Union Membership Rate in U.S. Held at Record Low of 10.7% in 2017
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The share of American workers belonging to labor unions held steady in 2017, matching the historic low of 10.7 percent set in the prior year, according to a Labor Department report Friday.
The membership rate for wage and salary employees is down from 20.1 percent in 1983, when the government began tracking comparable data, and from more than one-third of workers in the 1950s, according to separate figures looking further back.