“We’re seeing a reinvigoration in organizing across California, including in healthcare, online media, technology and entertainment,” said Steve Smith, a spokesman for the California Labor Federation, an umbrella group for 1,200 unions. Even as California labor notched gains, the number of U.S. workers represented by unions stagnated. A June 2018 U.S. Supreme Court decision, Janus v. AFSCME, had been widely predicted as likely to weaken public-sector union membership. Among full-time wage and salary workers, union members had median weekly earnings of $1,095 in 2019, while nonunion members had median weekly earnings of $892. The BLS data cover both union membership (6.2%) and workers who are represented by unions (7.1%) but not always members.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 23, 2020 13:52 UTC