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TEXT Table 1. Table 2. Number of major collective bargaining agreements(1) and workers Calendar of major collective bargaining activity, 1995 Historical, technical data: Janice Devine (202) 606-6276 Fehmida Sleemi (202) 606-6282 Media Contact: (202) 606-5902 USDL: 94-571 FOR RELEASE: 10:00 A.M. EST Tuesday, November 29, 1994 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. Information in this release will be made available to sensory impaired individuals upon request. Voice Phone: 202-606-7828. TDD phone: 202-606-5897, TDD message referral phone: 1-800-326-2577. Table 1. Number of major collective bargaining agreements(1) and workers with scheduled 1995 expirations and reopenings, by industry [Workers in thousands] _________________________________________________________________________ | | | 1995 expirations | Total | and reopenings | _______________________________________ | | Industry | | | | | Number | | Number | | of | Workers | of | Workers | agree- | covered | agree- | covered | ments | | ments | _________________________________________________________________________ | | | | | | | | 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] _____________________________________________________________________________ | | | Agreement | | expirations and/or| | scheduled wage | Month | reopenings(1) | Principal industries ___________________ | | | | | | Number | Workers | | | covered | _____________________________________________________________________________ | | | | | | | | | 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 _____________________________________________________________________________ 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.