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Table 1.  Number of major collective bargaining agreements(1) and workers
Table 2.  Calendar of major collective bargaining activity, 1995

 
 
 
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                         BARGAINING ACTIVITY IN 1995
 
        The 1995 bargaining calendar will be heavy, with 42 percent of the
workers under major agreements (those covering 1,000 or more workers) in
private industry and state and local government having contracts scheduled
to expire or reopen during the year, the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau
of Labor Statistics reported today.  This is the largest proportion in the
11 years that BLS has compiled this information for both private industry
and state and local government, and follows a record light year, when
scheduled bargaining covered just 26 percent of the workers.  About 3.4
million workers are under agreements up for renegotiation.  (See tables 1
and 2.)
 
        Both private industry and state and local government have full
bargaining schedules in 1995.  In private industry, 35 percent of the 5.4
million workers under major agreements are slated for contract talks.
Four-fifths (1.5 million) of the 1.9 million workers under scheduled 1995
contract renegotiations are in nonmanufacturing, including 374,000 in
construction, 360,000 in communications, 212,000 in retail trade (primarily
in food stores), and 208,000 in railroads.  About 375,000 workers are under
contracts up for renegotiation in manufacturing.  About two-fifths
(157,000) are in transportation equipment manufacturing (primarily
aerospace).  The rest are in a variety of industries.
 
        In state and local government, 56 percent of the 2.8 million
workers under major agreements will be involved in bargaining, the largest
proportion since 1985, when BLS first tabulated such data.  The nearly 1.6
million workers affected by contract negotiations are split about equally
between state and local government.  Of the 788,000 state workers involved
in contract renegotiations, about 70 percent are employed by New York,
California, Florida, and New Jersey.  Just under one-half of the 772,000
local government workers slated for bargaining are in New York City,
Chicago, and Los Angeles.
 
        A more detailed account of 1995 bargaining, as well as information
on scheduled wage changes and cost-of-living provisions, is planned for the
January 1995 issue of the Monthly Labor Review.  The 1995 Bargaining
Calendar bulletin, listing all major agreements expiring in 1995, is
scheduled for publication in late December 1994.
 
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Table 1.  Number of major collective bargaining agreements(1) and workers
with scheduled 1995 expirations and reopenings, by industry
 
[Workers in thousands]
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                                 |                   |
                                 |  1995 expirations |       Total
                                 |   and reopenings  |
                                  _______________________________________
                                 |                   |
            Industry             |         |         |         |
                                 |  Number |         |  Number |
                                 |    of   | Workers |    of   | Workers
                                 |  agree- | covered |  agree- | covered
                                 |  ments  |         |  ments  |
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                                 |         |         |         |
                                 |         |         |         |
  Total..........................|    707  |  3,447  |  1,858  |  8,141
                                 |         |         |         |
    Total private................|    397  |  1,887  |  1,185  |  5,359
                                 |         |         |         |
      Manufacturing..............|    111  |    375  |    392  |  1,635
Food and kindred products........|     22  |     39  |     58  |    143
Industrial machinery and         |         |         |         |
   equipment.....................|      8  |     26  |     24  |     84
Electronic and other electric    |         |         |         |
   equipment.....................|     13  |     69  |     32  |    180
Transportation equipment.........|     19  |    157  |     67  |    670
Other manufacturing..............|     49  |     84  |    211  |    557
                                 |         |         |         |
                                 |         |         |         |
     Nonmanufacturing............|    286  |  1,513  |    793  |  3,724
Mining...........................|      1  |      1  |      8  |     81
Construction.....................|    133  |    374  |    337  |    995
Railroad transportation..........|     20  |    208  |     22  |    216
Other transportation.............|      7  |     62  |     55  |    534
Communications...................|     15  |    360  |     34  |    453
Electric, gas, and sanitary      |         |         |         |
   services......................|     27  |     69  |     72  |    203
Wholesale and retail trade.......|     37  |    218  |    136  |    675
Finance, insurance and real      |         |         |         |
   estate........................|      8  |     63  |     26  |    136
Services, except health services.|     19  |     96  |     59  |    251
Health services..................|     19  |     63  |     44  |    180
                                 |         |         |         |
                                 |         |         |         |
   State and local government....|    310  |  1,559  |    673  |  2,782
State government.................|    105  |    788  |    174  |  1,133
Local government.................|    205  |    772  |    499  |  1,650
_________________________________________________________________________
 
  1 Agreements covering 1,000 or more workers in private nonagricultural
industry and state and local government.
NOTE: Because of rounding, sums of individual items may not equal totals.
 
 
Table 2.  Calendar of major collective bargaining activity, 1995
 
[Workers in thousands]
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                           |                   |
                           |     Agreement     |
                           | expirations and/or|
                           |   scheduled wage  |
           Month           |   reopenings(1)   |     Principal industries
                            ___________________
                           |                   |
                           |         |         |
                           |  Number | Workers |
                           |         | covered |
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                           |         |         |
                           |         |         |
                           |         |         |
       Total(2)............|    707  |  3,447  |
                           |         |         |
January....................|     38  |    264  |  Railroads
February...................|     18  |    103  |  Food stores
March......................|     46  |    285  |  Local government, food
                           |         |         |   stores, airlines
April......................|     73  |    371  |  State government,
                           |         |         |   construction
May........................|     66  |    294  |  Construction, communications,
                           |         |         |   electrical products
June.......................|    244  |  1,006  |  State and local government,
                           |         |         |   construction, health
                           |         |         |    services
July.......................|     37  |    110  |  State and local government
August.....................|     50  |    388  |  Communications, local
                           |         |         |   government
September..................|     43  |    204  |  Local government, food stores
October....................|     35  |    208  |  Local government, aerospace
November...................|     12  |     25  |             (3)
December...................|     50  |    202  |  State and local government,
                           |         |         |   aerospace
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  1 Agreements covering 1,000 or more workers in private nonagricultural
industry and state and local government.
  2 Includes five agreements covering 13,000 workers that have both a wage
reopening and expiration scheduled in 1995.
  3 No single industry accounts for a substantial proportion of the workers.