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Labor Secretary Hilda Solis mentioned Wednesday that as union membership declines in the US, so does the quantity of men and women capable to remain in the center class.Washington
A ongoing decline in union membership in the US has led to an erosion of the American middle class, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis said Wednesday.
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As the part of the population that belongs to a union has declined, “there has been an erosion of folks that have been ready to keep in the middle class. The way I see, it is that unions have assisted to retain men and women in the middle class," Secretary Solis stated. She spoke at a Monitor-hosted breakfast for reporters.
Earlier this yr the Labor Department documented that union membership ongoing to slide previous calendar year. In 2010, the percentage of wage and salary workers who ended up members of a union was eleven.9 percent, down from twelve.three percent a calendar year before.

The number of workers belonging to a union declined by 612,000 to 14.7 million. For reasons of comparison, in 1983, the initial calendar year for which equivalent info is accessible, the union membership rate was twenty.one % and there were 17.seven million union workers.
The Labor Secretary spoke of her very own expertise with the union movement’s ability to offer personnel a middle class lifestyle. “I am a item of that coming from a family members, a doing work class household that was able to have people benefits, the wellness treatment ... [I] see my mothers and fathers now residing on retirement and know how essential it is to degree the enjoying subject," she said.
The Secretary’s mom, a native of Nicaragua, worked on an assembly line and her dad, a Mexican immigrant, was a Teamsters’ Union store steward.
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