Union members make up 20.2% of state’s workers
Saturday, March 13, 2010
In 2009, 574,000 workers were members of a union in Washington, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. That number accounted for 20.2 percent of wage and salary workers, compared with 19.8 percent in 2008. At its peak in 1993, Washington’s union membership rate was 23.8 percent.
Nationally, the number of union workers fell by 771,000 to 15,327,000 in 2009, due to the recession. Union members accounted for 12.3 percent of employed wage and salary workers compared with 12.4 percent a year earlier. In 1983, the first year for which comparable national union data were available, the union membership rate was 20.1 percent. Since 1989, when comparable state data became available, Washington has had union membership rates above the U.S. average.
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