For decades, organized labor has been in decline. Despite periodic headlines suggesting a resurgence, unionization in the United States continues to fall. In 2025, just 10% of American workers ...

Today, the U.S. labor movement is a shadow of its former self. Union membership has declined dramatically since labor’s heyday in the 1950s, when roughly a third of the U.S. workforce was unionized.

Labor unions have a long history in the United States of advocating for workers’ rights. But in recent years, some unions, particularly those representing graduate students, have drifted away from ...