Bureau of Labor Statistics Archives

Inflation hits 41-year high

Jun 16, 2022

If you haven’t gotten an 8.6% raise over the past year, you’re not keeping up with inflation, which is at its highest level since 1981.

Top on-the-job killers

Apr 20, 2022

Transportation-related accidents are the lead cause of workplace death— more fatalities than falls, violence and harmful substances combined.

America’s most dangerous jobs

Apr 20, 2022

Most on-the-job deaths occur in the trucking industry, but a handful of workplaces have a higher fatality rate.

Wages jumped in 2021, but inflation jumped higher

Feb 2, 2022

Wages for U.S. workers rose 4.5% in 2021, the fastest in 13 years. The biggest were in “leisure and hospitality” where wages jumped 14%.

Unions drop back to 10.3% of workforce

Feb 2, 2022

Last year’s jump in the percentage of workers who are union-represented appears to have been related to COVID.

Strikes disappear again in 2020

Feb 19, 2021

It looks like the 2018-2019 strike surge was a blip, not the start of a new trend. Last year there were just 8 strikes of over 1,000 workers.

Unions in 2020: membership is down, but share of workforce is up

Jan 22, 2021

Union members continue to out-earn nonunion workers—19.4% more, on average. And Oregon now ties with California as the 7th most unionized.

Nationwide strike wave continued in 2019

Feb 11, 2020

The strike wave that began in 2018 continued in 2019, according to the annual work stoppages report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Union membership continues decline

Feb 5, 2020

Union membership dropped in 2019 to 14,574,000, down 170,000 (0.2%) from 2018, according to the latest annual report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Union members also dropped as a percentage of the workforce

Are we bringing the strike back?

Feb 11, 2019

Back from rock bottom, strikes exploded in number last year.