Despite another year of wall-to-wall positive media coverage for organized labor, the union membership rate ticked down in 2024.
Despite another year of wall-to-wall positive media coverage for organized labor, the union membership rate ticked down in 2024.
E very year is a banner year for American labor unions, according to the media. If their coverage was all you knew about organized labor in the U.S., you’d think union membership was soaring as countless workplaces, no matter how seemingly irrelevant, receive national news stories about their organizing drives. You’d think America’s largest and most popular companies are quaking in fear at the overwhelming power of Big Labor. You’d think unions were able to move armies of voters to decide the presidential election and persuade the general public to adopt progressive views.
As I included in past articles from January 2023 and 2024, here’s a sampling of the past year of union coverage from the media:
January 25, 2024, New York Times: “Journalists at New York Daily News Walk Off Job for a Day”
January 25, 2024, The American Prospect: “Why Virginia Costco Workers Organized With the Teamsters”
January 29, 2024, Jacobin: “Why We Need Union Halls in Every Town”
January 31, 2024, CNN: “Trump said he had a ‘great’ relationship with unions. This union executive says otherwise.”
February 1, 2024, The American Prospect: “The Momentum From the UAW’s Victorious Strike Continues”
February 1, 2024, NBC News: “Unions plan pushback on proposed driverless taxi expansion in L.A.”
February 5, 2024, Reuters: “Biden weighing joining Las Vegas hotel workers on picket line, union chief says”
February 7, 2024, The Nation: “The UAW Is Organizing the South”
February 9, 2024, Washington Post: “California fast-food workers form new union, first of its kind for industry”
February 12, 2024, Jacobin: “The AFL-CIO Gaza Cease-Fire Call Is Historic”
February 13, 2024, CNN: “Disneyland’s Mickey, Minnie, Donald and Goofy want to join a union.”
February 13, 2024, Associated Press: “Flight attendants are holding airport rallies to protest the lack of new contracts and pay raises”
February 14, 2024, NPR: “Journalists turn to picket lines as the news business ails”
February 15, 2024, The American Prospect: “Southern Autoworkers Organize, Business Class Tries to Wallop Them”
February 15, 2024, Washington Post: “Unions are hugely popular. Why aren’t they more powerful?”
February 16, 2024, The Nation: “Michigan Just Became the First State in 6 Decades to Scrap an Infamous Anti-Union Law”
February 16, 2024, Jacobin: “How Union Reformers Took Over the Vermont AFL-CIO”
February 18, 2024, New York Times: “A Union Leader in Nebraska Tries to Leap to the Senate on Labor’s Strength”
February 19, 2024, The Nation: “Enjoy Labor’s Tailwinds—but Don’t Forget to Keep Rowing!: The recent upsurge in organizing is worth celebrating, but workers can’t afford to rest.”
February 20, 2024, NPR: “21 Starbucks stores see petitions for union elections in the same day”
February 21, 2024, Politico: “Strikes hit 23-year high last year, Labor Dept. says”
February 23, 2024, Associated Press: “California State University student workers vote to unionize, creating largest such union in country”
February 24, 2024, Vulture: “Fran Drescher Gives ‘Hot Labor Summer’ a Shout-Out”
February 25, 2024, New York Times: “Why Microsoft Has Accepted Unions, Unlike Its Rivals”
February 26, 2024, The American Prospect: “The Auto Workers Go All In: By devoting $40 million to its campaign to organize non-union auto plants, the UAW is challenging not just corporate America but also labor’s status quo.”
February 26, 2024, Washington Post: “Biden supercharged these Michigan unions. Will workers return the favor?”
February 28, 2024, The Nation: “The Auto Workers Who Stand With Gaza”
February 29, 2024, Jacobin: “Seven Lessons from Starbucks Workers’ Historic Victory”
March 1, 2024, Reuters: “Starbucks union seeks national template for US bargaining”
March 2, 2024, New York Times: “Big Labor Gamble: Push to Unionize Every U.S. Auto Plant”
March 4, 2024, The American Prospect: “Reformed Capitalism in Seattle; Baristas’ Unionism”
March 5, 2024, CNN: “Minnesota unions plan to wage simultaneous strikes.”
