How to Resurrect America’s ‘Golden Middle': Kathryn Edwards

The share of US workers represented by a union ended 2024 at 9.9%. Strip out public sector workers and the rate was 5.9%. Both numbers are even more stunning once you realize union representation is less now than 1934, the year before the right to organize was enshrined into law by the National Labor Relations Act. Logically, the decline is either because the desire or need to be in a union has diminished, or the law has become so weak that the right to organize is no longer protected. Although both are to blame, it’s mostly the latter.

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