Today, union membership stands at historic lows of 10%, a stark decline from the 33.5% peak seen in 1954.
Despite a surge in unionizing efforts last year, from Starbucks and Amazon to Trader Joes and Uber, national membership rates fell for the second year in a row. This was due to the rise in non-union jobs, which largely offset the 191,000 new private sector unionized jobs.
This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Dorothy Neufeld, shows the industries with the highest union membership rates in America, based on data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
As we can see in the table below, roughly a third of public sector jobs are unionized, led by the local government sector by a wide margin:
When it comes to the private sector, utilities and transportation have the highest union membership rates, both providing essential services in highly-regulated industries. […]
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