{"id":1817492,"date":"2023-01-20T13:21:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T18:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1817492"},"modified":"2023-01-20T13:22:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T18:22:02","slug":"union-membership-plummets-to-record-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/union-membership-plummets-to-record-low\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Membership Plummets to Record Low"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Funion-membership-plummets-to-record-low%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1817492&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/DCNF_Daily-Caller-News-Foundation_logo-1200x351-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy aligncenter wp-image-4766933\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/DCNF_Daily-Caller-News-Foundation_logo-1200x351-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"250\" height=\"73\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4766933\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/DCNF_Daily-Caller-News-Foundation_logo-1200x351-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"250\" height=\"73\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>In 2022, the rate of union membership dropped to a record low of 10.1%.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/union2.nr0.htm\">according<\/a>\u00a0to a Thursday report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), despite President Joe Biden\u2019s promise to bolster American unions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2023\/01\/16\/joe-biden-daughter-social-worker-ashley-national-action-network-al-sharpton\/\">Biden<\/a>\u00a0Promised \u201cbe the most pro-union president you\u2019ve ever seen\u201d A group of supporters, the night before the 2020 election.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycallernewsfoundation.org\/2023\/01\/19\/union-membership-plummets-to-record-low-despite-bidens-promises-to-increase-it\/be%20the%20most%20pro-union%20president%20you%E2%80%99ve%20ever%20seen\">according<\/a>\u00a0According to the Associated Press, he signed an executive Order in April 2021\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2021\/04\/26\/fact-sheet-executive-order-establishing-the-white-house-task-force-on-worker-organizing-and-empowerment\/%20no%20other%20snapshots%20from%20this%20url\">creating<\/a>\u00a0A task force was established to study how the federal government could increase membership. Union membership declined in 2021 and 2022 despite these efforts. New non-union jobs outpaced those of union workers.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/union2.nr0.htm\">according<\/a>\u00a0To the BLS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI campaigned to restore the backbone of this country: the middle class and unions,\u201d Biden\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS\/status\/1546195522834337793\">wrote<\/a>\u00a0July 2022 \u201cBecause I know this. The middle class built America and unions build the middle class.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Unions built the middle class in this country \u2013 and we couldn\u2019t have gotten this infrastructure law done without them. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5MjEZpNXM0\">pic.twitter.com\/5MjEZpNXM0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 President Biden (@POTUS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS\/status\/1462168788716171269?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the BLS, 10.3 percent of union members were present in 2021. This is still a significant drop from the 20.1 percent recorded in 1983, which was the first year these data were collected. The largest proportion of union members remains to be government employees. 33.1 percent of workers in the public sector are members of unions, while only 6 percent of workers in the private sector are.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s task force made dozens of recommendations for how the federal government could help increase union membership, such as by bolstering union organizers\u2019 access to workers on federal property and blocking employers from using money from federal contracts in anti-union activities,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/07\/business\/economy\/biden-union-membership.html\">according<\/a>\u00a0The New York Times<\/p>\n<p>Biden and Vice President\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2023\/01\/16\/where-kamala-harris-been-seven-months-migration-border\/\">Kamala Harris<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/xKs46#selection-1167.0-1169.53\">blamed<\/a>\u00a0Stagnant wages, declining union membership, economic inequality, lower salaries for women and people with disabilities, and the weakening American democracy as a 2021 White House factsheet show how this has happened. Biden\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS\/status\/1546195522834337793\">frequently<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS\/status\/1597739687246008321\">lists<\/a>\u00a0Stimulating\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2023\/01\/18\/teachers-unions-collectively-bargained-woke-policies\/\">unions<\/a>\u00a0As one of his top priorities.<\/p>\n<p>The White House did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p><em>Any legitimate news publisher with a large audience can access all content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Contact us if you have any questions regarding our guidelines or partnership opportunities.\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2022, the rate of union membership dropped to a record low of 10.1%.\u00a0according\u00a0to a Thursday report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), despite President Joe Biden\u2019s promise to bolster American unions. Biden\u00a0Promised \u201cbe the most pro-union president you\u2019ve ever seen\u201d A group of supporters, the night before the 2020 election.\u00a0according\u00a0According to the Associated &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1705066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[5458,7507,4892,4752,3819,4701],"class_list":["post-1817492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bongino","tag-membership","tag-plummets","tag-record","tag-report","tag-union"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1817492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1705066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1817492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1817492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1817492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}