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US union membership rate hits all-time low despite campaigns

FILE - Starbucks employees and supporters react as votes are read during a viewing of their union election, Dec. 9, 2021, in Buffalo, N.Y. The U.S. union membership rate reached an all-time low in 2022, despite high-profile unionization campaigns at Starbucks, Amazon and other companies. Union members fell to 10.1% of the overall workforce, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. That was down slightly from 10.3% in 2021. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex, File) FILE - Michelle Eisen, a barista at the Buffalo, N.Y., Elmwood Starbucks location, helps out the local Starbucks Workers United, employees of a local Starbucks, as they gather at a local union hall to cast votes to unionize or not, Feb. 16, 2022, in Mesa, Ariz. The U.S. union membership rate reached an all-time low in 2022, despite high-profile unionization campaigns at Starbucks, Amazon and other companies. Union members fell to 10.1% of the overall workforce, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. That was down slightly from 10.3% in 2021. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File) FILE - Amazon JFK8 distribution center union organizer Jason Anthony speaks to media, April 1, 2022, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The U.S. union membership rate reached an all-time low in 2022, despite high-profile unionization campaigns at Starbucks, Amazon and other companies. Union members fell to 10.1% of the overall workforce, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. That was down slightly from 10.3% in 2021. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File)
US union membership rate hits all-time low despite campaigns