*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and Human resource management* Title: *Who wants to join a union? A growing number of Americans*

*Source:* The Conversation

*Date: * Sept 4, 2018

*Summary:* Only 10.7 percent https://www.bls.gov/webapps/legacy/cpslutab3.htm of American workers belong to a union today, approximately half as many as in 1983. That’s a level not seen since the 1930s, just before passage of the labor law that was supposed to protect workers’ right to organize https://www.nlrb.gov/resources/national-labor-relations-act-nlra. Yet American workers have not given up on unions. When we conducted https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xjA-7UkAAAAJ&hl=en a nationally representative survey of the workforce http://gcgj.mit.edu/new-paper-worker-voice-appear-ilr-review with the National Opinion Research Corporation http://www.norc.org/Pages/default.aspx, we found interest https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QfH1gOcAAAAJ&hl=en in joining unions to be at a four-decade high. Link: http://bit.ly/2wKtAA2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Eugene McElroy, Library Associate James Carey Library, School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick NJ 08901 848-932-9513 smlrlibrary@work.rutgers.edu http://smlr.rutgers.edu/carey-library