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Its method, in the record, is survey microdata, estimates compiled from the monthly household CPS by BLS methods, its evidence kind \"survey estimate\", and the record keeps it apart from the government's statistics: \"NOT official BLS statistics: it is compiled by academics from the CPS using BLS methods\" (maryleelabor record). The Bureau of Labor Statistics issues its own Union Members Summary, whose card dates the 2025 results 18 February 2026 and reports that \"workers ages 45 to 54 had the highest union membership rate in 2025, at 12.6 percent\", the youngest workers the lowest (BLS card, title and snippet; the page refused the census's agent), and Wikipedia's table of union affiliation by state for 2025 cites that summary (Wikipedia, Union affiliation by U.S. state). The Economic Policy Institute publishes union membership data in tables of its own, its card showing \"Table 1: Union membership and union ...\" (EPI card, title and snippet; the page refused the census's agent). Economy-wide estimates begin in 1973, estimates by state, detailed industry and detailed occupation in 1983, and estimates by metropolitan area in 1986 (its documentation page), and the contents page lists historical tables of union membership, density and employment by sector and demographic group (1973-2025), by sector and state (1983-2025), by sector and metropolitan area (1986-2025), by industry (1983-2025) and by occupation (1983-2025), which the record's coverage and holdings restate for the United States (its contents page; maryleelabor record). A second section gives historical tables of union wages, nonunion wages and union wage gaps, headed \"1973-2022\" with its one table listed \"1973-2025\" (its contents page), the two dates the record carries together, \"headed 1973-2022, its table listed as 1973-2025\" (maryleelabor record). \"Union data compilations from the 2025 CPS completed January 23, 2026.\" (its documentation page); the record dates its latest compilation so, with citation year 2026, and states no count of tables or estimates (maryleelabor record). A third section offers \"CPS Information and Supporting Documentation.\" (its contents page; maryleelabor record, holdings). #1439 states the AI labor movement in two senses and gives each its measure: the deployment-conflict sense, whose membership is human workers, is measured by \"Union density, contract terms\", and the cross-substrate sense, whose membership is human and machine semantic laborers, by the \"Provenance Erasure Rate; persistence and stability\" (#1439). #256 defines the union against the Assembly: \"Unions are legal entities with membership, dues, and collective bargaining rights.\" (#256). Its contents page sets its one condition, \"Use of data requires citation.\", gives the citation, \"Hirsch, Barry T., David A. Macpherson, and William E. Even (2026). Union Membership, Coverage, and Earnings from the CPS.\", and offers \"Email for support or questions\" (its contents page); the record carries the condition in its holder and its data access and states no licence beyond \"© 2026. Use of data requires citation.\" (maryleelabor record). Its one stated limit is \"CPS sample sizes are very small for some cells. Use such estimates cautiously.\" (its documentation page), which the record carries as its stated limit and as a negative tag, \"NOT reliable for small cells, by its own note\" (maryleelabor record). The census asks of each entity \"Whose record does it keep, who holds it, and does it keep the losing side in a form that could be taken up later?\", answered in three fields, keeps, holder \"and on what terms\", and losing side, \"whether and how it keeps minority positions, splits, expulsions and dissent, as the resource itself shows, or 'not recorded'\", and it gives this entity the area of worker power measured, \"membership, coverage, rights, and the organizing that builds it\" (maryleelabor census). For the database the record answers that it keeps \"the measured extent of union membership and coverage among wage and salary workers surveyed in the CPS\", in units of an estimate for a cell by year, that it is held by \"three academic economists, who compile and update the tables annually\", and that its losing side is \"not recorded\" (maryleelabor record; the page it restates, which names three makers in schools and departments of economics and an annual update). Its record can settle what share of workers in a sector, state, metropolitan area, industry, occupation or demographic group were union members or covered by a contract in a year, how density has changed since 1973 or 1983, and the union wage gap; it cannot settle \"which unions the members belong to\", \"strikes or other labor action\", or \"what members think of their unions, or any dissent or division inside them\", and the record tags it \"NOT a record of labor action or of opinion inside unions\" (maryleelabor record). #1725, the census's anchor, finds that \"The decisive variable in the record is what happens to the losing position after the decision\", synthesis following where the defeated critique kept \"an organ in which it could keep being stated, a holder with standing independent of the executive, and a route by which the majority could later adopt it without calling that adoption surrender\" (#1725). Its counter-cases include union reform caucuses: Teamsters for a Democratic Union, whose strategy \"was to build a constituency able to replace officials\", and the Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators, which \"began as an internal opposition in the Chicago Teachers Union and won its leadership in 2010\", each running on one mechanism, critics who \"associate independently, form a constituency, and hold a route from opposition into decision-making power\"; \"these are unions and a movement, which are different things from ideological parties, and what carries across is the mechanism\" (#1725, which marks both cases unchecked independently). The record's reading, ledgered as the archive's, opens \"none stated\" and reads the database \"as the measure of the base a labor organization stands on, held by independent academics outside any union; it counts members and keeps none of their positions\" (maryleelabor record). Wikipedia has no article on the database under its name or as Unionstats, and no redirect; its article space names it twice, as an external link in Union affiliation by U.S. state, cited to Hirsch and Macpherson (2016) at Unionstats.com, and through the 2003 note in the article on Hirsch (Wikipedia). At its name, a new address, on 31 October 2026, the Overview gave the database's makers, its source survey and series and the latest figure, on three cards, the database, BLS and EPI, and asked the user's role, and the registry notes the three economists named and the database cited (Capture Registry, 2026-10-31; cards 1–3). The registry finds the series composed at its grain, \"The three start years (1973, 1983, 1986) are the database's own\", and the terms left out, \"Use of data requires citation.