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Union membership ticked up in 2022 but union-busting takes a toll, this week in the war on workers [1]
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Date: 2023-01-21
The number of workers represented by a union rose by 200,000 in 2022, but the overall share of workers represented by a union dropped from 11.6% to 11.3%, according to an Economic Policy Institute (EPI) analysis of government data. That is, the overall size of the workforce rose more quickly than the size of the unionized workforce.
“The entire increase in unionization in 2022 was among workers of color—workers of color saw an increase of 231,000, while white workers saw a decrease of 31,000,” the EPI team of Heidi Shierholz, Margaret Poydock, and Celine McNicholas notes. “Of all major racial and ethnic groups, Black workers continue to have the highest unionization rates, at 12.8%. This compares with 11.2% for white workers, 10.0% for Latinx workers, and 9.2% for Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) workers.”
But as the anti-union campaigns by the likes of Starbucks and Amazon remind us, many more workers want to be in unions. These companies wouldn’t be spending millions of dollars on union-busting consultants and lawyers if they thought workers would reject unions on their own. The most recent survey asking nonunion workers if they would like to join a union is from 2017. That year, 48% said they would vote to unionize. Extrapolating from that, EPI finds that around 60 million workers wanted to join a union in 2022 and didn’t have the chance.
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