Organized Labor’s Democratic Deficit - American Compass

Organized Labor’s Democratic Deficit - American Compass

Introduction The decades-long decline of the American labor movement is neither news nor something conservatives should welcome. Fewer than 6% of workers in the private sector were members of a union in 2024; long gone are the days of the mid-twentieth century when unions represented a third of all workers.1 The dearth of meaningful representation has not served workers well, a strong majority of whom feel disempowered and voiceless in the workp…