At least 13 of the largest U.S. unions lost members as the coronavirus pandemic overwhelmed the U.S. economy last year, presenting a new setback for a labor movement already in decline.
The breadth of those losses varied by industry, though some public-sector unions managed to gain members, buoyed by essential worker designations, according to a Bloomberg Law analysis of financial disclosures filed recently with the U.S. Labor Department. Hospitality took the brunt of the pain, with the UNITE HERE union losing a staggering 56% of its members, while some manufacturing and private-sector unions escaped harder hits from the impact of ...
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