Union Membership by State (2004)

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Make of that what you will.

Note that New York (at about 24% of the workforce, something like 12pts above the U.S average) would be below average in the U.K (where the highest is Northern Ireland with about 40%. Highest in England is the North East with about 35%) a country with a reasonably similer workforce structure in other respects.

[Akno21]

Why is Alaska relatively high?

With a few exceptions, it looks like the 2004 map.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Why is Alaska relatively high?

I'd assume that it's either the oil workers or there's a hellofalot of public sector workers in Alaska

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Only if you want it to look like the 2004 map

[KEmperor]

Why is Alaska relatively high?

I'd assume that it's either the oil workers or there's a hellofalot of public sector workers in Alaska

That would be my assumption as well.

With a few exceptions, it looks like the 2004 map.

Not really.

[minionofmidas]

I'd have thought Iowa would be higher.

[KEmperor]

I'd have thought Iowa would be higher.

Farmers dont unionize.  It's why most of the plains states are so low.

[minionofmidas]

Bama is also surprising.

[KEmperor]

Bama is also surprising.

How so?

[minionofmidas]

I didn't expect it to be highish. It's higher than anywhere else in the South but W.Va. and Kentucky.

[Dave from Michigan]

Here  in Michigan it's high 22% I think, Michigan is very pro union.

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But I thought that New Yorkers were supposed to all be "latte liberals".

[Bono]

But I thought that New Yorkers were supposed to all be "latte liberals".

Do you know who did the unionized workers voted for?

[patrick1]

I didn't expect it to be highish. It's higher than anywhere else in the South but W.Va. and Kentucky.

Alabama's numbers are probably higher because of the steel industry in Birmingham and also Alabama has many foreign car makers who have set up shop.

[minionofmidas]

Alabama has many foreign car makers who have set up shop.

So does South Carolina.

[patrick1]

Alabama has many foreign car makers who have set up shop.

So does South Carolina.

True but do they have a steel industry;)

[AuH2O]

Unions are in decline everywhere in the US. In the South, foreign manufacturers have tried to avoid the unionization of their employees with good success. Actually that's a major reason they located in SC, AL, MS, TN etc. to begin with.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Bama is also surprising.

Not really; unions are quite strong in the old coalfields in Northern Alabama.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Alabama has many foreign car makers who have set up shop.

So does South Carolina.

Although the numbers in both Carolina's are freakishly low for historical reasons (the failure of the big textiles strike in the '30's).

[Alcon]

I have to say that the colouring scheme is driving me to insanity...there's so little difference between the colours.  Is there a map with a more contrasting scheme?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I have to say that the colouring scheme is driving me to insanity...there's so little difference between the colours.  Is there a map with a more contrasting scheme?

I could make another one, but I'm too tired at the moment. I didn't go for too great a contrast between the colours because it's only 2pts between each new colour (although I can seem 'em all fine).

[Dave from Michigan]

22% here in michigan i not suprised I would have though it was a little higher personally, mostly do to the auto industry.

[KEmperor]

In other union news, the Teamsters have left the AFL-CIO along with the Service Employees International Union.  Looks like a civil war brewing in organized labor.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Have they actually left? Last I heard they were just boycotting the convention.
Not suprising at all though.

[KEmperor]

Have they actually left? Last I heard they were just boycotting the convention.
Not suprising at all though.

Indeed:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,163484,00.html

[WalterMitty]

union membership in north carolina is 2.7%, which is still far too high.