January 2015
Beginner
480 pages
32h 52m
English
Briefly describe the U.S. labor movement.
Today, almost 15 million U.S. workers belong to unions—about 11.1% of the total number of men and women working in America—and another 1.5 million are covered by union agreements but don’t report being union members. 1 Almost 36% of public-sector workers belong to unions, including heavily unionized occupations such as teachers, police officers, and firefighters. In some private-sector industries such as utilities (22.3% unionization), transportation and warehousing (19.6%), and telecommunications (14.8%), it can still be hard to get jobs without joining unions. And unions today are successfully organizing “new media” firms like salon.com, Gawker Media, and ...
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