The number of people who are members of unions in the US has finally stopped dropping. Much of the drop in previous years had to do with a fall off in car industry and construction industry workers. Part probably had to do with successful union busting in industries like newspapers.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports
In 2011, the union membership rate—the percent of wage and salary workers who were members of a union—was 11.8 percent, essentially unchanged from 11.9 percent in 2010, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The number of wage and salary workers belonging to unions, at 14.8 million, also showed little movement over the year. In 1983, the first year for which comparable union data are available, the union membership rate was 20.1 percent and there were 17.7 million union workers.
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