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CAW 265,000 members.Almost 150,000 members have joined the union through more than 35 mergers.
For every 8 new jobs added in the private sector only about 1 is getting organized.
Unionization in the private sector has fallen from almost 30% in 1981 to 17.5% today.
When the NDP defeated the Filmon government in Manitoba it retracted the requirement for compulsory votes but in its place imposed an unusually and blatantly unfair threshold-65%-of card sign-ups.