January 20, 2000 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Protective service occupations have highest union membership rate
Among occupational groups, protective service
had the highest union membership rate in 1999, at 38.2 percent.
[Chart data—TXT]
The unionization rate for protective service occupations—which
include police officers, prison guards, and firefighters—was well above the average of
13.9 percent for all occupations. Other occupational groups with
higher-than-average unionization rates were precision production, craft,
and repair workers (22.4 percent); operators, fabricators, and laborers
(20.7 percent); and professional specialty (19.7 percent).
At 4.1 percent, the lowest union membership rate was in sales
occupations. The unionization rates were also under 10 percent in
executive, administrative, and managerial jobs and in service occupations
other than protective service.
These 1999 data on union membership are from the Current
Population Survey. Unionization
data are for wage and salary workers. Find out more in "Union
Members in 1999," news release
USDL 00-16.
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