Union membership has been declining since 1983, and reached a historic low in 2024. There was a slight rise in 2020, but this has been attributed to union members being less likely to lose their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2024, the rate of union membership declined again to 9.9 percent. Despite this constant decline, the number of workers represented by a union increased in 2023.

In 2024, there were around 14.26 million workers who were members of labor unions in the United States. This follows a general decline in union membership and was a decrease from 2023, when there were roughly 14.42 billion union members in the United States.

The share of workers in the United States who are members of labor unions has been on the decline since 1983. While rates of union membership have gotten closer between men and women, the rate of male union membership has declined more drastically than that of women. In 2024, **** percent of working men were union members compared to *** percent of women.

While union membership has been on the decline both nationwide and in the construction industry since 2000, the memberships remain high in the construction industry. In 2000, around **** percent of construction workers were union members, compared to * percent of workers across all industries. By 2023, however, union membership in the construction industry had fallen to **** percent.

Interviews were undertaken with trade union officials in to ascertain whether there are links between someone joining a trade union and their family history, or the history of the place where they live. Interviews focused on the participant's experiences of trade unionism, their reasons for joining a trade union and what trade unionism meant to them. This project explored geographical variations in trade union membership in Wales. Previous WISERD research in South Wales suggested that collective understandings, rooted in an earlier period of unionisation, are spilling over into the contemporary period. This project specifically investigated the concept of ‘spillover’ and whether geographical variations in membership levels can be attributed to differences in the nature and activities of trade unions and the attitudes of employers and workers. We also considered how mechanisms of intra-generational and inter-generational transmission and geographical mobility relate to variations of trade union membership. The project also examined how trade unions (and their form) contribute to other dimensions of social capital and whether there is geographical variation in this. The project adopted a mixed-methods approach, combining secondary quantitative data analysis with qualitative interviews. This collection of qualitative interviews was produced as a result. This proposal is for a National Research Centre (WISERD/Civil Society) to undertake a five year programme of policy relevant research addressing Civil Society in Wales. Established in 2008, WISERD provides an 'All-Wales' focus for research and has had a major impact on the quantity and quality of social science research undertaken in Wales. As part of WISERD, WISERD/Civil Society will enable this work to be deepened and sustained through a focused research programme that further develops our research expertise, intensifies our policy impact and knowledge exchange work and strengthens our research capacity and career development activities. WISERD/Civil Society will therefore aim to develop key aspects of the multidisciplinary research initiated during the first phase of WISERD's work to produce new empirical evidence to inform our understanding of the changing nature of civil society in the context of devolved government and processes of profound social and economic change. There are many disagreements over what civil society is and how it may be changing. We do know that over the last forty years there have been unprecedented changes in the spheres of economy and industry, politics and governance, social relations and individual life courses. How individuals in local contexts are affected by and respond to dramatic institutional changes is not well understood. An important gap in our knowledge is in describing and explaining the impact of social change on local forms of civil society and civil society organisations and what this means for social cohesion and well-being. In addition how different forms of civil society are developing in the context of multi-level and devolved government is not well understood. Because of its size and devolved government, Wales offers a unique context for studying these issues. Viewing Wales as a 'laboratory for social science' the proposed centre will build on existing networks of researchers who have a wide range of expertise and skills. Large survey data sets will be exploited and analysed and new data collected on civil society in Wales, the UK and Europe. Inter-disciplinarity and multi-method approaches applied to longitudinal and comparative data will be a key feature and strength of the WISERD/Civil Society research programme. Our research will be underpinned by three principles: (i) to maximise research impact, (ii) to become a centre of excellence for comparative, longitudinal, and relational research methods and (iii) to contribute to the growth of research capacity in Wales. We will also extend our research out from Wales to undertake comparative studies at different regional, national and international levels. In this way WISERD will make substantive and novel contributions to the advancement of social theory applied to researching contemporary civil society and to methodological approaches to describing and explaining patterns of civic participation in the context of devolution and multi-level governance. Substantive research will be applied to real and timely research problems conducted under four inter-related themes: 1) Locality, Community and Civil Society 2) Individuals, Institutions and Governance 3) Economic Austerity, Social Enterprise and Inequality 4) Generation, Life Course and Social Participation. Our aim will be to produce a wide range of outputs accessible to a variety of different audiences, including: academic papers; books; working papers; seminars; web based material; video and e-learning materials; as well as disseminating our work through a diversity of activities. Public awareness will be raised through events; activities; and exhibitions, designed to foster interest and encourage discussion and debate. WISERD/Civil Society will have a strong management structure, substantial institutional support, and close links with relevant organisations, and will provide substantive career development for new and early-career researchers and PhD students. This collection contains 41 semi-structured qualitative interviews. Purposive sampling was undertaken for the identification and selection of information-rich cases related to the geographical variations in the trade union membership phenomenon. This involved identifying a selected sample of trade union officials living in South Wales. The sample was designed to include a range of communities and trade unions. Face-to-face interviews were conducted at a time and location of the participant's choosing. A brief introduction to the study was provided before completing the interview.

Provides annual estimates of trade union membership from the Labour Force Survey for both employees and all workers. National Statistics

In 2023, the union membership rate of employees in South Korea reached ** percent, a decrease from **** percent in the previous year. Union membership has been declining since 1989 and reached a historic low in 2010. South Korea's unionization rate is low compared to other developed countries.

This table contains 99 series, with data for years 1976 - 1995 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (11 items: Canada; Newfoundland and Labrador; Prince Edward Island; Nova Scotia ...), Sex (3 items: Both sexes; Males; Females ...), Components (3 items: Unionized workers; Employees; Union density ...).

