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*Title: ** *Union Membership and the Income Share of the Top Ten Percent
*Source:* Economic Policy Institute
*Author: *Colin Gordon
*Date: * Oct 7, 2013
*Abstract:* In a previous post and economic snapshot, I and others noted the historical symmetry of the rise and fall of union density across the last century and its uncanny mirror image—the fall and rise of the share of income going to the top ten percent. The juxtaposition of the two lines suggests less a direct causal relationship than an emblematic one—between the trajectory of the workers’ bargaining power on the one hand, and trajectory of rent-padded top incomes on the other.
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