6.8 Million Government Workers Represented by a Union Could be Affected by Janus Decision

• A majority (58 percent) of workers covered by a collective bargaining contract in state and local government are women.

• African Americans, Latinos, and Asian American and Pacific Islanders make up one-third of unionized state and local government workers.

• While teachers constitute the single largest subgroup, union workers in state and local government also include those serving the public as administrators, social workers, police officers, firefighters, and other professionals.

• On average, union workers in state and local government have substantially more formal education than workers in the private sector. Over 60 percent of state and local government union workers have a four-year college degree or more education, compared with one third in the private-sector workforce.

Filiberto Nolasco Gomez is a former union organizer and former editor of Minneapolis based Workday Minnesota, the first online labor news publication in the state. Filiberto focused on longform and investigative journalism. He has covered topics including prison labor, labor trafficking, and union fights in the Twin Cities.