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For the first time in many years, union membership is increasing.
UNION MEMBERS IN 2007
   In 2007, the number of workers belonging to a union rose by 311,000 to 15.7 million, the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.  Union members accounted for 12.1 percent of employed wage and salary workers.  In 1983, the first year for which comparable union data are available, the union membership rate was 20.1 percent.  Some highlights from the 2007 data are:

   --Workers in the public sector had a union membership rate nearly five
     times that of private sector employees.

   --Education, training, and library occupations had the highest
      unionization rate among all occupations, at 37.2 percent,
      followed closely by protective service occupations at 35.2 percent.

   --Among demographic groups, the union membership rate was highest for
     black men and lowest for Hispanic women.

   --Wage and salary workers ages 45 to 54 (15.7 percent) and ages 55 to
     64 (16.1 percent) were more likely to be union members than were
     workers ages 16 to 24 (4.8 percent).

As reported by WWire on Friday, the 40-member Professional Staff Organization of the Oregon Education Association is at an impasse with the OEA board.

Normally, a strike by a 40-member labor group wouldn't be big news. But the OEA staff does much of the organizational work for the powerful 47,000-member statewide teachers' union, especially during the election season when the OEA is mobilizing on statewide measures and trying to organize for candidates it's supporting.

Here's the text of a release OEA staff sent out announcing the strike:

OREGON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION PROFESSIONAL STAFF ON STRIKE

Portland, September 14, 2008 – The Professional Staff Organization (PSO) of the Oregon education Association (OEA) is on strike as of 12:01 A.M., Monday, September 15. Pickets will begin Monday morning at all OEA offices throughout Oregon. All union members are expected to honor those pickets.

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