MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) — It’s the biggest celebration of organized workers in Wisconsin, but Milwaukee’s Laborfest has fewer people joining the party. According to federal labor statistics, the rate of union membership in Wisconsin is at an all-time low.
As Monday’s parade stepped off, union leaders maintained a trend of declining membership was going to reverse.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 6.4% of Wisconsin’s wage and salary workers are in a union. Wisconsin’s union membership rate was 7.4% one year earlier…