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Article: Labor Statistics Show Decline in Union Membership As Leaders Meet in Florida.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- February 26, 2003
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By T. Shawn Taylor, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 26--HOLLYWOOD, Fla.--As labor leaders gather to discuss how to outwit an administration in Washington they perceive as hostile, they received more bad news: Union membership continues to fall.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Tuesday that membership fell by 280,000, to 16.1 million, last year. The decline also means a loss in labor's overall share of the workforce to 13.2 percent, from 13.4 percent in 2001. That's down from a high of 20.1 percent in 1983.
Labor leaders, in town for the winter meeting of the AFL-CIO's executive council, said they weren't ...