Union membership falls to record low in 2023 despite headline-grabbing year

Published January 23, 2024 3:14pm ET



The share of workers in the United States who are union members dropped to 10% in 2023, a record low, even as organized labor received outsize attention.

The decline was a subtle drop from the year before, when union membership sat at 10.1%. The total number of wage and salary workers belonging to unions in 2023 was 14.4 million, according to data released on Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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