BIS (the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills) has published the latest figures on Trade Union membership for 2013.
Interestingly, this fall comes in spite of a rise in memberships in the private sector, which has seen an increase of 61,000 to 2.6 million this year, particularly in the Finance and Insurance, Transport & Storage and Arts, Recreation & Entertainment sectors. However, it is the public sector trade union membership levels that have created this overall downturn, dropping by 100,000 to 3.8 million
