Ohio Union rate falls to lowest level ever

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.tribune-chronicle.com/page/content.detail/id/503265.html

Ohio’s union membership rate in 2007 slipped to the lowest recorded level in the 19 years of a government survey, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics said Monday.

Some 14.1 percent of wage and salary workers in the state belonged to unions, similar to 14.2 percent in 2006 but well below the state’s peak of 21.3 percent union membership in 1989, the government said.

About 730,000 Ohio workers were union members last year. Another 67,000 workers were represented by a union on their main job or were covered by an employee association or contract while not being union members themselves.

Nationally, union members represented 12.1 percent of all workers in 2007, basically unchanged from 12 percent in 2006 but below the national peak of 20.1 percent in 1983, the first year for which comparable data were available.

Nearly 15.7 million workers were union members across the nation, plus another 1.6 million who were represented but not actually union members.

Four of the five states in the East North Central division — Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin — had union membership rates above the national average in 2007. Indiana ranked slightly below the national average.

There are a lot of pissed off former union members that lost jobs in the rust belt since Jan. 01. This can only help Dems in Nov.

[lib2DaBone]

1. Definition of Insanity

Insanity- Doing the same thing over and over.. yet expecting a different result. When J&L Steel and Republic Steel left Ohio, the Unions did nothing and Ohioians voted Republican. When Ford and GM shipped jobs to Mexico, the UAW did nothing and Ohioians voted REPUBLICAN. When Bendix Brake, Rubbermaid & Delphi left Ohio...(you get the picture) Ohioians voted REPUBLICAN. What can I say?