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March 28, 2024

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Martin Luther King, Jr., leads a march of striking sanitation workers, members of AFSCME Local 1733, in Memphis, Tenn. Violence during the march persuades him to return the following week to Memphis, where he was assassinated. ~ Labor Tribune

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The Share of The Workforce Represented by Unions Increased Last Year
Updated On: Jan 28, 2021
Jan. 28, 2021 | UNIONS| The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reports the rate of union membership was up in 2020, bucking the downward trend in previous years. After decades of declining unionization, in the middle of a pandemic, “the share of the workforce that’s represented by a union jumped up, from 11.6 percent to 12.1 percent,” said Heidi Shierholz, senior economist and director of policy at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). Shierholz said more than 20 million workers lost their jobs last year, union and non-union alike. But she said union workers “lost fewer jobs than their nonunion counterparts. And so the unionization rate actually rose.” … Marketplace
 
 
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