Union Members in 2008
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/union2.pdf
Reports that union members accounted for 12.4% of employed wage and salary workers, up from 12.1% a year earlier. In 1983, the earliest year for which figures are available, unionized workers constituted 20.1% of the workforce. Also reports that government workers were nearly five times more likely to belong to a union than were private sector employees. From the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
