Jul. 26, 2003

Class Litigation Replaces Negotiation With Unions

Employment Column - By Kevin Lilly - Most people are aware that union membership has been declining for decades. In 2001, the percentage of all wage and salaried employees who were union members declined to 13.2 percent, the lowest number since 1983, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics began keeping this kind of data. In private employment, the chance that an employee is a union member is now less than one in 10.