Union membership continues to shrink in Illinois.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics says 14.6 percent of wage and salaried workers in the state belonged to a union in 2012… down from 16.2 percent a year earlier.
Union membership has been on the decline since peaking at 21-percent in 1993. But the numbers here remain substantially higher than the national figures, with just over 10-percent of workers belonging to a union.