What Big Labor Doesn’t Want You to Know This Labor Day

This Labor Day, the Biden administration and Big Labor will no doubt tout the alleged successes of President Joe Biden’s “whole of government” push to increase unionization in the workplace and unions’ modest successes in breaking into a few big corporations. But those stories will also leave a lot out. They’ll leave out the side of the story that unions don’t want workers to know.

That side of the story includes the fact that unionization reached an all-time low of 10.1% in 2022 (and only 6.0% among private sector workers) as worker satisfaction reached an all-time high of 62.3% (according to The Conference Board’s measure, which began in 1987). It also includes the fact that while non-union wages increased by 24% over the past five years, union wages rose by less than 17%.

Those union losses have come even as the Biden administration has pressed legal boundaries to tip the scales in unions’ favor, including by making new ways to unionize workplaces without a secret ballot vote or even in the face of a majority of workers voting against unionizing.

Big Labor and Big Government will argue that declining union membership necessitates government action. But the main reason it’s harder to organize workers today is because unions are providing less and less of what workers want.

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