8. The Nordic countries of Iceland, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway are five of the six MOST UNIONIZED nations in the world according to 2012 data. A whopping 82.6% of Iceland's workers are union members.
9. CHICAGO has hosted huge Labor Day parades. On September 1, 1902, more than 42,000 laborers in more than 200 unions marched in a procession that took five hours to pass the reviewing stand. Some of the unions were listed by the Chicago Tribune: gravel roofers, elevator constructors, steamfitters, boxmakers, hat finishers, soda water bottlers, chandelier makers, bakers, granite carvers, cracker packers, barbers, mosaic tile layers, longshoremen, sign painters, egg inspectors and bootblacks.
Some interesting unions.
--DaGraniteCoot
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