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- <text id=93AC0279>
- <title>
- U.S. Membership in AFL-CIO Unions:1975-93
- </title>
- <history>
- Compact ALMANAC--United States Statistics
- Labor Force & Unions
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Almanac</source>
- <hdr>
- U.S. Membership in AFL-CIO Affiliated Unions, by Selected Union: 1975 - 1993
- [In thousands.]
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <table>
- <tblhdr><cell>Labor Organization<cell type=i>1975<cell type=i>1985<cell type=i>1988<cell type=i>1989<cell type=i>1991<cell type=i>1993
- <row><cell type=a>Total(1)<cell type=i>14,070<cell type=i>13,109<cell type=i>12,692<cell type=i>14,100<cell type=i>13,933<cell type=i>13,299
- <row><cell>Actors & Artistes<cell>(NA)<cell>100<cell>95<cell>97<cell>99<cell>93
- <row><cell>Automobile, Aerospace & Agriculture (UAW)<cell>(X)<cell>974<cell>998<cell>917<cell>840<cell>771
- <row><cell>Bakery, Confectionery & Tobacco<cell>149<cell>115<cell>109<cell>103<cell>101<cell>99
- <row><cell>Boiler Makers, Iron Shipbuilders(2,3)<cell>123<cell>110<cell>90<cell>75<cell>66<cell>58
- <row><cell>Bricklayers<cell>143<cell>95<cell>84<cell>84<cell>84<cell>84
- <row><cell>Carpenters(2)<cell>712<cell>616<cell>617<cell>613<cell>494<cell>408
- <row><cell>Clothing & Textile Workers (ACTWU)(2)<cell>377<cell>228<cell>195<cell>180<cell>154<cell>143
- <row><cell>Communication Workers (CWA)<cell>476<cell>524<cell>515<cell>492<cell>492<cell>472
- <row><cell>Electrical Workers (IBEW)<cell>856<cell>791<cell>765<cell>744<cell>730<cell>710
- <row><cell>Electronic, Electrical & Salaried(2,4)<cell>255<cell>198<cell>185<cell>171<cell>160<cell>143
- <row><cell>Operating Engineers<cell>300<cell>330<cell>330<cell>330<cell>330<cell>305
- <row><cell>Firefighters<cell>123<cell>142<cell>142<cell>142<cell>151<cell>151
- <row><cell>Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW)(2)<cell>1,150<cell>989<cell>1,000<cell>999<cell>997<cell>997
- <row><cell>Garment Workers (ILGWU)<cell>363<cell>210<cell>173<cell>153<cell>143<cell>133
- <row><cell>Glass, Molders, Pottery, & Plastics(2)<cell>(NA)<cell>104<cell>97<cell>86<cell>80<cell>73
- <row><cell>Government, American Federation (AFGE)<cell>255<cell>199<cell>157<cell>156<cell>151<cell>149
- <row><cell>Graphic Communications(2)<cell>198<cell>141<cell>136<cell>124<cell>113<cell>95
- <row><cell>Hotel & Restaurant Employees<cell>421<cell>327<cell>293<cell>278<cell>269<cell>258
- <row><cell>Ironworkers<cell>160<cell>140<cell>122<cell>111<cell>101<cell>91
- <row><cell>Laborers<cell>475<cell>383<cell>371<cell>406<cell>406<cell>408
- <row><cell>Letter Carriers (NALC)<cell>151<cell>186<cell>200<cell>201<cell>210<cell>210
- <row><cell>Machinists & Aerospace (IAM)(2)<cell>780<cell>521<cell>521<cell>517<cell>688<cell>474
- <row><cell>Office & Professional Employees<cell>(NA)<cell>90<cell>86<cell>84<cell>89<cell>89
- <row><cell>Oil, Chemical, Atomic Workers (OCAW)<cell>145<cell>108<cell>96<cell>71<cell>90<cell>86
- <row><cell>Painters<cell>160<cell>133<cell>128<cell>128<cell>124<cell>106
- <row><cell>Paperworkers Int'l<cell>275<cell>232<cell>221<cell>210<cell>202<cell>188
- <row><cell>Plumbing & Pipefitting<cell>228<cell>226<cell>220<cell>220<cell>220<cell>220
- <row><cell>Postal Workers<cell>249<cell>232<cell>230<cell>213<cell>228<cell>249
- <row><cell>Retail, Wholesale Department Store(2)<cell>120<cell>106<cell>140<cell>137<cell>128<cell>80
- <row><cell>Rubber, Cork, Linoleum, Plastic<cell>173<cell>106<cell>97<cell>92<cell>89<cell>81
- <row><cell>Seafarers<cell>(NA)<cell>80<cell>80<cell>80<cell>80<cell>80
- <row><cell>Service Employees (SEIU)(2,5)<cell>490<cell>688<cell>762<cell>762<cell>881<cell>919
- <row><cell>Sheet Metal Workers<cell>(NA)<cell>108<cell>108<cell>108<cell>108<cell>108
- <row><cell>State, County, Municipal (AFSCME)<cell>647<cell>997<cell>1,032<cell>1,090<cell>1,191<cell>1,167
- <row><cell>Steelworkers<cell>1,062<cell>572<cell>494<cell>481<cell>459<cell>421
- <row><cell>Teachers (AFT)<cell>396<cell>470<cell>499<cell>544<cell>573<cell>574
- <row><cell>Teamsters(6)<cell>(X)<cell>(X)<cell>(X)<cell>1,161<cell>1,379<cell>1,316
- <row><cell>Transit Union<cell>(NA)<cell>94<cell>94<cell>94<cell>98<cell>94
- <row><cell>Transport Workers<cell>95<cell>85<cell>85<cell>85<cell>85<cell>78
- <row><cell>Transportation/Communications Int'l<cell>(NA)<cell>102<cell>113<cell>86<cell>73<cell>(NA)
- </table>
- <list style=hang>
- <item>X= Not applicable.
- <item>NA=Not available.
- <item>1. Includes other AFL-CIO affiliated unions, not shown separately.
- <item>2. Figures reflect mergers with one or more unions since 1979.
- <item>3. Includes Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers.
- <item>4. Includes Machine and Furniture Workers.
- <item>5. Excludes Hospital and Health Care Employees which merged into both unions in 1989.
- <item>6. Includes Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers.
- </list>
- <p>Source: American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), Washington, DC.
- </p>
- </body>
- </article>
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