Losses in union membership in the private sector have contributed to a dip in the overall rates of unionization across the city and state, while wages in that sector have stagnated, according to a report released on Labor Day by the City University of New York’s School of Labor and Urban Studies.
In New York City, 774,000 workers belonged to a union in 2018, or just over 21 percent of the workforce, according to the U.S. Current Population Survey. Nationally, 10.5 percent of workers across the country were union members.
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