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 ...

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.

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.

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.

U.S. union membership levels declined slightly to record lows last year, a government report said on Tuesday, and now organized labor faces fresh challenges from President Donald Trump's return to ...

Nearly two decades ago, the UAW had more than 650,000 members. Its peak was 1.5 million in 1979. In the past 10 years, union membership peaked in 2017 at 430,871 members and has slowly declined since.

In 30 states, union membership shrank in these five years, with California having the biggest drop, off 124,800. Then came Washington state, off 89,900, and Florida, off 89,200.