U.S. Workers Show Growing Interest in Unions

Worker interest in unions is at record levels, but just one in ten are current members.   Almost 50 million people from Maryland and across the country say they would join a union, but federal labor regulations keep them from it, according to the Economic Policy Institute.  Heidi Shierholz with the institute says tripling the number of union members would help with increasing affordability concerns…

“Almost every conversation about affordability focuses entirely on prices, as if the only way to make life more affordable is to make things cheaper. But affordability depends on both prices and pay.”