Union membership in the private sector has dipped to 6.1 percent, according to recent data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). We’ve gathered articles on the news from SHRM Online and other media outlets.
Union Membership Down by More than 200,000
“In 2021, the number of wage and salary workers belonging to unions continued to decline (-241,000) to 14 million, and the percent who were members of unions—the union membership rate—was 10.3 percent,” according to the BLS. The unionization rate of public-sector workers—33.9 percent—was more than five times that in the private sector.
