UNION LABEL: It may be Labor Day,...
UNION LABEL: It may be Labor Day, but Orange County isn’t very fond of unions: Only one in seven workers (14%) belongs to one. . . . That’s not as low as some Southern cities though, such as Atlanta (11%), and Jackson, Miss. (8%), according to Newport Beach’s BTA Economic Research Institute. But it’s way below places like New York (33%) and Chicago (23%). . . . And Allen J. Scott, a UCLA geographer who’s studied Orange County, says the figure is not likely to grow here: “The prospects for unionizing a largely immigrant work force in manufacturing aren’t very good.”
Union Workers
Percentage of employees who are union members varies widely in Southern California (Percent of Union Workers by County). Los Angeles: 21.1 San Bernardino: 18.2 Riverside: 16.4 Orange: 13.9 San Diego: 13.3 Source: BTA Economic Research Institute
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