[lbo-talk] SEIU membership

[Mark Rickling]

Don't know the DOL reporting requirements for membership offhand, but
membership numbers based on per capita assessments aren't as volatile.
Affiliations of already existing public sector units accounts for some
of this growth, but not most of it. That would be homecare and
childcare -- approx. 142,000 newly organized workers in the time span
below.

On 4/2/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> So could all you SEIU hands explain the course of union membership to
> me?
>
> Here's what the DOL data says:
>
>
> 2000   1,374,300
> 2001   1,376,292   0.14%
> 2002   1,464,077   6.38%
> 2003   1,602,882   9.48%
> 2004   1,702,639   6.22%
> 2005   1,505,100 -11.60%
> 2006   1,575,485   4.68%
>
> CAGR       2.30%
>
> (CAGR = compound annual growth rate)
>
> The series is, as economists say, lumpy. A 9.5% gain one year, an
> 11.6% decline two years later. The average over these six volatile
> years is 2.3%, a little over twice the growth in service sector
> employment, 1.0% (though less than the growth in health care
> employment, 2.7%). Were there mergers that account for a lot of the
> gains? Decerts for the losses? What?
>
> Doug
>
>
>
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