Union membership in Nevada down in 2011
The percentage of Nevada workers who belong to a union has dropped slightly to 14.6 percent, continuing a downward trend that started when the recession set in.
Bureau of Labor Statistics officials said Friday that 154,000 workers in Nevada were union members in 2011, and another 21,000 were represented by a union even though they weren't technically members.
Nevada's union rate dropped from 15 percent in 2010, but is still higher than the national 2011 union rate of 11.8 percent.
Union membership in Nevada peaked in 1996, when 20.4 percent of workers were members.
