Union membership shows long-run decline despite renewed organizing efforts

Evidence

Midway through the 2020s, membership in secular organizations continues to decline. In Germany, for instance, the main trade union federation represented nearly 12 million workers in 1991; thirty years later, that figure had shriveled to just 5.7 million. Although public support for unions has risen in the United States, the unionization rate reached a historic low of 10.1 percent in 2021, following a brief uptick during the pandemic. In the early 1980s it still hovered around 20 percent—a sign that the renewed organizing efforts of the 2010s have not kept pace with the growth of the labor force. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 101

Categorization

• QUESTION: These specific figures (German union federation 12M→5.7M, US rate 20%→10.1%) are exactly the periodization anchors the reader wants to reproduce precisely.
• XREF: connects to: US unionization dropped from 28 percent of workers to 11 percent since 1955 — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 35; Union decline concentrates income at the top — Ken-Hou Lin & Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, Financialization and U.S. Income…, 137