Union membership hits rock bottom

Published February 10, 2017 8:06pm ET



Union memberships keep declining. The latest Bureau of Labor Statistics report on union membership found the trend has not changed. This time, it’s declined to the lowest point in United States history since the agency began keeping track.

In 2015, the public and private sector union membership rate was 11.1 percent of the combined workforce. It dropped to 10.7 percent in 2016, a loss of 240,000 union members.

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