http://kbia.org en http://kbia.org/post/union-numbers-drop-missouri-illinois The percentage of Missouri workers who are members of a union dropped to less than 9 percent in 2012, following two years of slight gains.<p>The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics released <a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/union2.pdf">its report</a> on Monday. It showed that 51,000 fewer Missouri workers were in a union in 2012 than 2011. The state was part of a larger national trend, but that 2 percent drop was among the largest.<p>The decline was to be expected given the economic downtown, said Bob Soutier, the president of the Greater St. Louis Labor Council. Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:08:20 +0000 Rachel Lippmann 27755 at http://kbia.org Union numbers drop, in Missouri, Illinois