March 5, 2024, NBC News: “Dartmouth men’s basketball team votes 13-2 in favor of first labor union for college athletes”
March 5, 2024, New York Times: “‘Scary and Daunting’: Dartmouth Players Detail How Union Plan Came Together”
March 6, 2024, Associated Press: “Massachusetts art museum workers strike over wages”
March 7, 2024, The Nation: “The Future of College Sports Is Unionized”
March 7, 2024, CNN: “Biden campaign recognizing unionizing efforts by headquarters staff.”
March 7, 2024, Financial Times: “America’s most powerful union leaders have a message for capital”
March 8, 2024, New York Times: “About 600 Workers Unionize at Microsoft-Owned Activision”
March 8, 2024, The Conversation: “UAW’s Southern strategy: Union revs up drive to get workers employed by foreign automakers to join its ranks”
March 11, 2024, The Nation: “How the Palestinian Justice Movement Helped Starbucks Workers United”
March 11, 2024, The Nation: “What We Can Learn From Minnesota Unions’ Big Contract Wins”
March 11, 2024, CNN: “Dartmouth basketball’s union vote is just a small part of the campus organizing wave.”
March 15, 2024, The Nation: “Shawn Fain: ‘Trump Doesn’t Give a Damn About Working-Class People’”
March 15, 2024, Jacobin: “Hollywood Unions Are Back at the Bargaining Table”
March 18, 2024, CNN: “UAW seeks breakthrough as it files union vote at Volkswagen’s Tennessee plant”
March 22, 2024, The American Prospect: “New Clean-Car Rule May Transform Unions in America: The Environmental Protection Agency rule makes it impossible for Volkswagen to shut down its EV-producing plant in Tennessee, which is being targeted by the UAW.”
March 24, 2024, Jacobin: “Worker-to-Worker Unionism: A Model for Labor to Scale Up: At the heart of the current uptick in union organizing at companies like Starbucks has been ‘worker-to-worker unionism.’”
March 25, 2024, The Nation: “The Chicago Teachers Union Wants to End Student Homelessness at the Bargaining Table”
March 25, 2024, The New Republic: “Unions Offer a More Promising Future than Politicians: Labor unions are more popular than most elected officials. A labor journalist explains how they can build political power.”
March 31, 2024, Vox: “Want a 32-hour workweek? Give workers more power.”
March 31, 2024, Jacobin: “The UAW’s 2028 National Strike Should Center Medicare for All”
April 5, 2024, CNN: “UAW reaches milestone in filing for union vote at second nonunion automaker”
April 5, 2024, NPR: “Seeking to defy history, the UAW is coming closer to unionizing in the South”
April 8, 2024, Jacobin: “The Barnes & Noble Union Fight Is Spreading”
April 17, 2024, New York Times: “VW Workers in Tennessee Start Vote on U.A.W., Testing Union Ambitions”
April 17, 2024, Reuters: “Focus: UAW seeks landmark win in third Tennessee VW plant vote”
April 17, 2024, CNN: “Mickey, Minnie, Donald and Goofy file for union vote at Disneyland”
April 17, 2024, Joe Biden, Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2024: “Shawn [Fain] represents the hard-won success that unions—from the Teamsters, to the SEIU, to writers and actors, dockworkers and health care workers, baristas, warehouse workers, and more—had in making 2023 the year of the union.”
April 19, 2024, New York Times: “A Union Vote at Volkswagen Is a Big Test for Organized Labor”
April 19, 2024, New York Times: “VW Workers in Tennessee Vote for Union, a Labor Milestone”
April 20, 2024, New York Times: “Could the Union Victory at VW Set Off a Wave?”
April 20, 2024, Associated Press: “Autoworkers union celebrates breakthrough win in Tennessee and takes aim at more plants in the South”
April 20, 2024, Politico: “UAW conquers hostile political territory with Tennessee win”
April 22, 2024, Reuters: “UAW wins big in historic union vote at Volkswagen Tennessee factory”
April 22, 2024, The American Prospect: “The UAW’s Chattanooga Victory: Score One for the North in Our Endless Civil War”
April 22, 2024, NPR: “Tennessee Volkswagen workers defy decades of union failures by voting to join the UAW”
April 22, 2024, NPR: “Volkswagen vote sets a new trajectory for labor unions in the American South”
April 22, 2024, Los Angeles Times: “Column: The UAW sends a lightning bolt into anti-union states with a huge victory at a VW plant”
April 23, 2024, CNN: “The anti-union South is starting to crack”
April 23, 2024, The New Republic: “Republicans Are Rattled by the UAW’s Big VW Victory in Chattanooga”
April 24, 2024, NPR: “The UAW’s decade-long fight to form a union at VW’s Chattanooga plant”
April 24, 2024, Vox: “A unionized Volkswagen plant in Tennessee could mean big things for workers nationwide”
April 25, 2024, Paul Krugman, New York Times: “Can Biden Revive the Fortunes of American Workers?: He’s the most pro-labor president since Harry Truman. Is that enough?”
