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The percentage of workers belonging to a union (or "density") in the United States peaked in 1954 at almost 35% and the total number of union members peaked in 1979 at an estimated 21.0 million. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] Membership has declined since, with private sector union membership beginning a steady decline that continues into the 2010s, but the ...
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.
Public school teachers, RNs, professional, technical and non-professional health care workers. 2022: AFT: International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) 1891 820,000 Electrical manufacturing workers; electric utility workers. 2012: IBEW: Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA) 1903 669,772
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
A union shop, which allows for hiring non-union employees, provided that the employees then join the union within a certain period. An agency shop, in which employees must pay the equivalent of the cost of union representation, but need not formally join the union.
Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31, No. 16-1466, 585 U.S. ___ (2018), abbreviated Janus v.AFSCME, is a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court on US labor law, concerning the power of labor unions to collect fees from non-union members.
In 2010 8.4 million government workers were represented by unions, [19] including 31% of federal workers, 35% of state workers and 46% of local workers. [20] As Daniel Disalvo notes, "In today's public sector, good pay, generous benefits, and job security make possible a stable middle-class existence for nearly everyone from janitors to jailors."
AFGE is the largest union for civilian, non-postal federal employees and the largest union for District of Columbia employees who report directly to the mayor (i.e., outside D.C. public schools). It is affiliated with the AFL–CIO.