Connecticut’s union membership is at its lowest in four years, U.S. data shows.
According to a report Tuesday from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, 16.7 percent of Connecticut’s wage and salaried workers belonged to a union in 2010, down from 17.3 percent a year earlier.
Connecticut’s union membership dipped in 2006 and 2007 to 15.6 percent of wage and salary workers. The peak was 20.2 percent in 1995 – the year BLS began tracking union membership, the agency said.
Union ranks in neighboring Massachusetts haven’t fared much better, BLS statistics show.
In 2010, the Commonwealth State’s union membership accounted for 14.5 percent of its wage and salary workers, down from its peak of 16.6 percent a year earlier. Membership bottomed at 13.2 percent in 2007.
Despite the decline, both states’ union enrollment was well ahead of the national rate of 11.9 percent of the employed workforce, BLS said.
Connecticut’s union membership rate was the seventh highest in the nation in 2010.
Connecticut had 258,000 union members in 2010; Massachusetts had 415,000.
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