As I've referenced before, I am almost hitting the 10 year mark of writing and hosting trivia shows at a local watering hole. I do it for fun and some "walking around cash" as my Dad and Grandpa used to say. I never invoke my views on politics, but am able to sprinkle questions involving politics with no one the wiser.
This past Saturday, I asked the crowd of 8 teams of people:
Within 5%, what percentage of U.S. employees are members of a union?
Every single team didn't even get in the neighborhood of the right range or answer.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2020, the percentage is:
In 2020, the percent of wage and salary workers who were members of unions--the union
membership rate--was 10.8 percent, up by 0.5 percentage point from 2019, the U.S. Bureau
of Labor Statistics reported today. The number of wage and salary workers belonging to
unions, at 14.3 million in 2020, was down by 321,000, or 2.2 percent, from 2019. However,
the decline in total wage and salary employment was 9.6 million (mostly among nonunion
workers), or 6.7 percent. The disproportionately large decline in total wage and salary
employment compared with the decline in the number of union members led to an increase
in the union membership rate. In 1983, the first year for which comparable union data
are available, the union membership rate was 20.1 percent and there were 17.7 million
union workers.
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htmSo when liberals pander to the the unions, just wanted to remind everyone that they are a TINY part of the American public.