Union Membership In Washington: See Recent Trends

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WASHINGTON — The upcoming Labor Day holiday celebrates workers in Washington and across the United States, and many of them are either members of, or represented by, unions.

Union membership in Washington was at 17.4 percent in 2020, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics from earlier this year shows. That’s approximately 557,000 of 3.2 million Washington employees who were members of unions when the data was taken. Another 39,000 non-union workers' jobs were covered by a union or employee association contract in 2020 even though they themselves weren’t members.

That’s down from Washington's union numbers in 2019. About 638,000 were union members that year, accounting for 18.8 percent of wage and salary workers. However, Washington's union membership remains much higher than the national average, which was 10.8 percent in 2020, according to the labor statistics bureau. The national union membership rate went up by 0.5 percent from 2019.



Nationally, union membership in 2020 was much more common among public sector workers, 34.8 percent, compared with those in the private sector, 6.3 percent, the labor statistics bureau found in its report, which used membership data collected as part of the monthly Current Population Survey.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/union-membership-in-washington-see-recent-trends/ar-AAO4Wbz

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1. That's

sad. I guess we can thank all the union buster A-holes.