The following story originally appeared in the Business News Updates blog on Boston.com.
By Robert Gavin, Globe Staff
Labor unions in Massachusetts added nearly 80,000 members last year and significantly increased the share of workers they represent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Union membership grew to 458,000, or about 15.7 percent of workers in 2008, up from 379,000, or about 13.
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