(Schlademan declined to disclose OUR Walmart's membership numbers). Regardless of who's counting, the strikers comprised a tiny minority of Walmart's massive workforce.
Thirty years on, the argument about coal is now focused on the threat of global warming and carbon emissions, rather than the tiny workforce that still mines it or the social wreckage in the coalfields left behind by Thatcher's social vandalism.
If current trends continue, the hub economy will spread across more industries, further concentrating data, value, and power in the hands of a small number of firms employing a tiny fraction of the workforce.
More than half of university students are women, yet they make up a tiny fraction of the workforce.
But we only have about 500,000 apprentices in the U.S. That's a tiny fraction of the workforce.
It would take only a penstroke to repeal these rules, which make a tiny fraction of the workforce practically unsackable, at the expense of everybody else.
To illustrate this point, economists often point to data on the earnings of workers in the top 10%, 1%, or 0.1%, which show a tiny share of the workforce taking home an ever-larger slice of the economic pie.
Mining and agriculture together account for only a tiny fraction of the workforce; however, dairy products, corn (maize), maguey (agave), and other farm products are sold in urban markets.
While mining employs a tiny fraction of the workforce and contributes only a small proportion of the state's gross domestic product, its significance to the economy is enhanced by its substantial links to transport, processing, and other related industries, by its high share of total exports, and by its contribution to decentralization.
Thanks to forthright and transparent diversity reports published by a number of companies, we now have real data that underrepresented minorities are only a tiny sliver of our workforce — particularly in engineering departments — despite representing about a quarter of the population in the United States.
