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Old 10-25-2011, 06:08 AM   #41
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Originally Posted by TheProfessor View Post
Only 11.9 % of the US workforce is a member of a union.
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics.

None of the Lowe's in question had union employees.
The most heavily unionized sector of the the US workforce is the public "government" sector.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/23/business/23labor.html

This is one of the reasons why the federal, state and local governments are so far in debt, estimated at 4 trillion dollars (just for the states) of unfunded pay and pension liabilities.
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