-By Warner Todd Huston
The Public Service Research Foundation has finished its research into how union membership was distributed throughout the US for 2008. It looks like some very useful info:
The Public Service Research Foundation has announced that it has updated its state-by-state, sector by sector tables and charts on employment, union membership and union density for 2008 and is making them available.
Information about union membership is obtained from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Current Population Survey and is released annually in its report on Union Members http://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm
The Union Members release includes a table on employment and union membership by state, but this doesn’t include a breakdown of the information by industry sectors.
Professors Barry T. Hirsh and David A. Macpherson make annual information on union employment and union membership by state available on their web site “http://www.unionstats.com/“. This information is derived from the Current Population Survey.
The Public Service Research Foundation used this information to create a set of tables and charts on employment and union membership for each state. These cover the period 1983 through 2008 to help identify trends.
The tables and charts display employment, union membership and union density (the percent of the workforce that is unionized) total, private, public, manufacturing and construction.
Because construction employment averages only 6 percent of the total workforce the sample size of the survey at the state level makes the data more subject to statistical and sampling error. To improve the accuracy of the information the Foundation applies a five year moving average to the construction data at the state level.
“This information can be of value to public officials and others involved in public policy when making decisions about policies involving labor unions,” said Foundation President David Denholm”
Those interested in obtaining this information may inquire by sending an e-mail to david@psrf.org or by calling 703-242-3575.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer, has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and is featured on many websites such as newsbusters.org, Human Events Magazine, townhall.com, New Media Journal, Men’s News Daily and the New Media Alliance among many, many others. Additionally, he has been a frequent guest on talk-radio programs to discuss his opinion editorials and current events. He has also written for several history magazines and appears in the new book “Americans on Politics, Policy and Pop Culture” which can be purchased on amazon.com. He is also the owner and operator of publiusforum.com. Feel free to contact him with any comments or questions : EMAIL Warner Todd Huston
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