At their peak in 1954, labor organizations represented 34.8 percent of employees. Now, fewer than 11 percent of employees are union members, with private sector membership at near all-time lows of 6.3 percent. As the workforce grows, unions represent an ever-smaller share.

Read the full report by Trey Kovacs, a RWP Labor Senior Campaign Consultant.

The proposed $50,000 and $100,000 penalties on employers will lose revenue to the Treasury rather than increase revenue. This is because employers will become less productive, or move offshore, or hire fewer workers, or have lower profits to be taxed–or some combination of the above. The loss in Federal, State, and Social Security tax revenue outweighs the gain from the penalties.

Read the full paper by Diana Furchtgott-Roth here.

The House on Tuesday passed the PRO Act, which would provide new protections to workers seeking to unionize and could make it more difficult for gig companies like Uber to continue classifying their drivers as independent contractors.

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People closest to Vermont senator Bernie Sanders have stated that Sanders holds an interest in becoming Labor Secretary should Joe Biden win his bid for President. Sanders, a former presidential hopeful, has declined to confirm or deny those statements, saying that he is “focused on seeing that Biden is elected president.”

Since pulling out of the presidential race, Sanders has given Biden his full support and has been able to influence policy and push for more “progressive voices” in Biden’s potential new administration.

Senator Biden has also had a lengthy career of calling for laws to raise the minimum wage and make it easier for workers to organize and, as a result, has won support from many unions.

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Despite many of the national unions announcing their support for presidential candidate Joe Biden, rank-and-file union members in swing states support President Donald Trump, according to local labor leaders in key Midwestern states.

Large unions who have officially endorsed Biden include the National Education Association, the Service Employees International Union, and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Trump’s union member support comes primarily from building trades unions in blue-collar, Rust Belt states like Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

“We haven’t moved the needle here,” Ohio State Building and Construction Trades Council Executive Secretary-Treasurer Mike Knisley noted.

Chuck Knisell, an international vice president of United Mine Workers of America District 2, stated of union members’ support for Trump, “The biggest argument that I have from our membership is that this isn’t a blue-collar, working-class Democratic Party that my dad or mom was in. It’s morphed into something different.”

Read more about it here.