Union density

Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that 10.1% of U.S. workers were union members in 2022, the lowest level on record.

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

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

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

The latest BLS report shows Washington as the nation’s third most-unionized, while Oregon is tied for #11.

10.7 percent of American workers are union members.