![]() ![]() ![]() When including government employees, only 10.3% of workers nationwide are union members, roughly half the rate of union membership in 1983, the first year it was tracked by the Labor Department, when union membership made up 20.1% of the nation’s workers. Labor Department data show only 4.4% of retail workers nationwide are members of unions, compared to 6.1% of employees working at businesses overall. The retail sector has a far lower rate of unionization than some other industries. Even if the unions had won all those votes - NLRB data don’t break down how many workers worked at each company holding a vote - it would be a small fraction of the more than 100 million workers at US businesses who don’t belong to a union, according to Labor Department statistics. And the 70% success rate by unions in those votes is far better than the 42% success rate in the first seven months of 2021.īut only 41,000 potential union members were eligible to vote in the 2022 elections. ![]() Between January and July of this year there were 826 union elections, up 45% from the number held in the same period of 2021, according to a CNN analysis of data from the NLRB.
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