April 25, 2024, The New Republic: “Southern Autoworkers Call B.S. on Republican Anti-Union Agitprop”
April 25, 2024, Associated Press: “U.S. labor secretary says UAW win at Tennessee Volkswagen plant shows southern workers back unions”
April 25, 2024, The American Prospect: “The Newcomer From the Shop Floor: Dan Osborn is a mechanic who had never been to Washington until this month and doesn’t own a suit. He wants to be Nebraska’s U.S. senator, running as an independent.”
April 27, 2024, Financial Times: “US dealmakers forced to adjust as unions flex their muscles”
April 28, 2024, The New Republic: “UAW’s Latest Labor Victory Is a Huge Climate Win, Too”
April 29, 2024, NPR: “A drive through Alabama shows how pro-union sentiments are rising in the deep South”
May 3, 2024, New York Times: “What Happened When the Skating Coaches Wanted a Union”
May 10, 2024, The American Prospect: “All Quiet on the Western Front: Bay Area students organize effectively, but haven’t heard back from university administrators.”
May 12, 2024, Jacobin: “Labor Can Scale Up Its Recent Wins”
May 13, 2024, Jacobin: “Unions Need to Spend Big to Seize the Day”
May 15, 2024, New York Times: “A Case Against a Top New York Restaurant Could Lower Barriers to Unions”
May 15, 2024, Politico: “University of California student workers vote to strike amid Gaza protest furor”
May 15, 2024, Reuters: “Cannabis company must bargain with union that lost election, US judge rules”
May 16, 2024, NPR: “UAW president Shawn Fain’s swagger has helped unionize the deeply anti-union South”
May 16, 2024, New York Times: “U.A.W. Effort to Organize Mercedes Workers in Alabama Has High Stakes”
May 17, 2024, NPR: “Mercedes workers vote no to union. UAW says they were illegally intimidated”
May 17, 2024, Vox: “The unionization fight is coming to the South”
May 17, 2024, Associated Press: “After decisive loss at Alabama Mercedes plants, powerful auto union vows to return and win”
May 17, 2024, Reuters: “UAW’s stinging loss in Alabama won’t kill national organizing effort”
May 18, 2024, New York Times: “A Loss at Mercedes-Benz Slows U.A.W.’s Southern Campaign”
May 19, 2024, New York Times: “Disneyland Character Workers at California Park Vote to Unionize”
May 20, 2024, The New Republic: “There’s Good News About the Labor Movement in the South”
May 21, 2024, New York Time: “Kamala Harris Courts Union Members, an Up-for-Grabs Group of Voters”
May 22, 2024, MSNBC: “The union plan to unleash a cash tsunami for Biden”
May 24, 2024, Associated Press: “Workers at Georgia school bus maker Blue Bird approve their first union contract”
May 29, 2024, The American Prospect: “Has Organized Labor Finally Cracked the South?”
May 30, 2024, Government Executive: “Biden’s labor report card: Historian gives ‘Union Joe’ a higher grade than any president since FDR”
May 31, 2024, CNN: “Biden campaign HQ staffers finalize union agreement, making it the first presidential reelection campaign to organize”
June 3, 2024, Jacobin: “Unions and Tenant Organizations Are Natural Allies”
June 9, 2024, Jacobin: “The Best Way to Secure LGBTQ Rights: Unions”
June 10, 2024, CNN: “Welcome to another summer of uncertainty in Hollywood as more crew union contract negotiations get underway”
June 12, 2024, New York Times: “As the U.A.W. Scores Wins in Red States, Tensions Emerge Over Gaza Protests”
June 18, 2024, New York Times: “How the Teamsters and a Homegrown Union Plan to Take On Amazon”
June 18, 2024, The American Prospect: “Teachers in the South Go Union”
June 19, 2024, Los Angeles Times: “Column: How anti-union Southern governors may be violating federal law”
June 25, 2024, Washington Post: “Why the steelworkers union might crush Nippon’s bid for U.S. Steel”
July 1, 2024, New York Times: “Brooke Shields Has Worn Many Hats. Now She’s a Labor Boss.”
