Union membership on the rise in Georgia
by The Atlanta Business Chronicle
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The Peach State bucked the national trend of declining union membership in 2012, according to data released Wednesday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

In Georgia, the total number of wage and salary workers went from 3.88 million in 2011 to 3.91 million in 2012. At the same time, the number of union members grew from 153,000 (3.9 percent of all workers) to 171,000 (4.4 percent of all workers).

The national rate of union workers was 11.3 percent, down from 11.8 percent in 2011.

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