July 22, 1999 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Large variation in union membership
by State
The rate of union membership
varied greatly across the States in 1998. At the high end, the rate was nearly twice the
national average, while at the low end, the membership rate was less than one-third of the
national average.
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Among all employed nonagricultural wage-and-salary workers
in the United States, 13.9 percent were union members in 1998. The State with the highest
unionization rate was Hawaii, at 26.5 percent. The lowest membership rate—4.2
percent—occurred in North Carolina.
The 1998 union membership data are from the Current
Population Survey. The membership data refer to workers in both the public and private
sectors. Find more information on union membership by State in "Regional
Trends," Monthly Labor Review, June 1999.
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