Obamacare and The Unions and Union Membership Info (statistics, Hispanic, compared)

[LauraC]

In reading this story about the longshoremen ending their AFL-CIO association...:

"In what is being reported as a surprise move, the 40,000 members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) announced that they have formally ended their association with the AFL-CIO, one of the nation's largest private sector unions. The Longshoremen citied Obamacare and immigration reform as two important causes of their disaffiliation."

Citing Obamacare, 40,000 Longshoremen Quit the AFL-CIO

I happened upon this link to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) about union membership in general. Some of the stats are suprising to me. I thought some here might want to bookmark it for future P&OC posts related to unions if you need numbers to back up your opinion. These are some stats that the BLS press release for the 2012 data fleshes out with tables (at the end of the article) if you want to see more (for example, how each state ranked in union membership):

"In 2012, 7.3 million employees in the public sector belonged to a union, compared with 7.0 million union workers in the private sector. Public-sector workers had a union membership rate (35.9 percent) more than five times higher than that of private-sector workers (6.6 percent).

Workers in education, training, and library occupations and in protective service occupations had the highest unionization rates, at 35.4 and 34.8 percent, respectively.

Black workers were more likely to be union members than were white, Asian, or Hispanic workers.

Among states, New York continued to have the highest union membership rate (23.2 percent), and North Carolina again had the lowest rate (2.9 percent)."

Union Members Summary

Now I know the numbers behind why Washington state (19.5%) unions were all upset over Boeing's expansion onto NC (2.9%).

For people who know if their own states are right to work states, and considering the state with the highest percentage of union workers is NY (23.2%), do you see a high union membership percentage in your state? It's the Table V link and the last column on the list of states. I'd be curious if any right to work state has high union membership.

[HappyTexan]

Originally Posted by LauraC

For people who know if their own states are right to work states, and considering the state with the highest percentage of union workers is NY (23.2%), do you see a high union membership percentage in your state? It's the Table V link and the last column on the list of states. I'd be curious if any right to work state has high union membership.

I grew up in NYC. The only way you got a union job was to be invited by someone already in the union.
If you didn't know someone then forget it.

My grandfather worked on the docks in NYC and you didn't mess with that union..no way, no how.

[doc1]

As TheOne stated, "elections have consequences", lol.