Even as the labor movement scored victories at high-profile companies such as Amazon and Starbucks, the share of the workforce in unions continued to decline.
The share of the workforce in labor unions dropped to 10.1 percent, the lowest on record, the Labor Department said Thursday, even as the total number of union members in the United States grew by 273,000 last year. The labor movement could not keep up as the booming job market added 5.3 million jobs, and nonunion jobs grew at a faster clip than union positions.
Union efforts and labor activism tend to flourish in tight labor markets, where job opportunities are abundant, since employers are less likely to retaliate against workers when they’re a scarce resource. Union membership rates are higher among Black workers compared with White and Latino workers, in part due to higher levels of public-sector employment among Black workers. Black union membership rates rose in 2022 to 11.6 percent, meanwhile White and Latino membership rates fell to 10 and 8.8 percent, respectively.Hawaii and New York continued to lead the country with the highest rates of union membership, at 21.9 and 20.7 percent, respectively.
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