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Atlanta: Georgia State University. State Union Membership Density, 1964–2008 ; State Union Coverage Density, 1977–2008 This page was last ...
The percentage of workers belonging to a union (or "density") in the United States peaked in 1954 at almost 35% and the total number of union members peaked in 1979 at an estimated 21.0 million. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] Membership has declined since, with private sector union membership beginning a steady decline that continues into the 2010s, but the ...
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At 12.8 %, Illinois had the 13th-highest unionization rate among all states. A total of 707,829 people in Illinois were unionized in 2023, down from nearly 847,000 in 2015. The public sector ...
From 1930 to 1960, union participation increased and contributed to reducing the income gap across America, according to a 2021 article in the Quarterly Journal of Economics.
The National Labor Union (NLU), founded in 1866, was the first national labor federation in the United States. It was dissolved in 1872. The regional Order of the Knights of St. Crispin was founded in the northeast in 1867 and claimed 50,000 members by 1870, by far the largest union in the country.
Much of the new development is occurring in conservative states with low union representation and weaker labor protections, such as “right to work” laws that let workers opt out of union ...
In the United States, union membership had declined by 14%. [4] In 2008, 12.4% of U.S. wage and salary workers were union members. 36.8% of public sector workers were union members, but only 7.6% of workers in private sector industries were. [5] The most unionized sectors of the economy have had the greatest decline in union membership.