July 9, 2024, Washington Post: “Why are Democrats sticking with Biden? Ask the unions.”
July 10, 2024, Associated Press: “Massachusetts ballot question would give Uber and Lyft drivers right to form a union”
July 12, 2024, The New Republic: “Shawn Fain Is the President We Deserve. Yes, Really.”
July 18, 2024, New York Times: “W.N.B.A. Players, Bargaining Power Soaring, Seek Expert Advice on Labor Deal”
July 17, 2024, Reuters: “US union organizing, and unions’ election win rate, is surging, NLRB says”
July 19, 2024, NBC News: “Thousands of Disneyland workers vote to authorize a strike”
July 19, 2024, Associated Press: “American Airlines has a contract deal with flight attendants, and President Biden is happy about it”
July 22, 2024, Government Executive: “Unions applaud ‘most pro-union president in history’ following Biden’s decision to end campaign”
July 23, 2024, The New Republic: “Major Labor Unions Make Shocking Show of Force Toward Biden on Israel”
July 24, 2024, Jacobin: “Workers Want Unions. Labor Movement Ingenuity Can Provide.”
July 25, 2024, New York Times: “Microsoft’s World of Warcraft Workers Vote to Unionize”
July 25, 2024, New York Times: “Hollywood Actors to Go on Strike Against Video Game Companies”
July 26, 2024, The American Prospect: “Waffle House Workers Challenge the Southern Economy: One union chips away at the vestiges of Jim Crow-era labor policies.”
July 31, 2024, Associated Press: “UAW endorses Harris, giving her blue-collar firepower in industrial states”
August 6, 2024, New York Times: “Apple Store Workers Get First U.S. Contract”
August 6, 2024, NPR: “4 reasons why labor unions love Tim Walz”
August 10, 2024, Jacobin: “Tenants’ Unions Across the US Now Have a National Federation”
August 10, 2024, NBC News: “Biden’s White House has tried to boost unions. The election could change that.”
August 13, 2024, The New Republic: “UAW Hits Trump and Musk After Disgusting Conversation on Workers”
August 14, 2024, New York Times: “A Nurses’ Union Flexed Its Power. One Hospital Is Pushing Back”
August 14, 2024, Reuters: “UAW union launches pro-Harris campaign to mobilize workers across US”
August 19, 2024, The American Prospect: “Labor Is In the House: What a difference a different presidential candidate makes.”
August 20, 2024, Washington Post: “Sen. Gary Peters: ‘When unions succeed, all workers win’”
August 20, 2024, Associated Press: “Las Vegas hospitality workers at Venetian reach tentative deal on first-ever union contract”
August 23, 2024, Jacobin: “Shawn Fain Has Been a Light in the Darkness”
August 25, 2024, Vox: “US teacher strikes were good, actually”
August 27, 2024, The New Republic: “Kamala Harris Has Got a Game-Changing Plan for Labor in Her Hands”
August 28, 2024, The American Prospect: “A Landmark Federal Ruling Against Union Busting Has Boosted Organizing”
September 1, 2024, New York Times: “About 10,000 Hotel Workers Walk Off the Job on Labor Day Weekend”
September 1, 2024, New York Times: “Your Hotel Is on Strike. What Should You Do?”
September 2, 2024, NPR: “Unions are taking more prominent roles in U.S. politics as support for labor rises”
September 2, 2024, New York Times: “Why Thousands of Hotel Workers Are on Strike”
September 2, 2024, The Nation: “‘The Union Movement Is Very Excited About Harris and Walz’”
September 2, 2024, The New Republic: “Labor’s Next Big Moment May Finally Be at Hand”
September 4, 2024, Associated Press: “Workers at General Motors joint venture battery plant in Tennessee unionize and will get pay raise”
September 5, 2024, NPR: “How U.S. Unions Took Flight”
September 13, 2024, New York Times: “Boeing’s Strike Halts Airplane Production at Key Plants”
September 14, 2024, New York Times: “Ending the Boeing Strike Won’t Be Easy. Here’s Why.”
September 19, 2024, Jacobin: “Biden’s Labor Board Is Boosting Bottom-Up Union Organizing”
September 20, 2024, New York Times: “San Francisco Symphony Chorus Goes on Strike”
September 20, 2024, CNN: “‘We can’t be voting for an anti-union derelict’: Union executive on Trump”
September 23, 2024, Los Angeles Times: “Push to unionize U.S. pharmacies gets boost in Redlands”
September 25, 2024, New York Times: “Republicans Pick Up Unlikely Allies in Key House Races: Unions”
September 25, 2024, The New Republic: “Teamsters Chapters in Key Swing States Are Bucking National Leadership: Kamala Harris racking up crucial endorsements in several swing states.”
