Public sector workers had a union membership rate of ________,while private sector workers had a union membership rate of ________.

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A)The latest figures from the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that the percentage of wage and salary workers who were members of a union was 11.3 percent.The number of wage and salary workers belonging to unions is at approximately 14.5 million.In 1983,the first year for which comparable union data are available,the union membership rate was 20.1 percent and there were 17.7 million union workers.The unionization rate and the number of employees who are protected by unions is declining steadily.In 2013,7.2 million public-sector employees belonged to a union,compared with 7.3 million union workers in the private sector.Public-sector workers had a union membership rate of 35.3 percent-more than five times higher than that of the private-sector workers rate of 6.7 percent.

Public Sector Workers Had a Union Membership Rate of ________,While