Seventy percent of Americans approve of labor unions, according to a Gallup push poll released this week. Naturally, Big Labor’s allies in the media are touting the poll as evidence that unions are having their biggest moment since the 1960s. 

In reality, workers are fleeing unions in droves despite the Biden administration’s best efforts to force workers into unions. Any “momentum” for Big Labor is a media fantasy. An all-time low of 10% of the American workforce was unionized in 2023, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In 1983, 20.1% of workers were unionized. Only 6% of private sector workers were unionized in 2023.