Missouri bucks national trend, adds 46,000 union members - a 15-year high [View all]

“Right-to-work,” minimum wage and the 1% not knowing when to say enough is enough when it comes to squeezing workers is paying off in a surprising way for Missouri unions.

Union membership in the Show-Me state grew last year by 46,000, to 297,000, bucking a national downward trend. Union members now make up 11.1 percent of the state’s workforce, up from 9.4 percent in 2018.

In Illinois, union membership fell by 15,000 last year, reducing the unionization rate from 13.8 percent to 13.6 percent.

Union density nationwide was 10.3 percent last year according to an annual report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Based on a Current Population Survey sample of 60,000 households nationwide, BLS calculated the U.S. had 14.574 million union members last year, down 170,000 (0.2 percent) from 2018.

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