[PEN-L:2657] Re: BLS Daily Report

[knowware@xxxxxxxx (Tom Walker)]

>__The AFL-CIO, pointing to new statistics from BLS that show membership in
>unions increased by more than 100,000 in 1998, says the organizing strategy
>laid out by the federation's leadership more than three years ago is
>working.

In what is called putting a positive spin . . .

>The density of
>union membership in the workforce, however, decreased from 14.1 percent in
>1997 to 13.9 percent in 1998. ...  (Daily Labor Report, page A13).

 . . . on bad news.



Tom Walker
http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/