Union rolls shrunk again in 2012, adding another familiar data point to a decades-long trend of declining membership.Just 11.3 percent of wage and salary workers belonged to a union in 2012, down from 11.8 percent in 2011, according to a new report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics released on Wednesday. The percentage of workers in a union varies widely by industry and geography, however. For example, 35.9 percent of public sector workers belonged to a union versus just 6.6 percent of private sector workers. New York state had the highest union membership rate in the nation at 23.2 percent while North Carolina’s 2.9 percent rate was the lowest.
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