In January, our movement got its annual punch in the gut from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, whose 2021 report shows 241,000 fewer union members than the previous year. Just one in ten workers belongs to a union; in the private sector, it’s one in sixteen.

In twenty years, the country gained 14 million workers — but unions lost 2 million members.

Poll after poll shows majority support for unions; “Striketober” gripped headlines for weeks. And yet our numbers keep going down.