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Between 2022 and 2023, trends in union membership slightly altered, with 14.4 million wage and salary workers belonging to a union last year, less than a 1% increase from 2022. Here's what the ...
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last month that trade union membership in the US had fallen by another 219,000 workers in 2000, bringing the percentage of union members in the workforce ...
The state lost about 46,000 union members last year, mostly in the public sector. In Indiana, where a new right-to-work law took effect in March, the state lost about 56,000 union members.
Union membership rates vary across the US with rates of over 20% in Hawaii and New York. Overall, 20 states had rates greater than 10.3%, the share of US wage and salary workers in unions in 2021.
Union membership in the United States fell last year to a new low even as the labor movement scored a string of significant victories at high-profile companies that have long evaded unionization ...
According to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics today, the union membership rate fell to 11.1 percent, with just 14.6 million wage and salaried workers maintaining membership. In 2013 ...
In 2023, unions added 139,000 members, but the share of the U.S. workforce that's unionized declined from the year before due to even faster growth in nonunion jobs.
Among American workers, participation in a union fell to 10.5 percent last year, from 10.7 percent in 2017 and 2016, with all demographic groups seeing a decline in membership.
The rate of union participation in Illinois fell to its lowest point in a decade in 2023, according to a new report from the nonprofit Illinois Economic Policy Institute (IEPI) and the University ...