Mark Robison

mrobison@rgj.com

Nevada ranks 11th highest in the nation for the rate of union workers, according to new federal data.

About 177,000 workers in Nevada are represented by unions, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Friday, using data from the U.S. Census.

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This works out to 14.3 percent of wage and salary workers in Nevada, compared with 11.1 percent nationwide. Nevada’s rate has stayed relatively steady for the past five years. (See charts at bottom.)

New York had the highest percentage of union workers at 24.7 percent, followed by Hawaii (20.4 percent) and Alaska (19.6 percent).

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The states with the lowest percentage of workers who are union members were South Carolina (2.1 percent) followed by North Carolina (3 percent) and Utah (3.9 percent).

Nevada had an additional 26,000 workers represented by a union or a union contract while not being in a union themselves. This ranks Nevada at 8th highest in the nation for union representation of workers.

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