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Union membership stats - interesting
•Since the recession began in 2007 the Imperial Federal Government of the United States has been adding employees at the rate of 9,000 per month, and the federal payroll has gone up by 10.5 percent.
•Federal workers now earn an average of $71,200 per year. Private sector workers earn about $40,331 per year.
•Fifty-two percent of all union members in this country work for the government.
•In 1960 31.9% of private sector workers and 10.8% of government workers were members of unions. In 2010 the numbers are reversed. 36.6% of government workers are union members while only 6.9% of private workers are. The survival of the union movement is completely dependent on government workers.
•There are three times more union workers in the postal service than there are in the automobile industry.
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