Union Membership peaked in 1955 at 35.7% has continued to decline and now stands at 10%.
1983 20.1%
1984 18.8%
1985 18.0%
1986 17.5%
1987 17.0%
1988 16.8%
1989 16.4%
1990 16.0%
1991 16.0%
1992 15.7%
1993 15.7%
1994 15.5%
1995 14.9%
1996 14.5%
1997 14.1%
1998 13.9%
1999 13.9%
2000 13.4%
2001 13.3%
2002 13.3%
2003 12.9%
2004 12.5%
2005 12.5%
2006 12.0%
2007 12.4%
2008 12.5%
2009 12.3%
2010 11.9%
2011 11.8%
2012 11.3%
2013 11.3%
2014 11.1%
2015 11.1%
2016 10.7%
2017 10.7%
2018 10.5%
2019 10.3%
2020 10.8%
2021 10.3%
2022 10.1%
2023 10.0%
https://www.statista.com/statistics/195349/union-membership-rate-of-employees-in-the-us-since-2000/
Right-to-work laws allow workers to choose whether or not to
join a labor union, and they cannot be forced to join as a condition of
employment.
26 States have Right to Work Laws: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. Right to Work Laws began to be passed by States in 1944. These States allow employees to refuse to join a Union and pay Union Dues.
US Union Membership peaked in 1955 at 35.7% and declined to 10% in 2023. Most of these are Government Employees and Utility Employees. CWA Communication Workers of America membership is 700,000.
The National Education Association is far and away the largest, with over three million members.
The 2nd largest union is the Service Employees International Union, with just about two million members.
The number of non-union Construction Workers has increased from 60.5% in 1973 to 89.3% in 2023.
Comments
Union strikes drove US inflation and lowered productivity. Right to Work States lowered Unionization. NAFTA was a good excuse for US companies to send their auto parts manufacturing to Mexico and close their Unionized Plants. Unions typically try to propagandize its members to develop an antagonistic relationship against management to justify its existence. Unions were led by Marxists, then transferred to the Mafia and then handed back to the Marxists.
My first Union Job was at Granite City Steel. I worked a summer job in 1962 and1963. I was appalled when the Shop Seward walked in one night and knocked over all the stacked steel with the crane, because he expected a slow-down. I predicted their demise. This reinforced my opinion that unions in manufacturing companies had to go. They were anti-productivity.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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