September 25, 2024, Jacobin: “Maine Unions Lead on the Green Energy Transition”
September 25, 2024, Los Angeles Times: “SAG-AFTRA looks to unionize intimacy coordinators”
September 25, 2024, Politico: “A looming strike could disrupt the economy just before the election. It’s mostly up to 1 fiery union leader.”
September 25, 2024, Associated Press: “Video game actors’ union calls for strike against ‘League of Legends’”
September 27, 2024, New York Times: “National Symphony Orchestra Players Reach Deal After Brief Strike”
September 30, 2024, The Nation: “Want to Build Worker Power? Ask an Architect”
September 30, 2024, Associated Press: “Alleging landlord neglect, Omaha renters form unions to fight back”
October 1, 2024, New York Times: “How the Dockworkers’ Strike Could Ripple Through the Economy”
October 1, 2024, The American Prospect: “Why the Longshore Workers Strike Is Economically Justified”
October 1, 2024, Reuters: “From Boeing to FedEx, US labor unions flex muscle”
October 2, 2024, Jacobin: “US Labor Has a Responsibility to Stop Israel”
October 3, 2024, New York Times: “‘They Can’t Survive Too Long’: The Union Leader Who Shut Down the Ports Is Playing Hardball”
October 3, 2024, CNN: “Meet Harold Daggett, the colorful and controversial union boss leading the port strike”
October 3, 2024, Washington Post: “‘Nothing’s gonna move!’ Dockworkers tough union in spotlight with port strike: The storied union behind the port strike halting ships from Maine to Texas reflects a throwback to a more traditional, top-down era of labor culture and activism.”
October 3, 2024, Huffington Post: “Why Republicans Are Suddenly Scrambling to Save a Senate Seat — In Nebraska, Of All Places: Independent Dan Osborn is gaining unexpected traction in his bid to unseat Sen. Deb Fischer”
October 4, 2024, The American Prospect: “Biden’s Amazing Win Settling the Dock Strike”
October 4, 2024, Jacobin: “Striking East Coast Dockworkers Just Won Big”
October 6, 2024, Associated Press: “More Black and Latina women are leading unions—and transforming how they work”
October 8, 2024, The American Prospect: “SEIU Works the South”
October 8, 2024, The Nation: “Meet Dan Osborn, the Heartland Populist From Nebraska Who’s Running for the Senate”
October 9, 2024, New York Times: “Boeing and Workers Dig In for a Long Fight, Despite Strike’s Cost”
October 15, 2024, CNN: “Dan Osborn’s unorthodox campaign challenges GOP stronghold in Nebraska’s US Senate race”
October 15, 2024, New York Times: “Biden Takes on Campaign Duty in Pennsylvania, Celebrating Unions”
October 15, 2024, Reuters: “Union election petitions have doubled since Biden took office, NLRB says”
October 16, 2024, New York Times: “In Dallas, an Entire Dance Troupe Was Fired. Now They’re Protesting.”
October 17, 2024, Los Angeles Times: “Union drive at Wells Fargo heats up as employees allege intimidation tactics”
October 17, 2024, New York Times: “‘Union’ Review: A Labor Fight to the Finish at Amazon”
October 21, 2024, The American Prospect: “Can Hotel Workers Save the Democrats?: In the swing state of Nevada, the Harris campaign needs the Vegas hotel union’s ‘army’ to overcome Donald Trump.”
October 21, 2024, Reuters: “Nebraska independent Dan Osborn could be poised to shake up US Senate”
October 21, 2024, The New Republic: “Defunct Oil Wells Are a Problem. Union Workers Could Be the Solution.”
October 23, 2024, New York Times: “Boeing Workers Resoundingly Reject New Contract and Extend Strike”
October 23, 2024, Washington Post: “The union workers who could determine the election”
October 25, 2024, The American Prospect: “In Search of the Trump-Osborn Voters: Dan Osborn is forging a new path through red states with anti-corporate populism and working-class identity politics.”
October 25, 2024, New York Times: “Republicans Assumed a Nebraska Senate Seat Was Safe. Then This Candidate Came Along.”
