48.9% of Unions members work for the Government

[Belsnickel]

(01-29-2016, 10:37 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: Looking the data, it appears that membership increases as you go from federal to state to local. That makes sense. Local level is your teachers, cops, firefighters, etc. The people who do a lot for their communities but are usually not very well compensated.

In Virginia, local public employees are better compensated than employees of the Commonwealth in most cases.