Union membership slumps to pre-pandemic levels

By Alex Tanzi
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U.S. union membership fell to a record low as a share of the workforce in 2022, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The union membership rate — the share of wage and salary workers who were members of unions — was 10.1% last year, falling below the pre-pandemic level of 10.3% in 2019, the BLS reported on Thursday. In 1983, the first year for which comparable data are available, the membership rate was 20.1%.

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