Connecticut union membership rose to 16.9 percent in 2008 from a year earlier, in line with a general increase in union representation nationwide, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports.
In 2007, Connecticut’s union membership 15.6 percent of the 1,617,000 employed wage and salary workers, the agency said. The state’s non-farm employment was 1,625,000 in 2008.
Nationally, union members accounted for 12.4 percent of employed wage and salary workers, up from
12.1 percent a year earlier, the BLS said.
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The number of workers belonging to a union rose by 428,000 to 16.1 million.
In 1983, the first year for which comparable union data are available, the union membership rate was 20.1 percent, and there were 17.7 million union workers.
