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Tweet[IWS] Census/CSPAN: UNION MEMBERSHIP--recorded [27 March 2015]
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New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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CSPAN
27 March 2015
UNION MEMBERSHIP
Michael Horrigan and Lydia DePillis talked about a report on private and public sector union membership rates, which showed union membership fell about 20 percent between 1983 and 2014.
This program was part of Washington Journal’s regular Friday “America by the Numbers” series.
http://www.c-span.org/video/?325050-5/washington-journal-michael-horrigan-lydia-depillis-union-membership [ßsee recorded presentation here]
Presentation (slides)
http://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/newsroom/c-span/2015/20150326_cspan_union_slides.pdf
Census
Union Membership Statistics in America, Mike Horrigan, BLS
http://www.census.gov/newsroom/cspan/2015/union.html
Speaker Biography
Associate Commissioner for Employment and Unemployment, Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
News Release
Jan. 23, 2015, UNION MEMBERS — 2014
Additional Information
Membership Rate Falls for U.S. Unions in 2014 (Wall Street Journal)
American unions membership declines as public support fluctuates (Pew Research Center)
Union Membership Ticks Up In The Private Sector (Huffington Post)
Labor union membership falls in U.S. in 2014 (MarketWatch)
The state of the unions: Membership is up, but density still drops (Washington Post)
US Reports Slight Decline in Union Membership During 2014 (The New York Times)
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