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1 in 10 US workers belong to unions − a share that’s stabilized after a steep decline

  • Written by Jake Rosenfeld, Professor of Sociology, Washington University in St Louis
1 in 10 US workers belong to unions − a share that’s stabilized after a steep declineMembers of the faculty union of the California State University system walk a picket line in December 2023.Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images1 in 10 US workers belong to unions − a share that’s stabilized after a steep declineCC BY-ND

The share of U.S. workers who belong to a union fell slightly to 10% in 2023, from 10.1% a year earlier, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

As a scholar of organized labor, I’m not...

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