Union Membership Rate In The U.S. Fell Again Last Year

[yortsed snacilbuper]

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The share of U.S. workers who belong to a labor union dropped from 10.5% to 10.3% in 2019, even as public approval of unions reached its highest level in years.

Unions face tough headwinds in Washington and statehouses around the country. An increasing number of states have passed “right-to-work” laws that forbid contracts requiring all the workers in a bargaining unit to pay union fees. That, in turn, has allowed workers to stop financially supporting unions that must continue to represent them. A landmark Supreme Court ruling in 2018 effectively made the entire U.S. public sector right-to-work.

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[doc03]

1. That started with that SOB Reagan nt

[former9thward]

3. Nope.

Union membership hit a high in the late 1950s and has been declining ever since.

[doc03]

5. There were a few years before Reagan where

it leveled off or increased. Since Reagan it has been a
steady decline. Looks to me the Nixon years were really bad then it improved some during Carter.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. The number held steady, but the rate fell because there are more jobs. Anecdotally, Janus hasn't

had much of an impact, and this data set isn't big enough to determine what impact it's had at all.

[Recursion]

4. We're still more unionized than France

And France just had a 7-week transit strike which included a one day general strike. Union membership is not the magic bullet here.

[xmas74]

6. It actually climbed in Missouri last year.

I don't have the source offhand but it was recently quoted at a meeting and then emailed with links.

[avlbeerfan]

7. Best $$$ I ever made.

In the 90's I worked in a union, best $$$ I ever made. Today I work for a mid size city in civil service that desperately needs union organizing because the management pays themselves top pay for top people but try's to pay the people doing the actual work and who knows the systems as little as possible.

The union reps NEED to get out there and organize and recruit new people! Hell aybe because the mobs not running it anymore they are resting on their laurels.