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Coincidence?????
http://www.newsmax.com/t/newsmax/article/620463
Union membership continues to decline in the United States, falling to an all-time low last year, a government report shows.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics report Friday shows the union membership rate was 11.1 percent last year, down 0.2 percent from the rate seen in 2012 and 2013.
The union membership rate for the public sector was 35.7 percent, and 6.6 percent in the private sector.
As of last year, there were 14.6 million people working in unions, the report shows.
One of the sharpest year-to-year drops in union membership came in Michigan: from 16.3 percent in 2013 to 14.5 percent in 2014. The decrease came in the first full year under the state's right-to-work law.
U.S. Workers World's Most Productive
Each U.S. worker produces $63,885 of wealth per year, more than their counterparts in all other countries, the International Labor Organization said in its report. Ireland comes in second at $55,986, ahead of Luxembourg, $55,641; Belgium, $55,235; and France, $54,609.
interesting unions on the decline and wages on the decline while productivity soars
Add to that this:
Union membership peaks in the mid-sixties. From there, productivity continues to rise on the same trajectory,
but wages begin to fail to keep up. From that point on, the value of the American worker ceases to be reflected in his wages.