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In the United States, union membership had declined by 14%. [4] In 2008, 12.4% of U.S. wage and salary workers were union members. 36.8% of public sector workers were union members, but only 7.6% of workers in private sector industries were. [5] The most unionized sectors of the economy have had the greatest decline in union membership.
Union affiliation by U.S. state (2024) [1] [2] Rank State Percent union members Percent change Union members Percent represented by unions Percent change Represented
In 2013, the percentage of workers belonging to a union was 11.3%, compared to 20.1% in 1983. The rate for the private sector was 6.4%, and for the public sector 35.3%. [59] In 2023, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that labor union membership hit an all-time low in the U.S., dropping from 10.3% to 10.1%. [60] [61] [62]
WASHINGTON — Union membership in the U.S. dropped to the lowest since the federal government began collecting such data in 1983, according to a report released Thursday by the Bureau of Labor ...
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The labor movement experienced a big — and generally successful — year in 2023. Nowhere was that more apparent in the auto sector, where the United Auto Workers (UAW) extracted big concessions ...
Although wages for workers in trade unions are higher than non-union workers, the gap decreased in the late 20th and early 21st Century. [6] This gap decrease could be due to the diminishing ability for unions to get monopoly rents, hence the rents affected by technology, competition from overseas, and deregulation of different firms/workplaces.
Right-to-work proponents, including the Center for Union Facts, contend that political contributions made by unions are not representative of the union workers. [20] The agency shop portion of this had previously been contested with support of National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation in Communications Workers of America v.