Union Membership Fell to an All-Time Low in 2023

Though the Biden administration pursued several policies aimed at boosting organized labor, the union membership rate fell to an all-time low in 2023, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data released Tuesday.

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Just 10% of American wage and salary workers were union members in 2023, down from the previous all-time low of 10.1% in 2022 and 10.3% in 2021, according to BLS. The continued drops have occurred despite the Biden administration’s efforts to boost organized labor by pushing for union jobs on federal projects and implementing policies aimed “reduc[ing] barriers to worker organizing” by providing information to potential union organizers, among other things.

The unionization rate was 20.1% in 1983, the first year when comparable data was available, according to BLS. The proportion of workers in unions is now less than half of that, with more than three million fewer workers in unions now than in 1983.

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