Union membership stuck at historic low in 2017

Published January 19, 2018 5:35pm ET



The Labor Department reported Friday that 10.7 percent of all workers belonged to unions in 2017, a number that’s unchanged from the historic low set in 2016.

The data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that only 6.5 percent of private-sector workers and 34.4 percent of public sector belonged to unions. This continues a trend in recent years that has made government worker unions among the most powerful in the labor movement.

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