Labor unions in the United States have a history that is as rich and storied as the nation itself. Unions pushed for the 40-hour work week as far back as 1917, and they worked with and against corporate America to enshrine labor standards, wage standards, cost of living contracts, and much more over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Today union membership in the United States looks radically different than even 60 years ago.
Union membership peaked in the mid-1950s, with nearly 35% of the American workforce being unionized. The income share of the top 1% of earners was barely 5% of the national income, and the middle class was experiencing its golden age. Today however, union membership sits at barely 10%, the wealthy 1% garner more than 20% of the national income, and the unions themselves are more concerned with diversity, multiculturalism, and a liberal social agenda than they are fighting for the White men and women who once comprised their ranks.
Still, there are benefits to unions even in the modern era. Union members are three times more likely to have defined benefit retirement plans, and more likely overall to be offered any retirement plan. Union members have much better medical benefits and higher participation rates in those plans, union members have more paid sick leave, more life insurance coverage, and are even much more likely to continue being paid while on leave for jury duty.
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