Posted on 01/20/2023 12:57:57 PM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
Union membership hit an all-time low in 2022 despite a surge in organizing efforts that emerged during the pandemic.
The percentage of U.S. workers who belong to a union dropped from 10.3 percent to 10.1 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Thursday, as the job market added non-unionized workers at a faster rate than unionized workers. That’s the lowest the figure has been since the agency first started tracking comparable data nearly four decades ago.
The decline comes despite the highest union approval rate in decades and a pro-union administration — and backs up earlier findings that while many workers view organized labor favorably, that doesn’t always mean they want to join its ranks. Gallup reported earlier this year that while 71 percent of Americans view unions favorably, 58 percent of non-unionized workers say they are “not interested at all” in joining a union.
Workers launched a series of high-profile unionization drives in 2022, including at nationwide chains Amazon and Starbucks. The federal agency that oversees union elections, the National Labor Relations Board, reported a 53 percent uptick in petitions filed during the fiscal year.
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IIRC there was a SCOTUS ruling that union dues could not be withheld by default and workers had to specifically request it...?
Ami I misremembering?
Puts a smile on my face every time I receive one of these.
Some trends remained unchanged: The union membership rate of public-sector workers was still more than five times the rate of private-sector workers, at 33.1 percent and 6 percent, respectively.
The propaganda around "unions," and what Americans believe about them, is completely fraudulent.
In reality, anything promoting "unions" are merely about promoting left-wing controlled, government employee voting blocs.
Still far too many DNC-controlled Union Thugs.
END THEM ALL - if you don’t like your job, find another, just as the other 90% of the country (the people who are NOT forced to fund the DNC) has to do.
But this is the result of Democrat policies.
Good. The vast majority of workers know better than to become chattel for the union bosses with their diamond pinky rings.
I’ll always fondly remember the one who told me if I made trouble I could “end up in a snowbank with my fingers broken.”
That was in Alaska.
They’re catching on. Unions are self serving....duh.
I was a scab. I was Civil Service and took an exam. This was in the 80s. I gave a damn. They did nothing for my group.
They are some formerly swing states who are now completely under rat control who are right to work. Look for that to change soon
If FDR’s warning about allowing government workers to unionize had been heeded, the 6% union membership would be all there is, and that doesn’t justify a Labor Department. Teachers and Government unions are negotiating with sympathizers; not adversaries. There is no push back at all.
Imagine a world with no teacher’s unions or municipal pensions strangling most large state economies.
At this point unions are synonymous with GOVERNMENT employee.
10% of workers (14.3 million) in the US belong to unions. Over half of those (7.2 million) are public sector employees.
Thus only 6% of private sector employees (of 120.36 million workers) belong to unions.
(WSJ. 2023: Jan 20)
Labor unions are at best a violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, which they only are exempt to because of the 1935 National Labor Relations Act, which was passed by two demoncrat-controlled houses of Congress and signed by a socialist president but only after putting enough progressivist judges on SCOTUS to be sure it wouldn’t be overturned.
And at worst they are (and historically tend toward) organized crime.
If unions were ever useful, they have outlived their usefulness. They exist to exist.
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