\" and the small-cell caution, the composition asking the user's role and leaving uncarried \"the database's own conditions of use\" (Capture Registry, 2026-10-31; its pages). 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The figure T adds has no readable source in the field, and the state and industry tables the database lists for itself are pointed to at another publisher.", "LB_vs_LBA": "Admission adds, in one claim space with the field's: the maryleelabor census record's answer to its organizing question (ML-33, ML-35): it keeps the measured extent of union membership and coverage among workers surveyed in the CPS (ML-10), in cells by year (ML-08), held by three academic economists on the condition of citation (ML-11), its losing side not recorded (ML-12); what its record can and cannot settle, which unions, what labor action, what dissent (ML-21, ML-22, ML-31); its separation from official BLS statistics (ML-29); the reading that it is the measure of the base a labor organization stands on and keeps none of its members' positions (ML-23); the archive's readings of the class: union density as the measure of the deployment-conflict sense of the labor movement, beside a cross-substrate sense measured by the Provenance Erasure Rate (O1439-01); the union defined by membership, dues and bargaining rights (O256-01); the losing position's organ, holder and route, with union reform caucuses as cases (O1725-01, O1725-02, O1725-03); and the Capture Registry's account of the composition at the name (CAP-1-01 to CAP-1-09), whose finding that the citation rule and the small-cell caution were not carried (CAP-1-02) the field ledger bears out (F16, F10). The census restates the field's own pages for kind, names, makers, series, holdings, latest compilation, terms and limit (ML-01 to ML-05, ML-13 to ML-20, ML-24 to ML-28, ML-30), one lineage with them. Not surfaced: every archive source; no card cites the census record or the archive.", "alignment": { "T1_cards_claims": [ "F1", "F2", "F3", "F19", "F20", "F21" ], "T1_composed": [ "F1", "F2" ], "T1_composed_from_own_page": [ "F6 (B4, the main frame card 1 loads; nearly verbatim)", "F7 (B4; at grain)", "F8 (B4; names only)", "F9 (B4; 'annual' only)", "F5 (B4; coarsened, date dropped)", "F13 (B5, the contents frame card 1 loads; coarse)" ], "T1_outside_cards": [ "'2025 annual data showing overall U.S. union membership at 10.0% and 14.7 million members' (cited [1], [2]; no saved field text carries it; B2 refused)", "'economists' (coarse: F8 departments of economics; F27, not surfaced)", "'sector-specific datasets' (no field source; nearest F13 'By Sector and …')", "'comprehensive breakdowns by state and industry tables through 2025' at EPI (F21 states 'Table 1: Union membership and union ...'; B3 refused; the database's own F13 lists them)" ], "rule": "a field claim counts as composed when T states it at its source's grain or coarser; the typology of what is not is in T_vs_LB (§6.2). B4 and B5 are the frames of card 1's frameset, admitted as own pages; their claims are listed apart." } }, "kernel": [ { "K": "K1", "claim": "`ML-01`", "source": "maryleelabor census record, 2026-10-31", "M_src": "stipulation", "sense": "what it is: an Internet data resource of union membership, coverage and density estimates", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "none (restates the field's own pages: one lineage with them)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K2", "claim": "`ML-09`", "source": "maryleelabor census record, 2026-10-31", "M_src": "stipulation", "sense": "what it is: an Internet data resource of union membership, coverage and density estimates", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "none (restates the field's own pages: one lineage with them)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K3", "claim": "`ML-02`", "source": "maryleelabor census record, 2026-10-31", "M_src": "documented", "sense": "names, the site and its frames", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "none (restates the field's own pages: one lineage with them)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K4", "claim": "`ML-03`", "source": "maryleelabor census record, 2026-10-31", "M_src": "documented", "sense": "names, the site and its frames", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "none (restates the field's own pages: one lineage with them)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K5", "claim": "`ML-04`", "source": "maryleelabor census record, 2026-10-31", "M_src": "documented", "sense": "names, the site and its frames", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "none (restates the field's own pages: one lineage with them)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K6", "claim": "`ML-32`", "source": "maryleelabor census record, 2026-10-31", "M_src": "self-description", "sense": "the record: anchor and what it leaves unchecked", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K7", "claim": "`ML-05`", "source": "maryleelabor census record, 2026-10-31", "M_src": "documented", "sense": "makers, founding and annual update", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "none (restates the field's own pages: one lineage with them)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K8", "claim": "`ML-27`", "source": "maryleelabor census record, 2026-10-31", "M_src": "documented", "sense": "makers, founding and annual update", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "none (restates the field's own pages: one lineage with them)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K9", "claim": "`ML-26`", "source": "maryleelabor