>__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/
