Union membership 2011

• In 2011, union membership increased 49,000 last year to 14.76 million. However, the Union membership rate declined by just 10 basis points in 2011 to 11.8% according to BLS data.
(The Business Insider)
• The percentage of workers represented by a union dipped slightly in 2011, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Friday, as organized labor came under attack in states once considered union strongholds, including Wisconsin and Ohio. In 2011, 11.
(msnbc.com)
• That bitter debate spurred the largest street marches in Madison since the Vietnam War and two rounds of recall elections so far. Only 14.1 percent of the states workers were unionized at the end of 2011, the BLS said, down from 15.1 percent in 2010.
(CNBC)
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(Worldnews.com)
• The 49,000-worker increase in overall union membership in the U.S. in 2011 isnt much. Its not much in raw numbers, and despite it the union membership rate edged down from 11.9 percent in 2010 to 11.8 percent in 2011.
(DAILY KOS)
• City firefighters have been due that pay increase since January 2011, Frank said s best for the city, our membership and the ­citizens.
(Tacoma News Tribune)
• Jan. 27 (Bloomberg) -- The rate of union membership in the U.S. fell to a record low in 2011 for a second-straight year, as a loss of government jobs partially offset a rise in private- sector employees, the Labor Department said.
(Businessweek)
• In May of 2011, he completed his certificate for the Masters of Public Administration from Kean University.
(NJ.com)
• As the United Nations International Year of Cooperatives gets underway, not-for-profit credit unions across the United States are starting the year with a surge of interest from consumers in financial cooperatives – i.e., credit unions.
(PR-USA.net)
• Jury selection is slated to start Thursday in the trial of Dhoruba Shuaib in the fatal stabbing of 17-year-old Tyler Rhodes in Albanys Hoffman Park on the night of April 30, 2011.
(Times Union)