employers added to the impact; all told, 1.9 million union jobs disappeared.
More worrisome to organized labor is the fact that membership fell even in growing sectors of the economy. The payrolls of service indus- tries (e.g., health care, communications, and transportation) swelled nearly five million during the five-year period, but unions lost some 700,000 members. Up to half the losses were the result of federal dereg- ulation of the trucking and airline businesses, which spurred harsher competition...