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As organized labor gains more steam

is there a stat somewhere that agrees with this? please say yes and share a link; i would like to believe this is true, but i suspect that a union’s biggest hurdle is still convincing white people that non-white people need to be in their union.

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TurtleJoe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
https://www.epi.org/publication/union-membership-data/

Overall, it shows union rates being mostly a wash in 2023, but that’s due to a large increase in total jobs that year; raw number of members went up, rate slightly declined. Black workers made up almost the entire grid increase.

The point that maybe relates most to what OP was saying:

These statistics don’t capture the number of workers who want to join unions. Evidence suggests that in 2023, more than 60 million workers wanted to join a union but couldn’t do so.

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FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
This reply came more from the big wins Labor has experienced the last two years, such as the auto, rail, and writers’ strikes being resolved, not individual stats.

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cruncher@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I think there’s also the problem of certain sectors of work, like tech or retail, which should be unionized but aren’t. Either because a lack of a history of unionization or because companies can too easily close a location and open another one across the street.

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