Good news for organizers: The number of Californians represented by unions rose by 139,000 last year in the wake of successful campaigns across such occupations as nurses, electricians, animation artists, scooter mechanics and university researchers.
The Trump administration loosened the federal government’s “joint employer” rule for businesses that contract out work, making it harder for victims of wage theft at staffing agencies and subcontractors to sue companies where the violations take place.
However, the new BLS data show no clear “Janus” effect. Union membership did drop among local government workers last year, from 40.3% to 39.4%. But it was offset by the share of unionized state government workers, which rose from 28.6% to 29.4%. Among full-time wage and salary workers, union members had median weekly earnings of $1,095 in 2019, while nonunion members had median weekly earnings of $892.However, the BLS noted, “In addition to coverage by a collective bargaining agreement, these earnings differences reflect a variety of influences, including variations in the distributions of union members and nonunion employees by occupation, industry, age, firm size or geographic region.
The states with the highest percentage of represented workers last year were Hawaii , New York , Washington , Rhode Island and Alaska . The states with the smallest shares were South Carolina , North Carolina , Georgia , Virginia and Texas .
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