25 Jan 2018 Indiana’s Union Membership Falls 12.5 Percent
Unions and Union Membership | Gerald LutkusIs Indiana’s Right-to-Work Act adversely affecting union membership throughout the state? That seems to be the logical conclusion based upon statistics released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). According to the recently released BLS numbers, Indiana had 266,000 dues-paying union members in 2017, down from 304,000 union members in 2016. That’s a 12.5 percent decline in union membership. Those 266,000 union members are 8.9 percent of Indiana’s total 2017 workforce. In…