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The rate of unionization in a country is measured through both the number of workers represented by a union as well as the share of workers represented by unions in a country. This is due to that although more workers may be joining unions, industries represented by unions are increasing at a faster rate. [19]
Union membership had been declining in the US since 1954, and since 1967, as union membership rates decreased, the middle class share of aggregate income shrank correspondingly. [57] In 2007, the labor department reported the first increase in union memberships in 25 years and the largest increase since 1979.
The unionization rate in the U.S. and Canada followed fairly similar paths from 1920 to the mid-1960s; both peaked at about 30%. However the U.S. rate declined steadily after 1974 to 12% in 2011. Meanwhile, the Canadian rate dropped from 37% the mid-1980s to 30% in 2010.
The unionization rate for public-sector employees, including government workers, teachers and police, was far higher, at 32.5%. US unions flexed their muscles last year, but membership rates fall ...
The unionization rate for 2022 was the lowest on record, according to the Bureau. But even as the rate fell, the actual number of workers belonging to unions, at 14.3 million, increased by nearly ...
The unionization rate of employed wage and salary workers was 11.9 percent, down from 12.3 percent in 2009. Among private sector employees, the rate Union Membership Down, Government Concerned
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Florida’s overall unionization rate reached as high as 8.7% of ITS workforce in 2000, the first year the federal government began tracking the data, and it has slowly wobbled downwards ever since.