total membership is 12.0%
women is 10.9%
men is 13.0%
represented is 13.1%
women is 12.2%
men is 14.0%
public sector union density is 36.5%
the local public sector is the greatest at 41.9%
the federal is lowest at 27.8%
private sector union density is7.8%
utilities industry is the greatest at 27.4%
food services and drinking places is the lowest at 1.3%, which even beats the 1.4% represented in the finance industry.
“If you look back, slavery created a caste of workers of color who were denied citizenship rights, whose human rights were abused and whose work put them beneath the floor established for free labor,” argues Maria Ontiveros, professor of law at the University of San Francisco. “To a great extent, that’s where the undocumented population is today.” Beyond the Labor Board
“I’d been working at Smithfield for three years when I fell from a ladder. They gave me medication for pain, and told me I had flat feet and that is why I had pain. I went to a private doctor who said I had a very serious problem with the bone, but the company said they’d fire me if I saw him again. They also said they’d fire me if I didn’t keep working every day. I am always in pain, but I have to support three children. Their father died and I have been working 11 years for them. I asked the trade union lawyer to fight this case, because what they are doing is not fair. At the clinic they said I was a troublemaker and they laughed at me. They said, “Fight all you want, you’ll never win!” Justice at Smithfield
9 JANUARY 2008 | GENEVA/BAGHDAD — A large national household survey conducted by the Iraqi government and WHO estimates that 151 000 Iraqis died from violence between March 2003 and June 2006.
