MEMBERS OF the United Food and Commercial Workers Local Union 328 hold a one-day strike outside the Greenleaf Compassionate Care Center in Portsmouth last June to protest what union members said was an unfair labor practice. Federal labor data indicates union membership among Rhode Island's workforce declined in 2021. / PBN FILE PHOTO/CASSIUS SHUMAN
Rhode Island remains one of the most unionized states in the country, but the percentage of union members among its workforce dropped from 17.8% to 15.7% in 2021, according to recently released government figures. Labor leaders say that decline was caused in part by the worker shortages experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic – particularly in…
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