Here are the headlines for my last five writeups of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ annual accounting of union density: Union density: yet another low (2020) Pandemic boosts union density (2021) Union membership resumes its fall (2022) Union density keeps falling (2023) Unions had a flat 2023 (2024). It’s not hard to detect a theme here: near-relentless decline. The only recent up year was 2021, which came about because more nonunion workers lost their jobs than union workers during the worst months of the pandemic, raising the density numbers. (Density is the… Read More