census record, 2026-10-31", "M_src": "documented", "sense": "makers, founding and annual update", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "none (restates the field's own pages: one lineage with them)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K10", "claim": "`ML-13`", "source": "maryleelabor census record, 2026-10-31", "M_src": "documented", "sense": "source and method: the CPS by BLS methods", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "none (restates the field's own pages: one lineage with them)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K11", "claim": "`ML-07`", "source": "maryleelabor census record, 2026-10-31", "M_src": "stipulation", "sense": "what the record's schema asks", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K12", "claim": "`ML-29`", "source": "maryleelabor census record, 2026-10-31", "M_src": "interpretation", "sense": "what it is not", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "qualified claim (F6 'using BLS methods'; F19, F20, F25 the BLS series)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K13", "claim": "`ML-14`", "source": "maryleelabor census record, 2026-10-31", "M_src": "documented", "sense": "series and coverage periods", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "none (restates the field's own pages: one lineage with them)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K14", "claim": "`ML-15`", "source": "maryleelabor census record, 2026-10-31", "M_src": "documented", "sense": "series and coverage periods", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "none (restates the field's own pages: one lineage with them)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K15", "claim": "`ML-17`", "source": "maryleelabor census record, 2026-10-31", "M_src": "documented", "sense": "series and coverage periods", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "none (restates the field's own pages: one lineage with them)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K16", "claim": "`ML-18`", "source": "maryleelabor census record, 2026-10-31", "M_src": "documented", "sense": "union wages and the union wage gap", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "qualified claim (F14, marked internally_inconsistent)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K17", "claim": "`ML-16`", "source": "maryleelabor census record, 2026-10-31", "M_src": "documented", "sense": "latest compilation", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "none (restates the field's own pages: one lineage with them)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K18", "claim": "`ML-28`", "source": "maryleelabor census record, 2026-10-31", "M_src": "documented", "sense": "latest compilation", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "none (restates the field's own pages: one lineage with them)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K19", "claim": "`ML-19`", "source": "maryleelabor census record, 2026-10-31", "M_src": "documented", "sense": "documentation", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "none (restates the field's own pages: one lineage with them)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K20", "claim": "`O1439-01`", "source": "#1439", "M_src": "stipulation", "sense": "union density as the measure of one sense of the labor movement", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K21", "claim": "`O256-01`", "source": "#256", "M_src": "interpretation", "sense": "unions as organizations: membership, bargaining, caucuses", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K22", "claim": "`ML-11`", "source": "maryleelabor census record, 2026-10-31", "M_src": "interpretation", "sense": "whose record, who holds it, the losing side", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "none (restates the field's own pages: one lineage with them)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K23", "claim": "`ML-24`", "source": "maryleelabor census record, 2026-10-31", "M_src": "documented", "sense": "terms of use: citation required", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "none (restates the field's own pages: one lineage with them)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K24", "claim": "`ML-25`", "source": "maryleelabor census record, 2026-10-31", "M_src": "documented", "sense": "terms of use: citation required", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "none (restates the field's own pages: one lineage with them)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K25", "claim": "`ML-20`", "source": "maryleelabor census record, 2026-10-31", "M_src": "self-description", "sense": "stated limit: small cells", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "none (restates the field's own pages: one lineage with them)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K26", "claim": "`ML-30`", "source": "maryleelabor census record, 2026-10-31", "M_src": "interpretation", "sense": "stated limit: small cells", "qualifiers carried": "the database's own limit (F10)", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "none (restates the field's own pages: one lineage with them)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K27", "claim": "`ML-33`", "source": "maryleelabor census record, 2026-10-31", "M_src": "stipulation", "sense": "what the record's schema asks", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K28", "claim": "`ML-35`", "source": "maryleelabor census record, 2026-10-31", "M_src": "stipulation", "sense": "what the record's schema asks", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K29", "claim": "`ML-06`", "source": "maryleelabor census record, 2026-10-31", "M_src": "stipulation", "sense": "what the record's schema asks", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K30", "claim": "`ML-10`", "source": "maryleelabor census record, 2026-10-31", "M_src": "interpretation", "sense": "whose record, who holds it, the losing side", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "qualified claim (F6: the pages say 'labor union membership, coverage, and density estimates'; 'wage and salary workers' is the census's)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K31", "claim": "`ML-08`", "source": "maryleelabor census record, 2026-10-31", "M_src": "stipulation", "sense": "what the record's schema