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Mass layoffs in April 2012

May 23, 2012
Employers took 1,388 mass layoff actions in April involving 135,600 workers, seasonally adjusted, as measured by new filings for unemployment benefits during the month.
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  1. Use increase or decrease to fill in the blank:

    In 2011, there were 19 major strikes and lockouts involving 1,000 or more workers lasting at least one shift. These work stoppages idled 113,000 workers for 1.02 million lost workdays. The 2011 numbers represented a large ________ compared to 2010.
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    In 2011, the union membership rate—the percent of wage and salary workers who were members of a union—was _____ percent, essentially unchanged from 2010. In 1983, the first year for which comparable union data are available, the union membership rate was 20.1 percent.
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