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Union membership in Colorado rose by 26,000 workers to 191,000 in 2007, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.
Union members now account for 8.7 percent of wage and salary workers in Colorado, compared with 7.7 percent in 2006. At its peak in 1990, the union membership rate in the state was 10.5 percent. Nationally, union membership in 2007 was 15.7 million, or 12.1 percent of the workforce.
