Union membership v.personal freedom it is a very difficult choice to make. Union membership give a strong support to employees legally and in many other areas.Union membership are most popular in socialist and communist countries,where people mostly looking to satisfy their basic survivor needs.Meaning getting paycheck that will assure food,shelter and clothing.United States is a consider a individualist type of country which means we prefer personal freedom over collectivism(union membership).
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*A majority of union members now work for the government, partly because massive layoffs in the recession plunged the private sector's union levels to a record low.
-Local, state and government workers make up 51.5 percent of all union members — becoming the majority of organized labor for the first time, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.
-Private sector union membership plummeted by 10 percent last year, while government unions posted slight gains.
-The shift shows the continued difficulty unions face in trying to revive a movement that has declined steadily since its peak of about 35 percent of workers in the 1950s. And it undermines the traditional ability of unions to push private sector wages higher.
-Overall, union membership declined by 771,000 workers, to 15.3 million. That's 12.3 percent among all workers, dropping from 12.4 percent in 2008.
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*www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2010/ted_20100201.htm
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