6310.0 - Employee Earnings, Benefits and Trade Union Membership, Australia, Aug 2000

ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 02/04/2001

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About this Release Clarification of Trade Union membership figures (Media Release) Employee Earnings on the Increase (Media Release)	Attention News Editors, Chiefs of Staff Clarification of Trade Union membership figures The Australian Bureau of Statistics today (11.30am) issued media release no. 30/2001, headed EMPLOYEE EARNINGS ON THE INCREASE. The release was associated with the publication Employee Earnings, Benefits and Trade Union Membership, Australia (cat. no. 6310.0). In para 5, please read first sentence as....The proportion of employees who are trade union members continued to decrease. ..This substitutes for ...The number of trade union members continues to decrease.. . This clarification makes it clear that the proportion of employees who are trade union members continued to decrease and not (rpt not) that the number of trade union members continued to decrease. Please bring this to the attention of relevant reporting staff. ABS regrets any inconvenience this may have caused. Released by: Steve Dangaard Director, Media and Public Affairs Unit Tel: 02 6252 7197 Document Selection These documents will be presented in a new window.