Migration Information Source Releases Data in Advance of Labor Day
WASHINGTON -- The number of immigrant wage and salary workers who were union members grew by 30 percent from 1996 to 2006, as the number of immigrant workers in the U.S. wage and salary workforce increased by 66 percent. Meanwhile, the number of native-born wage and salary workers in unions decreased by about 9 percent.
The Migration Information Source released data today showing that, in 2006, immigrants made up 15 percent of the U.S. workforce and 12 percent of union members. Despite overall declines in the proportion of both native- and foreign-born wage and salary workers who belong to unions in the last decade, as immigrants’ share of workers in the United States has increased, so has their union membership.
Some key findings, based on Census survey data, are:
The Migration Information Source Spotlight is available online.