Union membership dropped in Virginia last year, per recently released data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The big picture: In 2022, 10.1% of U.S. workers were unionized, down from 10.3% in 2021 and a high of 20.1% in 1983, the first year the BLS reported comparable figures, Axios' Nathan Bomey reports.
Zoom in: The share of Virginia workers represented by a union dropped by two percentage points last year, from 6.5% to 4.5%.
Total union membership in the state also declined, from 176,000 in 2021 to 146,000 in 2022.