Union membership grows in 2008

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes data on union membership annually. In 2008, for the first time since the BLS begin keeping the data, union membership increased significantly to 12.4% of the employed wage and salaried workers (it was 12.0% in 2006). Of course in Louisiana its lower (4.6 percent union membership, 5.6 represented by union). The surprising thing to me is in Mississippi its higher than Louisiana (5.3 percent union membership, 7.3 represented by union).