Union membership falls to lowest share on record

Published January 22, 2020 8:03pm ET



Union membership fell to 10.3% of the nation’s workforce in 2019, down two-tenths of a percentage point from the previous year, marking the lowest level since the Labor Department began keeping track in 1983.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday that the total number of workers belonging to unions had declined by about 150,000 members to 14.6 million, while the size of the overall workforce grew.

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