Only 10.7 percent of the U.S. workforce belonged to a union in 2016, the Labor Department reported Thursday, a decline of 0.4 points from the previous year. Overall 14.6 million people were in unions, a decline of 240,000 from the previous year.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics data marked the continuation of a long-term trend of thinning union ranks. In 1983, the first year the department started tracking the number, the unionization rate was 20.1 percent, accounting for about 17.7 million workers.

Recommended Stories

House intelligence and national security hawks suffer major losses in midterm elections

Newsom commutes executions for all 548 California inmates on death row

Left-wing troublemakers are only ‘noise’ due to large majorities: Former Virginia governor