Union membership resumes its fall as union density is down from 10.8% in 2020 to 10.3% in 2021

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Union membership fell by almost 2% in 2021 as employment rose by over 3%. That took union density—the share of the workforce belonging to unions—down from 10.8% in 2020 to 10.3% last year, where it was in 2019. Density rose in 2020 because more nonunion workers lost their jobs in the covid crisis than their unionized counterparts, but 2021’s return to employment undid that. Doug Henwood published Left Business Observer, a newsletter on economics and politics, from 1986–2013.