Membership in unions in New York state increased in 2013 to account for 24.4 percent of all wage and salary workers in the state, up from 23.2 percent in 2012, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported today.
New York had 1,986,000 union members last year, up from 1,841,000 in 2012.
BLS Chief Regional Economist Martin Kohli noted in a news release that the Empire State’s union membership rate in 2013 reached its highest level recorded since 2009. He did not provide a reason for the increase.
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New York has the highest rate of union membership in the U.S., for the 17th time in the last 19 years, according to the BLS. The state’s 24.4 percent rate far exceeds the 11.3 percent rate of union membership for the U.S. as a whole. Alaska, at 23.1 percent, and Hawaii, at 22.1 percent, ranked second and third in union membership last year, respectively.
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