{"id":3498,"date":"2023-02-28T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniontrack.com\/blog\/?p=3498"},"modified":"2023-06-27T16:44:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T16:44:56","slug":"americans-unions-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniontrack.com\/blog\/americans-unions-support","title":{"rendered":"Americans Want to Hear From Unions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ken Green
CEO & Founder
UnionTrack<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Union victories in recent years have increased the general public\u2019s support of unions and the greater labor movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They\u2019ve also increased the public\u2019s desire to learn more about their own rights in the workplace. Now, more than ever, people are actively seeking information about what unions do and what it means to form or join one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, as our latest survey on union sentiment in the U.S. shows, people prefer to get that information directly from the source \u2014 from the unions themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This means unions have very receptive audiences with whom they need to be engaging in conversations and spreading pro-union messaging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Louder Voice Can Lead to Membership Increases<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The great juxtaposition of the modern labor movement is that public support for unions is at its highest point in decades (71 percent, according to Gallup<\/a>), but the percentage of people who are union members has dipped ever so slightly (from 10.3 percent to 10.1 percent in 2022, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet a June 2022 CNBC survey shows that 59 percent of workers across the U.S. in all sectors say they support increased unionization in their own workplaces, writes CNBC editor Eric Rosenbaum<\/a>. If there is so much support for unions and increasing unionization in workplaces, why is the union density rate dropping?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Economic Policy Institute (EPI)<\/a> explains that intense union-busting campaigns and weak labor laws are two of the major obstacles to unionizing. But there\u2019s more to the story. Other hurdles include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n