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About 15 million American workers are union members, but polling shows that some 50 million more would join a union today if they could. What if that happened? That’s the question researchers at the Economic Policy Institute sought to answer in a first-of-its-kind report, “The Case for Tripling Union Membership,” published in July. Tripling union […]
Unions saw modest growth last year both nationwide and in Minnesota, where 15.8% of workers were represented by unions in 2025, an increase of 1%.
Minnesota bucked the national trend of declining union membership last year, as the state’s union rolls grew by 18,000 workers.
Working people’s voice grew stronger last year in Minnesota, where organizing gains pushed union membership to its highest point since 2004.
Union members are becoming increasingly scarce in the U.S. labor force. It’s a trend that continued in 2016, when union density fell from 11.1 to 10.7 percent of the total workforce, according to federal report issued in January. Unions’ demise has assumed an aura of inevitability. So when the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its […]
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