October 25, 2024, Los Angeles Times: “Review: Labor organizers score against Amazon in ‘Union,’ a complex, essential documentary”
October 26, 2024, Associated Press: “This independent candidate is worrying Republicans in deep-red Nebraska’s Senate race”
October 28, 2024, NPR: “Labor unions make a final push canvassing door to door in swing states”
October 29, 2024, New York Times: “Why this Senate Candidate Is a Potential ‘Shock to the System’: Michelle Goldberg went to Nebraska and found political hope in an independent.”
October 30, 2024, The New Republic: “Don’t Cancel Your Post Subscription—or Prime. Organize Your Workplace.”
October 30, 2024, NPR: “Union workers could decide this election — and their unions know it”
November 1, 2024, The American Prospect, “Drunk Shakespeare Actors, Bartenders Win Tipsy Union Contract”
November 3, 2024, USA Today: “Could Dan Osborn, an independent candidate in Nebraska, upend the U.S. Senate race?”
November 4, 2024, New York Times: “New York Times Tech Workers Go on Strike”
November 5, 2024, Associated Press: “Strike at Boeing was part of a new era of labor activism long in decline at US work places”
November 6, 2024, New York Times: “Ride-Hailing Drivers in Massachusetts Win Right to Unionize”
November 10, 2024, New York Times: “The White House Will Be Shedding Its Union Label: After gains by organized labor under President Biden, a second Trump administration is likely to change course on regulation and enforcement.”
November 18, 2024, Jacobin: “Labor’s Resurgence Can Continue Despite Trump”
November 19, 2024, New York Times: “Dan Osborn Wants to Help the Working Class Run for Office”
November 20, 2024, Associated Press: “Workers at Kentucky electric vehicle battery production complex start drive to unionize”
December 12, 2024, Vulture: “Love Is Blind’s Hannah Did Have a Job, Actually: A new complaint by the National Labor Relations Board calls the show’s contestants ‘employees.’”
December 16, 2024, Joe Biden, The American Prospect: “It is no accident that union election petitions have doubled since I took office. Support for unions is the highest it’s been in more than half a century, and the labor movement is expanding to new companies and industries.”
December 17, 2024, NPR: “‘Love Is Blind’ cast are employees, labor board says. Could a reality TV union be next?”
December 19, 2024, New York Times: “Amazon Delivery Drivers at Seven Hubs Walk Out”
December 19, 2024, CNN: “‘I wanna live better’: Amazon worker explains why she’s striking”
December 19, 2024, New York Times: “Starbucks Workers Begin a Strike in 3 Cities on Friday”
December 19, 2024, Jacobin: “How Labor Can Fight Trump’s Authoritarianism”
December 22, 2024, CNN: “Starbucks union strike expands to 9 states”
December 22, 2024, Associated Press: “Amazon and Starbucks workers are on strike. Trump might have something to do with it.”
December 23, 2024, New York Times: “Baristas at More Than 300 Starbucks Stores Walk Out, Union Says”
January 4, 2025, New York Times: “Striking Patrollers Disrupt Season at Largest Ski Resort in U.S.”
January 6, 2025, New York Times: “Journalists at The Athletic Move to Join New York Times Union”
January 9, 2025, New York Times: “Park City Strike Ends With Increase in Wages for Ski Patrollers”
January 9, 2025, Associated Press: “Striking ski patrollers at the biggest US resort return to work claiming victory”
January 10, 2025, The New Republic: “The Labor Movement Just Notched Two Big Wins”
January 10, 2025, Jacobin: “The Video Game Industry Is Unionizing”
January 12, 2025, New York Times: “Stagehands Walk Off the Job at Atlantic Theater Company”
January 23, 2025, Jacobin: “Dan Osborn Hopes to Inspire More Working-Class Independents”
January 25, 2025, In These Times: “This Labor Leader Who Nearly Unseated a GOP Senator Wants More Working-Class Candidates to Run”
Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics:
The union membership rate–the percent of wage and salary workers who were members of unions — was 9.9 percent in 2024, little changed from the prior year. . . . The number of wage and salary workers belonging to unions, at 14.3 million, also showed little movement over the year. . . . The number of private-sector union members declined by 184,000 in 2024, offsetting the increase in 2023. The number of public-sector union members changed little in 2024. . . . The union membership rate in the private sector declined by 0.1 percentage point over the year to 5.9 percent.
The American people overall simply don’t want what organized labor is selling, no matter how much the media tell them otherwise.