The report revealed that U.S. union members have declined under the “right to work” state. American Trade Unions

Plus more and more divided America: union membership.

The U.S. states have increased new union members that protect union collective bargaining rights, while states with anti-union “right to work” laws are responsible for the decline in union members, which is new Report reveal.

The Illinois Institute of Economic Policy Report on unions and the Middle Class Renewal Program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign found that there were serious differences between 26 states in the U.S. compared with 24 states and Washington DC.

The coalition density of countries with right to work in the southern and central U.S. is 5.1%, while states with collective bargaining rights are 14.2%, focusing on the coast and the north.

Workers in the right-to-work countries have reduced wages by about 7%, which constitutes a local difference in the cost of living. According to AFL-CIO, the largest labor union in the United States Received The Average Employment Opportunity Commission charges a 36% discrimination fee.

Right to work law allows workers of union representatives to stop paying dues for the services and benefits they receive through union representatives, thus exhausting resources from the union. Public sector workers in all 50 states also impose legal laws through a 2018 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, with their collective bargaining rights Janus v. AFSCME.

In 2024, nearly 10,000 union members have increased in states that protect collective bargaining, while 200,000 union members have been lost in states with the right to work laws.

The report analyzes the impact of Illinois’s 2022 constitutional amendment that guarantees rights to collective bargaining and prohibiting the right to work laws. Illinois added 27,000 union members in 2024, increasing its unionization rate to 13.1%. The report notes that Illinois organized more union members from 2022 to 2024, while the 18,300 member group combined more than the previous seven years.

The report found that union members in Illinois are also 8.3% more likely to own a home and 5.2% more likely to own health insurance, while the likelihood of relying on government aid programs such as Medicaid and rushing for food aid benefits is 1-4 percentage points lower.

Similar results were found in Michigan abolition The state’s “right to work” law in 2023. From 2023 to 2024, nearly 15,000 union members were added in Michigan.

The report comes from Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and California Representative Brad Sherman Reintroduction The national Union Act rights last week, the bill was invalid, making the union able to organize workers weaker the right to work.

The report’s co-author Frank Manzo, an economist at the Illinois Institute for Economic Policy, noted that despite facing headwinds faced by labor unions in Janus’ decision, weak labor laws and labor laws and overwhelming opposition to employers’ unions, unions have lowered collective hotels in protecting collective states while those without those who don’t.

“It all happens when support for unions remains high and bipartisan, with one in 10 Americans approving unions, and millions of workers report that they will join unions and that they will organize the workplace if they can,” Manzo said. “The economy is doing better, the workers are doing better, and taxpayers do better when the state and federal governments allow and actually encourage workers to bargain collectively.”

“Organizing an alliance is very difficult and it is difficult to obtain the first contract. When the purpose of the law, politics and infrastructure is intentionally intended to resist and retain (if not entirely prevent) the collective voice, it is not surprising that one is unsurprising that, without a doubt, a certain dilution, reduces the density.

“The situation of the labor movement is not only related to the economic prosperity of workers, but also to democracy,” he added. “Attacking the coalition, attacking the labor movement, is a way to limit, limit and reduce social democracy.”