WASHINGTON â U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez issued the following statement on the departmentâs Bureau of Labor Statistics report released today on union membership in 2015: âWith todayâs Bureau of Labor Statisticsâ report, we are reminded again that the labor movement continues to be one of the most powerful forces for strengthening the…
Web News Article #: 014-22016 02/02/2016 – Union members are bringing home a lot more baconâon average $204 more per week than their non-union counterparts. According to new statistics from the Department of Labor, workers who belong to a union earned an average of $980 per week in 2015, compared to just $776 for non-union…
January 2, 2016 Here we go again: Yet another government study has spurred news stories about how the U.S. Postal Service is on the verge of massive downsizing. âThe next decade isn’t expected to be kind to postal worker employment,â stated U.S. News & World Report recently, based on a new Bureau of Labor Statistics…
By Andrew Soergel – December 17, 2015 Future employment prospects look bleak for government employees, manufacturers and postal carriers, according to a report issued Thursday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The bureau’s biennial Occupational Outlook Handbook, which was released Thursday and offers a glimpse into how the government expects America’s ever-changing labor market to…
By Erica L. Groshen – BLS Commissioner December 11, 2015 Every so often as I walk down the halls of the BLS headquarters building in Washington, D.C., I notice a few drips of coffee or water on our otherwise shiny floors. My first reaction is to stoop down and wipe up the spill, or to…
The United States shed 8.7 million jobs from the official onset of the Great Recession in December 2007 until the economy began regaining jobs in March 2010. Although the economy has since regained all jobs lost, some occupations are shrinking…. At the top of the list, the number of postal service clerks is expected to…
(September 22, 2014) On Nov. 23, 2013, 26-year-old Tyson Barnette was shot multiple times while delivering the mail in Landover, Maryland. On Feb. 26, 2013, federal corrections officer Eric Williams was stabbed with a homemade weapon at the high-security Canaan penitentiary in Pennsylvania. In 2013 57 federal employees were killed on the job, according to…
Today, more than 30 million of Americaâs working families have young children, and more than 25 million workers provide unpaid care for elderly relatives and loved ones every year. The needs that they tend to arenât always the kind that can be addressed in a day here or there. While caregiving roles in the U.S….