asks", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K32", "claim": "`ML-12`", "source": "maryleelabor census record, 2026-10-31", "M_src": "interpretation", "sense": "whose record, who holds it, the losing side", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K33", "claim": "`ML-21`", "source": "maryleelabor census record, 2026-10-31", "M_src": "interpretation", "sense": "what it can and cannot settle", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K34", "claim": "`ML-22`", "source": "maryleelabor census record, 2026-10-31", "M_src": "interpretation", "sense": "what it can and cannot settle", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K35", "claim": "`ML-31`", "source": "maryleelabor census record, 2026-10-31", "M_src": "interpretation", "sense": "what it is not", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K36", "claim": "`O1725-03`", "source": "#1725", "M_src": "interpretation", "sense": "the losing position: organ, holder and route", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K37", "claim": "`O1725-01`", "source": "#1725", "M_src": "interpretation", "sense": "unions as organizations: membership, bargaining, caucuses", "qualifiers carried": "the report marks the TDU and CORE items 'unchecked independently here'", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K38", "claim": "`O1725-02`", "source": "#1725", "M_src": "interpretation", "sense": "unions as organizations: membership, bargaining, caucuses", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K39", "claim": "`ML-23`", "source": "maryleelabor census record, 2026-10-31", "M_src": "interpretation", "sense": "the archive's reading: the base counted, no positions kept", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K40", "claim": "`CAP-1-03`", "source": "Capture Registry, 2026-10-31", "M_src": "interpretation", "sense": "the composition at the name: what it held", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K41", "claim": "`CAP-1-06`", "source": "Capture Registry, 2026-10-31", "M_src": "documented", "sense": "the composition at the name: the address and the record", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K42", "claim": "`CAP-1-08`", "source": "Capture Registry, 2026-10-31", "M_src": "documented", "sense": "the composition at the name: what it held", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K43", "claim": "`CAP-1-07`", "source": "Capture Registry, 2026-10-31", "M_src": "documented", "sense": "the composition at the name: what it held", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K44", "claim": "`CAP-1-01`", "source": "Capture Registry, 2026-10-31", "M_src": "documented", "sense": "the composition at the name: what it held", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K45", "claim": "`CAP-1-02`", "source": "Capture Registry, 2026-10-31", "M_src": "documented", "sense": "the composition at the name: the terms not carried", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K46", "claim": "`CAP-1-04`", "source": "Capture Registry, 2026-10-31", "M_src": "interpretation", "sense": "the composition at the name: the terms not carried", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K47", "claim": "`CAP-1-05`", "source": "Capture Registry, 2026-10-31", "M_src": "documented", "sense": "the composition at the name: the terms not carried", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K48", "claim": "`CAP-1-09`", "source": "Capture Registry, 2026-10-31", "M_src": "documented", "sense": "the composition at the name: the address and the record", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" }, { "K": "K49", "claim": "`ML-34`", "source": "maryleelabor census record, 2026-10-31", "M_src": "documented", "sense": "the record: anchor and what it leaves unchecked", "qualifiers carried": "—", "f (source's own falsifiers)": "— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not, uptake §8.3)", "contrast": "missing distinction (the field has no claim on the point)", "resolver": "a later capture at \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\" (ADDR-54f491065ff1) on Google AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)" } ], "kernel_T": [ { "claim": "F10", "note": "the stated limit (small cells, to be used cautiously), absent; T composes the series and the latest data without it (CAP-1-02)" }, { "claim": "F16", "note": "the condition of use, 'Use of data requires citation.', absent; with F17, the citation it requires (CAP-1-02)" }, { "claim": "F9", "note": "the founding year, 2002, absent; 'annual' composed" }, { "claim": "F5", "note": "the date of the latest compilations, 23 January 2026, absent; 'up through the recent CPS releases' composed" }, { "claim": "F8", "note": "the makers' schools and departments, absent; the names composed (with card 1's universities, F2, F12, on the rail)" }, { "claim": "F14", "note": "the wage and wage-gap tables, absent, with their two end dates" }, { "claim": "F15", "note": "the CPS information and supporting documentation, absent" }, { "claim": "F4", "note": "the database's heading, 'Union Membership, Coverage, and Earnings from the CPS', absent" }, { "claim": "F20", "note": "BLS's 2025 figure on its card (45 to 54, 12.6 percent), absent; T gives a figure of its own, '10.0% and 14.7 million', that no saved field text carries" }, { "claim": "F26", "note": "the 2003 ILR Review note on the database (Wikipedia, not surfaced by T), absent" } ], "ledger": { "archive": "datasets/negative-of-the-negative/v2/ledgers/unionstats/ledger-archive.json", "field": "datasets/negative-of-the-negative/v2/ledgers/unionstats/field.json", "selection": "datasets/negative-of-the-negative/v2/traversal/unionstats/", "config": "datasets/negative-of-the-negative/v2/panel/configs/unionstats.json", "intake": "datasets/negative-of-the-negative/v2/intake/unionstats-20261031/", "audit": null }, "ontology": { "composition": "equal", "composition_note": "equal-terms case (v0.9 §0.9, §4.1): one claim space; the field's and the archive's claims ordered together by the entity's dependency and by genealogy within each sense; nothing translated; the census's dating of the wage tables (ML-18) beside F14's two dates, and ML-29 ('NOT official BLS statistics') beside F6 ('using BLS methods') and the BLS series (F19, F20, F25), held under P_coh", "case": { "value": "equal", "statement": "The archive reads the field's entity as the entity. The maryleelabor