A flip of the script in an outlier of a year has resulted in a U.S. labor market with more unionized workers in government jobs (7.17 million) than in private-sector jobs (7.08 million).
The Bureau of Labor Statistics just released annual union membership figures for 2020, and there’s not a lot for trend-spotters to latch onto beyond the obvious that the labor market went almost completely pear-shaped. Unions lost 321,000 workers to hit an all-time low membership total (14.3 million), yet at the same time managed to gain market share for the first time since 2008 to reach the ...
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