If we very conservatively estimate there will be 166 million total workers by 2032, and we add a million new union members, there would be 15 million union members a decade from now, for a union density of less than 10%. According to the BLS, America will add 12 million jobs during the 2020s decade, with total employment rising to 165. So adding a cool million in the next decade seems pretty good. Right? In raw numbers, 800, 000 union members were lost in the past decade. In 2021, the most recent year on record, there were 14 million union members, for a density of 10. 8 million union members in America, for a union density of 11. One decade ago, in 2011, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) says there were 14. Kinda sounds like a lot? Right? Well my friends, let’s do a little quick math.
The convention’s motto, after all, is “Building the Movement to Meet the Moment.”Ī million new members. This was presented as a bold new statement that the AFL-CIO is, at last, putting organizing on the front burner. “We will develop, implement and scale powerful campaigns for unprecedented union growth,” Shuler said. Liz Shuler, the newly elected president of the AFL-CIO, announced from the convention stage the formation of the “Center for Transformational Organizing,” with the stated goal of organizing at least 1 million new working people in the next 10 years. Thus, the AFL-CIO - America’s largest union coalition, representing the vast majority of our nation’s union members - unveiled, at its convention in Philadelphia, with much fanfare, a brand new formal goal: to see to it that union density keeps declining for the next decade.Īllow me to be very specific. We know, therefore, that increasing union density is the labor movement’s most pressing task. All of the downstream damages to the working class - lower relative wages, higher economic inequality, less political power - flow from this decline. Nothing makes the crushing decline of unions in America more intelligible than the fact that at their height in the mid- 20 th century, one in three workers was a union member, and today, scarcely one in 10 is. All Rights Reserved.The single best measurement of the strength of labor unions is union density - the percentage of the total workforce that is unionized.
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