In recent years, dozens of grassroots unions have appeared in Greece, which are particularly attractive to both young workers and migrant workers. They are also committed to collective bargaining, deeply democratic and participatory, and attach great importance to the activism of the members that form their basis. (Kretsos, b., 2011, Vogiatzoglou, 2014) In Spain as in Greece, the two major confederations, UGT and CCOOs, miss the old days of collective bargaining, failing to respond to employer attacks and losing demobilized members. (Köhler and Jiménez, 2010, Roca, 2016). In contrast to the large unions, however, the smaller radical unions CGT, and CNT during the crisis significantly increased both their members and the ability to mobilize (Roca, 2016). These unions refer to anarcho-syndicalism and are divisions of the historical CNT of the civil war. Since in Greece we have the re-emergence of anarcho-syndicalism that dominated the labor union movement in Greece in its beginnings and other forms of alternative radical trade union action, we attempt through qualitative semi-structured interviews with members of grassroots unions in Greece and Spain. to their participation in the labor movement and even in institutionalized trade unions seeking to break with the dominant trade unionism. To see similarities and differences in how they experience the mobilization in basic trade unionism, their relationship with both the big unions and the wider social movements (feminist, ecological, etc.) and the prospects for the development of cinematic trade unionism especially in its current environment. acute economic and social crisis.

Scholars and political observers point to declining labor unions on the one hand, and rising white identity politics on the other, as profound changes in American politics. However, there has been little attention to the potential feedback between these forces. In this article, we investigate the role of union membership in shaping white racial attitudes. We draw upon research in history and American political development to generate a theory of interracial labor politics, in which union membership reduces racial resentment. Cross-sectional analyses consistently show that white union members have lower racial resentment and greater support for policies that benefit African Americans. More importantly, our panel analysis suggests that gaining union membership between 2010 and 2016 reduced racial resentment among white workers. The findings highlight the important role of labor unions in mass politics, and, more broadly, the importance of organizational membership for political attitudes and behavior.

As of 2022, around *** percent of employees working in the information industry in the United States were members of a union, marking a decrease compared to the previous year. Overall, the share of information industry employees who were unionized declined from over ** percent in 2000 to around ** percent or below starting 2009.

Number of employees by union status, education level, gender, and age group.

This data is reflective of the State of Connecticut Executive Branch workforce only. The data does not reflect employees of the University of Connecticut Health Center, University of Connecticut and Board of Regents which includes the state university system and community colleges. Judicial Branch and Legislative Branch employees are also not reflected in this data.

The Current Population Survey (CPS) is a sample survey of the population 16 years of age and over. The survey is conducted each month by the U.S. Census Bureau for the Bureau of Labor Statistics and provides comprehensive data on the labor force, the employed, and the unemployed, classified by such characteristics as age, sex, race, family relationship, marital status, occupation, and industry attachment. The information is collected by trained interviewers from a sample of about 60,000 households located in 754 sample areas. These areas are chosen to represent all counties and independent cities in the United States, with coverage in 50 States and the District of Columbia. The data collected are based on the activity or status reported for the calendar week including the 12th of the month. Union data are available for all workers, members of unions and represented by unions, with data available by age, race, Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, sex, occupation, industry, state, and full- or part-time status. Median weekly earnings data are also available for members of unions, represented by unions and non-union with data available by age, race, Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, sex, occupation, industry and full- or part-time status.

Dataset from Ministry of Manpower. For more information, visit https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_f0b6868ab1c4b2fb1ac9aa7f0e722e4f/view

In 2023/24, there were six trade unions in the United Kingdom which had 250,000 or more members, accounting for the majority of trade union members in this year. Of the 5.5 million trade union members, 3.63 million belonged to these largest trade unions, with just 272 belonging to the six trade unions which had fewer than 100 members.

This dataset is about book series. It has 1 row and is filtered where the books is Modelling trade union membership : open shops and private goods. It features 10 columns including number of authors, number of books, earliest publication date, and latest publication date.

The material consists of membership data on municipality level from labour unions belonging to the Swedish Trade union Confederation (LO), temperance lodges and free churches between 1881 and 1950. The material is divided into 25 datafiles, one for every county (län) in Sweden. It gives the number of members for every year the unit has been in existence.

The survey charted kindergarten teachers' views on work community, membership in the Association of Kindergarten Teachers and in the Trade Union of Education in Finland, tasks of a trade union movement, local trade union activity, and the information services of the association. The respondents were asked questions on their education, current job, employer, nature and duration of employment contract, workload, pace of work, and salary. They were presented with a set of statements on kindergarten teachers' work community. Topics covered in the statements included distribution of work, cooperation, interaction, group size, role of the kindergarten director, and collective agreement/collective bargaining agreement. The respondents also indicated what they liked best and worst about their job. Further questions pertained to the association membership and trade union activity. The reasons for the respondents' membership in the association were queried, as well as their elected offices in the trade union. Views on the characteristics of the association and its member services were canvassed. The respondents also indicated the duration of their membership in the association and estimated the amount of the membership fee and the properties of a good trade association. Information services were surveyed by asking the importance of colleagues, employer, shop steward, magazines of the Association of Kindergarten Teachers and the Trade Union of Education in Finland, and TV as sources of information on the respondents' professional identity and looking after their interests. Finally, the respondents expressed their opinions on the offices of the Association of Kindergarten Teachers and the Trade Union of Education in Finland and outlined the tasks of the association in the near future. Background variables included the respondent's gender, year of birth, municipality of residence, marital status, and number of children under 18 in the household.