Unions had a flat 2023

Despite an apparent upsurge in labor militancy, unions made no gains in their share of the workforce last year. According to newly released figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2023, 10.1% of the workforce belonged to a union, unchanged from the previous year and down 0.2 from 2019. There was a spike in union density in 2020, as more nonunion workers left the workforce than their organized counterparts in the early covid days, but that was quickly reversed in 2021. Since 1965, union density has risen only four times from… Read More