Percentage of unionized American workers hits new low

The total number of America’s unionized workers went up in 2022, but the overall percentage of workers who belong to a union fell to a new low in 2022, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Last year, 10.1% of America’s workers were unionized, dropping from 10.3% in 2021, reports Axios. Meanwhile, in 1983, the first year the Bureau reported comparable figures, there was a high number of workers, at 20.1%.

The percentages fell, in part because of the increase in jobs in 2022. The nation’s workforce added 273,000 unionized jobs last year, up 1.9% from 2021, but the overall number of total jobs went up by 3.9% to 5.3 million, which was past the growth in union jobs.