Union Contacts and Data Fully Updated and Expanded in BNA Books' 'Directory of U.S. Labor Organizations, 2010 Edition'

ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- BNA Books, a division of specialized news and information publisher BNA, announced today the publication of the widely used 2010 Edition of the Directory of U.S. Labor Organizations. The Directory is a key source of information on private- and public-sector unions, union leaders, and key data for reference and research.

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The Directory of U.S. Labor Organizations, 2010 Edition, published annually, is gleaned from extensive research and information the unions themselves have reported to the U.S. government. The 2010 Edition is an ideal tool for quickly finding personnel contacts, union locations, and other vital details on labor organizations in the United States. Extensively updated, the 2010 Edition, as with previous editions, provides the most recent government data on U.S. union membership, information on approximately 30,000 union organizations, including mailing addresses and websites for headquarters offices, and a basic overview of organized labor's structure, composition and leadership. The Directory includes:

• Membership and earnings figures compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Recent and pending union mergers and alliances
• An analysis of union representation elections supervised by the National Labor Relations Board
• A summary of union mergers between 1995 and 2009
• Names and addresses of AFL-CIO headquarters and state-elected officials and staff members, plus information on the history, structure, and functions of the Federation and its Executive Council
• A listing of officers of Change to Win — the first major federation of unions to be formed since the founding of the AFL-CIO in 1955
• National union profiles — with proper names, addresses, telephone and fax numbers, web sites, and e-mail addresses; membership figures; publications; and more included where available
• Names of elected officers and key staff
• Active local labor organizations, by state — with cities and local union numbers
• Charts showing union membership by state, union rankings by size, and union members rights/officer responsibilities
• Tables of union acronyms and common names
• Four indexes listing unions, acronyms, officers and staff, and web sites
• A list of Labor Department field offices
• A summary of union reporting requirements and member rights guaranteed by law
• New tables showing the median weekly earnings of union members and non-union members from 2000 to 2009, and the percent of union representation elections won by unions by industry sector in 2008 and 2009

The appendices for the Directory of U.S. Labor Organizations, 2010 Edition have been completely updated, and include BLS tables on union membership and earnings, an AFL-CIO report on membership in unions that belonged to the federation in 2009, and a chart listing union financial reporting requirements under the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act and the Civil Service Reform Act.

The editor of the Directory is Court Gifford, a former editor of BNA's Daily Law Report.

BNA is a leading private publisher of news and information products for professionals in law and business.  In addition to the Directory of U.S. Labor Organizations, BNA's Book Division publishes BNA's Directory of State and Federal Courts, Judges, and Clerks; Contract Bargaining Handbook for Local Union Leaders; The Developing Labor Law: The Board, the Courts, and the National Labor Relations Act; Elkouri and Elkouri: How Arbitration Works; How ADR Works; How to Take a Case Before the NLRB; Labor Union Law and Regulation; Negotiating a Labor Contract: A Management Handbook; NLRA Rights in the Nonunion Workplace; The Railway Labor Act; Winning at the NLRB; and other titles in legal specialties. For a free BNA Books catalog, call 1-800-960-1220 or send an e-mail request to [email protected].

Directory of U.S. Labor Organizations, 2010 Edition (260 pp. Softcover/ISBN 978-1-57018-917-3/Order #1917-PR10/$160.00 plus tax, shipping and handling) may be purchased from BNA Books, PO Box 7814, Edison, NJ 08818-7814.  Telephone orders: 1-800-960-1220. Fax orders: 1-732-346-1624. A 10 percent discount is available when ordering from the BNA Books website (discounts cannot be combined).

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