Union membership fell to 11.1 percent of all employees in 2014, down from 11.3 percent in 2013. The decline continues a decades-long trend of unionization decline, down from 20.1 percent in 1983, the earliest directly comparable data.
The total number of union members rose by 48,000 in 2014, to 14.6 million. However, the total number of union members is still 3.1 million lower than in 1983, even though 43 million more people are now employed.
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