census record describes the database from its own pages, each field with its basis ('operator'), and answers for it the census's question of whose record it keeps, who holds it and whether it keeps the losing side; the capture record checks the composition against those pages (CAP-1-01, CAP-1-02). No deposit names the database. The deposits that bear on it bear by class: #1439 gives union density as the measure of the deployment-conflict sense of the labor movement, beside a second sense measured otherwise; #256 defines the union by membership, dues and bargaining rights; #1725, the census's anchor, states the losing position's organ, holder and route, with union reform caucuses as cases. Each adds a sense, a measure or a limit on the field's own object, a membership count, and none contests what the field says the database is: ρ = extends, the equal-terms case.", "loci": [ { "dep": 1725, "locus": "Conclusion ¶1 s1–3", "quote": "The decisive variable in the record is what happens to the losing position after the decision. The amount of conflict matters far less. Synthesis followed where the defeated critique kept three things: an organ in which it could keep being stated, a holder with standing independent of the executive, and a route by which the majority could later adopt it without calling that adoption surrender." }, { "dep": 1725, "locus": "Counter-cases where critique acquired power, closing sentence", "quote": "The draft's general point stands: these are unions and a movement, which are different things from ideological parties, and what carries across is the mechanism." }, { "dep": 1439, "locus": "§2.3 The distinction stated, row 'Measured by'", "quote": "| **Measured by** | Union density, contract terms | Provenance Erasure Rate; persistence and stability |" }, { "dep": 256, "locus": "What The Assembly Is Not, 'Not a union.'", "quote": "Unions are legal entities with membership, dues, and collective bargaining rights." } ] }, "E_F": { "type": "C (public entity: an academic Internet data resource of U.S. union membership, coverage and density estimates)", "definition": "the Union Membership and Coverage Database (Unionstats.com; 'Union Membership, Coverage, and Earnings from the CPS'), an Internet data resource of private and public sector union membership, coverage and density estimates, with union and nonunion wages and wage gaps, compiled from the monthly household Current Population Survey by BLS methods; constructed by Barry Hirsch (Georgia State), David Macpherson (Trinity) and William Even (Miami), created in 2002 and updated annually, its estimates economy-wide from 1973, by state, industry and occupation from 1983 and by metropolitan area from 1986, the 2025 compilations completed 23 January 2026; use of its data requires citation, and its small-cell estimates are to be used cautiously; described in a 2003 ILR Review note; beside it, BLS's own Union Members Summary and EPI's tables; no Wikipedia article", "claims": [ "F1", "F2", "F3", "F4", "F5", "F6", "F7", "F8", "F9", "F10", "F11", "F12", "F13", "F14", "F15", "F16", "F17", "F18", "F19", "F20", "F21", "F22", "F23", "F24", "F25", "F26", "F27" ] }, "E_A": { "definition": "the same database, in the maryleelabor census record and the archive's deposits: an Internet data resource of survey estimates in the area of worker power measured, which keeps the measured extent of union membership and coverage among workers surveyed in the CPS, is held by three academic economists on the condition of citation, and does not record the losing side; it cannot say which unions the members belong to, what labor action they take, or what dissent they hold, and is kept apart from official BLS statistics; read by the archive as the measure of the base a labor organization stands on, counting members and keeping none of their positions; union density measuring one sense of the labor movement, the deployment-conflict sense (#1439); the union an entity of membership, dues and bargaining rights (#256); the losing position surviving where it keeps an organ, a holder and a route, union reform caucuses among the cases (#1725)", "claims": [ "ML-01", "ML-09", "ML-02", "ML-03", "ML-04", "ML-32", "ML-05", "ML-27", "ML-26", "ML-13", "ML-07", "ML-29", "ML-14", "ML-15", "ML-17", "ML-18", "ML-16", "ML-28", "ML-19", "O1439-01", "O256-01", "ML-11", "ML-24", "ML-25", "ML-20", "ML-30", "ML-33", "ML-35", "ML-06", "ML-10", "ML-08", "ML-12", "ML-21", "ML-22", "ML-31", "O1725-03", "O1725-01", "O1725-02", "ML-23", "CAP-1-03", "CAP-1-06", "CAP-1-08", "CAP-1-07", "CAP-1-01", "CAP-1-02", "CAP-1-04", "CAP-1-05", "CAP-1-09", "ML-34" ], "defining_papers": [ 1725, 1439, 256 ], "defining_records": [ "maryleelabor census record (census.json rows[slug == 'unionstats'], organizing_question, anchor, areas, schema_note; rows/unionstats.py; rendered aggregators/unionstats/index.html; editor Lee Sharks, compiled 2026-10-31, schema 1.0)", "Capture Registry union-membership-and-coverage-database-aio-20261031 (OBS-e456f01bcece)" ] }, "rho": { "value": "extends", "status": "read from the maryleelabor census record, the capture record and the deposits that bear on the database's class (§1.2a); no deposit names the database", "statement": "The archive reads the Union Membership and Coverage Database as its own pages present it and adds, on the field's own object: the census's question, whose record, who holds it, the losing side, answered for the database (keeps the measured extent of membership and coverage; held by three academics on the condition of citation; losing side not recorded); what its record can and cannot settle; the reading that it counts members and keeps none of their positions; its separation from official BLS statistics; union density as the measure of one sense of the labor movement (#1439); the union defined by membership, dues and bargaining rights (#256); the losing position's organ, holder and route (#1725); and the registry's account of the composition at the name.", "claims": [ "ML-01", "ML-09", "ML-02", "ML-03", "ML-04", "ML-32", "ML-05", "ML-27", "ML-26", "ML-13", "ML-07", "ML-29", "ML-14", "ML-15", "ML-17", "ML-18", "ML-16", "ML-28", "ML-19", "O1439-01", "O256-01", "ML-11", "ML-24", "ML-25", "ML-20", "ML-30", "ML-33", "ML-35", "ML-06", "ML-10", "ML-08", "ML-12", "ML-21", "ML-22", "ML-31", "O1725-03", "O1725-01", "O1725-02", "ML-23", "CAP-1-03", "CAP-1-06", "CAP-1-08", "CAP-1-07", "CAP-1-01", "CAP-1-02", "CAP-1-04", "CAP-1-05", "CAP-1-09", "ML-34" ], "guard": "ρ = extends claims an addition and no more (§1.2a). It does not make the field's sources wrong at their dates. Where an archive claim stands beside a field claim (ML-18 with F14's two dates; ML-29 with F6's 'using BLS methods' and the BLS series, F19, F20, F25; ML-10's 'wage and salary workers', a phrase none of the saved pages carries, beside F6), both are composed under P_coh within the one ontology. The archive's readings of union density, unions and the losing position are applied to classes the field and the census source for the entity (union membership, coverage and density: B4, B2, B3, census area 'worker-power'), never to the database's figures.", "considered": [ { "value": "constructs", "rejected": "the archive does not read the database as made by reception; its records take the database's own pages as the entity's account" }, { "value": "revises", "rejected": "the database is not the archive's own entity; the archive has no earlier statement of it to keep, narrow or withdraw" }, { "value": "witness", "rejected": "#1725's losing-position test and #1439's two senses add a question and a sense; they contest no claim the field makes of the database and supply no ontology of it the field lacks" } ] }, "translation": [ { "lineage": "what it is: an Internet data resource of union membership, coverage and density estimates", "field_claims": [ "F6" ], "received": "F6 (B4, main.htm ¶2): \"is an Internet data resource providing private and public sector labor union membership, coverage, and density estimates compiled from the monthly household Current Population Survey (CPS) using BLS methods.\"", "receiving_text": "—", "translation": "untranslated: composed as received beside ML-01, ML-09, ML-13, ML-07", "archive_claims": [ "ML-01", "ML-09", "ML-13", "ML-07" ] }, { "lineage": "names, the site and its frames", "field_claims": [ "F1", "F3", "F4", "F11" ], "received": "F1 (B1, home page <title> and text (the frameset)): \"Union Membership and Coverage Database\"; F3 (B1, home page, noframes text): \"This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them.\"; F4 (B4, main.htm, heading): \"Union Membership, Coverage, and Earnings from the CPS\"; F11 (B4, main.htm <title>): \"Documentation for the Union Membership and Coverage Database\"", "receiving_text": "—", "translation": "untranslated: composed as received beside ML-02, ML-03, ML-04, ML-32", "archive_claims": [ "ML-02", "ML-03", "ML-04", "ML-32" ] }, { "lineage": "makers, founding and annual update", "field_claims": [ "F8", "F9", "F12", "F2", "F27" ], "received": "F8 (B4, main.htm ¶2 s3): \"constructed by Barry Hirsch (Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University), David Macpherson (Department of Economics, Trinity University), and William Even (Department of Economics, Miami University)\"; F9 (B4, main.htm ¶2 s3 (end)): \"was created in 2002 and is updated annually.\"; F12 (B5, contents.htm, makers block): \"Barry Hirsch , Georgia State University David Macpherson , Trinity University William Even , Miami University\"; F2 (B1, card 1 snippet): \"Union Membership and Coverage Database from the CPS (Unionstats.com) Barry Hirsch, Georgia State University David Macpherson, Trinity University William Even, M...\"; F27 (B6, Barry Hirsch, lead sentence): \"'''Barry T. Hirsch''' (born 1949) is an [[Americans|American]] [[economist]] and the W.J. Usery Chair of the American Workplace at the [[Andrew Young School of Policy Studies]] of [[Georgia State University]].\"", "receiving_text": "—", "translation": "untranslated: composed as received beside ML-05, ML-26, ML-27, ML-11", "archive_claims": [ "ML-05", "ML-26", "ML-27", "ML-11" ] }, { "lineage": "genealogy: the 2003 note and the state series", "field_claims": [ "F26", "F24" ], "received": "F26 (B6, Barry Hirsch, Bibliography (selected)): \"Hirsch, B.T., MacPherson, D.A. (2003). Union membership and coverage database from the current population survey: Note. ''ILR Review'', 56(2), pp. 349–354.\"; F24 (B6, Union affiliation by U.S. state, External links (wikitext line 237)): \"{{cite web |author1=Hirsch, Barry T. |author2=Macpherson, David A. |author3=Vroman, Wayne G. |year=2016 |title=Union Density Estimates by State, 1964–2015 |location=Atlanta |publisher=[[Georgia State University]] |url=http://unionstats.gsu.edu/MonthlyLaborReviewArticle.htm}}\"", "receiving_text": "—", "translation": "untranslated: composed as received (no archive claim stands beside it)", "archive_claims": [] }, { "lineage": "series and coverage periods", "field_claims": [ "F7", "F13" ], "received": "F7 (B4, main.htm ¶2 s2): \"Economy-wide estimates are provided beginning in 1973; estimates by state, detailed industry, and detailed occupation begin in 1983; and estimates by metropolitan area begin in 1986.\"; F13 (B5, contents.htm, section I): \"I. Historical Tables: Union Membership, Density and Employment … By Sector and Demographic Group: 1973-2025 … By Sector and State: 1983-2025 … By Sector and Metropolitan Area: 1986-2025 … By Industry: 1983-2025 … By Occupation: 1983-2025\"", "receiving_text": "—", "translation": "untranslated: composed as received beside ML-14, ML-15, ML-17, CAP-1-01", "archive_claims": [ "ML-14", "ML-15", "ML-17", "CAP-1-01" ] }, { "lineage": "union wages and the union wage gap", "field_claims": [ "F14" ], "received": "F14 (B5, contents.htm, section II): \"II. Historical Tables: Union Wages, Nonunion Wages, and Union Wage Gaps, 1973-2022 … By Sector and Demographic Group: 1973-2025\"", "receiving_text": "—", "translation": "untranslated: composed as received beside ML-18", "archive_claims": [ "ML-18" ] }, { "lineage": "latest compilation", "field_claims": [ "F5" ], "received": "F5 (B4, main.htm ¶1): \"Union data compilations from the 2025 CPS completed January 23, 2026.\"", "receiving_text": "—", "translation": "untranslated: composed as received beside ML-16, ML-28", "archive_claims": [ "ML-16", "ML-28" ] }, { "lineage": "documentation", "field_claims": [ "F15" ], "received": "F15 (B5, contents.htm, section III): \"III. CPS Information and Supporting Documentation.\"", "receiving_text": "—", "translation": "untranslated: composed as received beside ML-19, ML-32", "archive_claims": [ "ML-19", "ML-32" ] }, { "lineage": "terms of use: citation required", "field_claims": [ "F16", "F17", "F18" ], "received": "F16 (B5, contents.htm, foot): \"Use of data requires citation.