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January 26, 2017 (Union Membership Byte)
By Cherrie Bucknor
Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released data on union membership for 2016. Using that report, and additional analysis of the raw data, this paper presents trends in union membership from 1983 to 2016.