—”n a side note, I wonder how many union drivers there actually are. Good question.”
YES!
An interesting question.
Article from 10 years back:
Excluding government workers, unionized representation in all industries has fallen to a 60-year low. Only 6.6 percent of all private sector workers belong to a union. In trucking, about 2 percent of all 3.5 million truck drivers are unionized.
I drove for one of the biggest LTL companies in the country. Over 20k employees. Non union.