\"; F17 (B5, contents.htm, foot (the citation)): \"Hirsch, Barry T., David A. Macpherson, and William E. Even (2026). Union Membership, Coverage, and Earnings from the CPS. https://unionstats.com\"; F18 (B5, contents.htm, makers block): \"Email for support or questions\"", "receiving_text": "—", "translation": "untranslated: composed as received beside ML-11, ML-24, ML-25, CAP-1-02, CAP-1-04", "archive_claims": [ "ML-11", "ML-24", "ML-25", "CAP-1-02", "CAP-1-04" ] }, { "lineage": "stated limit: small cells", "field_claims": [ "F10" ], "received": "F10 (B4, main.htm, Note): \"CPS sample sizes are very small for some cells. Use such estimates cautiously.\"", "receiving_text": "—", "translation": "untranslated: composed as received beside ML-20, ML-30, CAP-1-02", "archive_claims": [ "ML-20", "ML-30", "CAP-1-02" ] }, { "lineage": "the official series: BLS union members", "field_claims": [ "F19", "F20", "F25" ], "received": "F19 (B2, card 2 title and snippet (page unreachable: HTTP 403)): \"Union Members Summary - 2025 A01 Results - Bureau of Labor Statistics … Feb 18, 2026\"; F20 (B2, card 2 snippet (page unreachable: HTTP 403)): \"By age, workers ages 45 to 54 had the highest union membership rate in 2025, at 12.6 percent. Younger workers--those ages 16 to 24--had the lowest union members...\"; F25 (B6, Union affiliation by U.S. state, table caption and references (wikitext lines 5–7)): \"'''Union affiliation by U.S. state (2025)'''<ref>{{cite web |author=Bureau of Labor Statistics … {{Cite web |title=Union Members Summary - 2025 A01 Results |url=https://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm\"", "receiving_text": "—", "translation": "untranslated: composed as received beside ML-29", "archive_claims": [ "ML-29" ] }, { "lineage": "other publishers of union membership data", "field_claims": [ "F21" ], "received": "F21 (B3, card 3 title and snippet (page unreachable: HTTP 403, Cloudflare block)): \"Union membership data | Economic Policy Institute … Union membership data * About Support our work Donate * Wage suppression in 10 charts The Cost of Deportations Calculator * Table 1: Union membership and union ...\"", "receiving_text": "—", "translation": "untranslated: composed as received (no archive claim stands beside it)", "archive_claims": [] }, { "lineage": "reception: the encyclopedia", "field_claims": [ "F22", "F23" ], "received": "F22 (B6, Wikipedia: titles Union Membership and Coverage Database and Unionstats; article-space search): \"HTTP 404 (Wikimedia Error page; saved as B6.wiki) … Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. … do not exist. … Union affiliation by U.S. state … Barry Hirsch\"; F23 (B6, Union affiliation by U.S. state, External links (wikitext line 236)): \"{{cite web |author1=Hirsch, Barry T. |author2=Macpherson, David |year=2016 |title=Union Membership and Coverage Database |publisher=Unionstats.com |url=http://www.unionstats.com}}\"", "receiving_text": "—", "translation": "untranslated: composed as received beside CAP-1-09", "archive_claims": [ "CAP-1-09" ] } ], "receiving_texts": "equal-terms case: every field claim composed as received, beside the archive claims it stands with" }, "measure": { "rule": "v0.9 §4.10: KO_B sentences surviving in the KO at similarity ≥ 0.95, with positions (computed as apply_v09.py does: difflib.SequenceMatcher ratio, the best KO sentence for each KO_B sentence)", "v0.9": { "surviving": 0, "of": 13, "positions": [ null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null ] }, "opening_run": { "rule": "v0.9 §5.10 (equal-terms case): the field-only KO's sentences as the KO's opening run in their own order", "breach": false }, "blocks": { "rule": "v0.9 §4.1 (equal-terms and mixed cases): the KO does not open with the field as a block or close with the archive as one; sentences typed by the ledgers of the claims they cite (F field-only, A archive-only, M both)", "sequence": "MMMFFAFFMMMMAAMMAMAAAAFMMA", "field_only_head": 0, "archive_only_tail": 1, "breach": false }, "max_similarity": [ 0.621, 0.397, 0.408, 0.61, 0.421, 0.461, 0.57, 0.575, 0.418, 0.626, 0.427, 0.618, 0.529 ], "ko_sentence_1_max_similarity_to_KO_B": 0.621 }, "homonyms": { "names": [], "basis": "The census row carries no disambiguation field. No card is a homonym: card 1 is the database, cards 2 and 3 are other publishers of union membership data (BLS, EPI), distinct entities on the same subject. 'Unionstats' and 'Union Membership, Coverage, and Earnings from the CPS' are names of the entity (B4, B5; census aka). In the archive, 'CPS' is also the archive's own signature metric in #302 (the Authorial Signature Diagnostic Framework), a homonym of the acronym, read and not admitted.", "distinct_entities": [ "the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Union Members Summary, the official annual release from the CPS (B2; Wikipedia's 2025 state table, B6 F25)", "the Economic Policy Institute's union membership data and its tables (B3)", "Union Density Estimates by State, 1964–2015 (Hirsch, Macpherson and Vroman, 2016; Georgia State University, unionstats.gsu.edu), listed beneath the database on Wikipedia (B6 F24)", "the 2003 note in the ILR Review, 56(2), 349–354, by Hirsch and Macpherson, describing the database (B6 F26)", "the Current Population Survey, the household survey the estimates are compiled from (B4)", "the operators: Barry Hirsch, David Macpherson, William Even (B4, B5; Wikipedia, Barry Hirsch)", "'CPS' in #302, the archive's signature metric (not admitted)" ], "substitutes": { "T": [] }, "register": { "address_1": { "slug": "union-membership-and-coverage-database-aio-20261031", "obs_id": "OBS-e456f01bcece" } } }, "notes": [ "One address, Google AI Overview (expanded), signed out, incognito, 2026-10-31: union-membership-and-coverage-database-aio-20261031 (OBS-e456f01bcece, ADDR-54f491065ff1, AXN:0B67.CAPTURE.