Despite COVID-19 Layoffs, Construction Union Membership Held Steady
Post date
February 05, 2021
Body
By Kim Slowey, Construction Dive
In its annual release on union membership, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the number of wage and salary construction workers with union membership declined from a little more than 1 million in 2019 to 993,000 in 2020.
The number of those represented by unions, including those under project labor agreements, was about 1.1 million in 2019 (13.6% of total workers) but decreased to just over 1 million in 2020.