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Economic Policy InstituteThe number of workers represented by a union held steady in 2019, while union membership fellNew data on unionization from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that in 2019, 16.4 million workers in the U.S. were represented by a union.1 There was very little change in this figure from 2018 (+3,000). However, because employment of wage and salary workers grew at a faster rate than the number of workers represented by…