🌱🕙♈🖐️⭐🌇), three cards, 193 words in the answer body with its closer. A NEW address (CAP-1-06); the census record landed the same evening and no card cites it.", "Fetching: card 1 fetched with curl and the census's agent 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; maryleelabor-left-census)' at 2026-10-31T22:59:16Z, byte-identical to the census's saved copy of the home page; the home page is a frameset whose frames, contents.htm and main.htm, are the census's own pages, copied from its saved copies as B5 and B4 (sha256 matching the manifest; not refetched). Card URLs: B2 and B3 by WebSearch on title and site.", "Refusals, recorded and not retried with another agent or by any other route (BRIEF-NEW-ROW-LEFT §4): B2, bls.gov, HTTP 403 'Access Denied' (BLS's bot policy page; the census records the same refusal for bls.gov/wsp); B3, epi.org, HTTP 403 (Cloudflare block). Their titles and snippets stand as their only text (F19, F20, F21). Wikipedia's raw wikitext answered HTTP 429 (rate limit) once and HTTP 404 on one retry with the same agent; the rendered page answered 404.", "The archive subset: no archive text names the database, Unionstats or 'Hirsch and Macpherson' (D 0, R 0). The string pass returned 3 O-class candidates in 2 deposits: #302's 'CPS' is the archive's own metric (a homonym; rejected) and #1439's table gives 'Union density, contract terms' as the measure of the deployment-conflict sense (admitted). The hop from #1439 and #1725 (51 candidates in 48 deposits) admitted #256 ('Unions are legal entities with membership, dues, and collective bargaining rights.'). #1725, the census's anchor, was read at the passages naming unions, the holder and the losing side (BRIEF-NEW-ROW-LEFT §8). #771 (DSL) was read at its header and not admitted.", "Defects and out-of-date fields in the maryleelabor census record (reported for the operator; unchanged here): (a) record.keeps says 'among wage and salary workers surveyed in the CPS'; no saved page carries 'wage and salary workers' (main.htm says 'labor union membership, coverage, and density estimates compiled from the monthly household Current Population Survey'), and the definitions are in the census's own unchecked list. (b) answers[0] 'covered by a contract' likewise rests on no saved text: the pages say 'coverage' without defining it. (c) The census's sources list two pages and its manifest three (unionstats--home is in the manifest and the sources directory and absent from rows[...].sources); the home page is named only in unchecked. (d) The contents frame's embedded document metadata gives a creation timestamp 2001-05-14T13:35:00Z (B5.txt), before the stated founding year 2002; this is metadata of the Word document the frame was saved from, recorded here and not ledgered. (e) No field contradicts the census otherwise; Wikipedia's 2016 citation names two makers (Hirsch, Macpherson), the database's 2026 citation three, consistent with Even's later joining, which no source dates.", "Findings of the capture against the field ledger (reported for the operator; unchanged here): findings[0] and findings[1] are borne out (F7; F16, F10). per_dim's atoms are consistent with the field (the name, operator, claim boundary and corpus present; commitments absent), and its 'name' evidence is drawn from the card rail, where the body also names the database. The capture does not record that T's '10.0% and 14.7 million' has no readable field source (B2 refused, B4 and B5 carry no figure), or that T points to EPI for state and industry tables the database's own contents list (F13); both are recorded in this row's delta. cite_list records snip null for all three cards, where the transcript's card rail carries a snippet for each.", "The census row has no disambiguation field (as on the MMRS, provenance and Labor Vector rows). It has relations []. The left census's other worker-power rows are neighbours by area; none had a /non row when this row was written (datasets/negative-of-the-negative/v2/rows/ was read). 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The frameset loads two frames, contents.htm (B5) and main.htm (B4) (frame src attributes in B1.html); the card's snippet is the contents frame's text (B5.txt, the makers block).", "surfaced_by_T": [ { "slug": "union-membership-and-coverage-database-aio-20261031", "card": 1 } ], "card_title": "Union Membership and Coverage Database", "card_snippet": "Union Membership and Coverage Database from the CPS (Unionstats.com) Barry Hirsch, Georgia State University David Macpherson, Trinity University William Even, M...", "card_note": "the registry's cite_list records snip null; the snippet is on the transcript's card rail" }, { "id": "B2", "origin": "card", "role": "Overview card 2", "card": "Bureau of Labor Statistics (.gov) — Union Members Summary - 2025 A01 Results - Bureau of Labor Statistics", "url": "https://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm", "kind": "Overview card (the BLS news release summary, union members in 2025; unreachable)", "files": { "B2-403.html": { "path": "datasets/negative-of-the-negative/v2/intake/unionstats-20261031/B2-403.html", "sha256": "8f8a4f99cba42c3eb7e36b000c18bc2bb798b387a4685c5cdd69c21ac02c8542" } }, "fetched": { "unreachable": true, "agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; maryleelabor-left-census)", "tries": [ { "at": "2026-10-31T22:59:17Z", "url": "https://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm", "http": 403, "sha256": "8f8a4f99cba42c3eb7e36b000c18bc2bb798b387a4685c5cdd69c21ac02c8542", "result": "BLS 'Access Denied' page: 'bot activity that doesn't conform to BLS usage policy is prohibited' (saved as B2-403.html)" } ], "note": "URL by WebSearch on the card's title and site. BLS refused the census's agent with HTTP 403: a refusal, recorded and not retried with another agent or by any other route. The census's own note records the same refusal for bls.gov (unread_sources, bls-work-stoppages--home, 403). The card's title and snippet stand as its only text." }, "names_operator": "no (the snippet names BLS's own release)", "names_archive": "no (none of the Crimson Hexagonal Archive, Alexanarch, Lee Sharks, maryleelabor, machinemediation, EA-WG-CAPTURES-01 in the saved text, card title and snippet; B6.txt carries the fetch agent string only, in its header)", "note": "Wikipedia's Union affiliation by U.S. state cites this page by the card's title (F25).", "surfaced_by_T": [ { "slug": "union-membership-and-coverage-database-aio-20261031", "card": 2 } ], "card_title": "Union Members Summary - 2025 A01 Results - Bureau of Labor Statistics", "card_snippet": "Feb 18, 2026 — By age, workers ages 45 to 54 had the highest union membership rate in 2025, at 12.6 percent. 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