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UNION RESOURCE GUIDE

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What is a Union?

A group of people united in a relationship and having some interest, activity, or purpose in common: association, club, confederation, congress, federation, fellowship, fraternity, guild, league, order, organization, society, and sorority. The term union can be interchangeable with association or federation. A trade union or labor union is an organization run by and for workers who have banded together to achieve common goals in key areas and working conditions.

Union Facts & Figures:

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, union members accounted for 12.4 percent of employed wage and salary workers in 2008, up from 12.1 percent a year earlier. The number of workers belonging to a union totaled 16.1 million. Some highlights from the 2008 data are:

Government workers were nearly five times more likely to belong to a union than were private sector employees.

• Within the public sector, local government workers had the highest union membership rate. This group includes teachers, police officers, and fire fighters. Private sector industries with high unionization rates include transportation and utilities, telecommunications, and construction. Workers in education, training, and library occupations had the highest unionization rate. Unionization rates were relatively low in financial activities and professional and business services.

Among states, New York had the highest union membership rate and North Carolina had the lowest rate.

• Six states had union membership rates below 5.0 percent in 2008, with North Carolina having the lowest rate (3.5 percent). The next lowest rates were recorded in Georgia (3.7 percent), South Carolina (3.9 percent), Virginia (4.1 percent), Texas (4.5 percent), and Louisiana (4.6 percent). Three states had union membership rates over 20.0 percent in 2008--New York (24.9 percent), Hawaii (24.3 percent), and Alaska (23.5 percent). The largest numbers of union members lived in California (2.7 million) and New York (2.0 million). About half (8.0 million) of the 16.1 million union members in the U.S. lived in just 6 states: California, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Ohio.

Demographic Characteristics of U.S. Union Members

• The union membership rate was higher for men than for women in 2008. In 2008, black workers were more likely to be union members than workers who were white, Asian, or Hispanic. By age, union membership rates were highest among workers 55 to 64 years old, followed by 45 to 54 years old. The lowest union membership rates occurred among those ages 16 to 24. Full-time workers were about twice as likely as part-time workers to be union members.

Types of Unions:

Unions and association span all sectors of the workforce: healthcare, labor, education, trade and individual workers, professionals, past workers, or the unemployed. Members of a union may range from machinists in auto-repair shops to in home care providers who belong to a service-workers union. Chances are you might be a member of a union or association in your jurisdiction.

• Unions in the United States. List of employment by state with union affiliated workers.

• Unions in Canada.

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Unions in North America

Please note this is a sampling of unions and associations—not an exhaustive list.

American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE)

The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) is the largest federal employee union representing 600,000 federal and D.C. government workers nationwide and overseas.

American Federation of Labor Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)

The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is a voluntary federation of 56 national and international labor unions (see list here). The AFL-CIO union movement represents 11 million members, including 2.5 million members in Working America, its new community affiliate. ALF-CIO members include teachers and truck drivers, musicians and miners, firefighters and farm workers, bakers and bottlers, engineers and editors, pilots and public employees, doctors and nurses, painters and laborers—and more. The AFL-CIO was created in 1955 by the merger of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations.

American Federation of State County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME)

AFSCME’s 1.6 million members provide the vital services that make America happen and advocate for prosperity and opportunity for all working families. AFSCME members include nurses, corrections officers, child care providers, EMTs and sanitation workers.

American Federation of Teachers (AFT)

The AFT has more than one million members nationwide, and has grown into a trade union representing workers in education, health care, and public service.

American Postal Workers Union (APWU)

The APWU is the world's largest postal union, representing more than 330,000 USPS employees and retirees, and nearly 2,000 private-sector mail workers. APWU members belong to approximately 1,600 state and local unions and retiree chapters in every state and territory.

Change To Win Federation (CTW) Seven unions and six million workers united in Change to Win in 2005. This Federation includes 7 unions: International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA), Service Employees International Union (SEIU), United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America (UBC) United Farm Workers of America (UFW), and the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW).

International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF)

The International Association of Fire Fighters represents more than 292,000 full-time professional fire fighters and paramedics who protect 85 percent of the nation’s population. More than 3,100 affiliates and their members protect communities in every state in the United States and in Canada. In addition to city and county fire fighters and emergency medical personnel, IAFF members include state employees, federal workers and fire and emergency medical personnel employed at certain industrial facilities.

International Longshore and Warehouse Union

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union has approximately 42,000 members in over 60 local unions in the states of California, Washington, Oregon, Alaska and Hawaii. An additional 3,500 members belong to the Inlandboatmen's Union of the Pacific, which constitutes the Union's Marine Division. Another 14,000 members belong to the autonomous ILWU Canada.

International Union of Police Associations (IUPA)

Since the IUPA’s beginning, the organization has become one of the most influential voices for law enforcement in the political arena. In 1966, the N.C.P.A. amended its by-laws to allow a number of local Canadian police associations to affiliate and N.C.P.A. became known as the International Conference of Police Associations.

National Education Association (NEA)

With 3.2 million members, NEA is the nation’s largest labor union and represents teachers, secretaries and educational support personnel.

Service Employees International Union (SEIU)

With 2 million members in Canada, the United States and Puerto Rico, SEIU is the fastest-growing union in the Americas and includes healthcare, public services and property services workers.

Transport Workers Union (TWU)

The Transport Workers Union of America was founded in 1934 as an industrial union dedicated to the promise that an organization built on trust and equality for all workers cannot be denied. TWU is affiliated with the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) and the worldwide International Transport Workers Federation (ITF). We are a trade union representing workers in Mass Transportation, Airline, Railroad, Utility, University, Municipalities, Service and allied industries.

United American Nurses (UAN)

UAN is the union for nurses, by nurses, with staff nurses establishing its agenda and steering its course.

United Auto Workers (UAW)

The International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW) is one of the largest and most diverse unions in North America, with members in virtually every sector of the economy. UAW-represented workplaces range from multinational corporations, small manufacturers and state and local governments to colleges and universities, hospitals and private non-profit organizations. The UAW has about 513,000 active members and more than 575,000 retired members in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. There are more than 800 local unions in the UAW. The UAW currently has 3,100 contracts with some 2,000 employers in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico.

United Mine Workers of America (UMWA)

The United Mine Workers of America membership that includes coal miners, clean coal technicians, health care workers, truck drivers, manufacturing workers and public employees throughout the United States and Canada.

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