The number of Americans in an organized union went down in 2019, while the number of strikes went up.
The number of work strikes and the number of union members are going in opposite directions, and that divergence is highlighting an important fact about today’s job market, experts say.
So why are there more worker protests even though there are fewer workers formally banding together in the first place? Sure, more people were ready to speak up — but that’s also a sign of their mounting frustration, said Heidi Shierholz, policy director of the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. “If even this very tight labor market can’t deliver strong wage growth to me, I’ve got to try something else,” said Shierholz, who noted the country’s growing divide between the rich and everyone else.
More recently, state-level “right to work” laws have eaten into membership, union advocates say. The laws can let workers enjoy the benefits of a union contract, but prohibit unions from collecting fees from the benefitting non-union workers. Organized labor proponents like the Economic Policy Institute say that can make it harder for unions to support themselves financially.
But the BLS tally doesn’t include other 2019 worker protests, like when thousands of Uber UBER, -2.81% and Lyft LYFT, -2.95% drivers protested pay and working conditions for several hours in May, ahead of Uber’s IPO. The formal tally also didn’t count when McDonald’s MCD, -0.02% workers, joined by some Democratic presidential candidates, protested ahead of the fast food giant’s shareholder meeting.
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