.
According to the U.S. Bureau of
Labor Statistics, in 2013 the union membership rate -- the percent of wage and
salary workers who were members of unions -- was 11.3 percent, the same as in
2012. The number of wage and salary workers belonging to unions last year, 14.5
million, was little different from 2012.
In 1983, the first year for which
comparable union membership data are available, the union membership rate was
20.1 percent, and there were 17.7 million union workers.
Public-sector workers had a union
membership rate (35.3 percent) more than five times higher than that of
private-sector workers (6.7 percent). In 2013, 7.2 million employees in the
public sector belonged to a union, compared with 7.3 million workers in the
private sector
Among major race and ethnicity
groups, African-American workers had a higher union membership rate in 2013
(13.6 percent) than workers who were white (11.0 percent), Asian
(9.4 percent),
or Hispanic (9.4 percent).
Among the states, New York continued
to have the highest union membership rate
(24.4 percent),
followed by Alaska (23.1 percent) and Hawaii (22.1 percent). North Carolina had
the lowest rate (3.0 percent), while the union membership rate in Florida was
5.4%. With a total of 7,655,000 persons employed in Florida, 414,000 were union
members in 2013. The U.S. average by state was 11.3 percent.
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