Chart: Recent RTW-adopting states have seen large decline in union membership: Percentage point change in share of workers who are members of a union between 2010 and 2023 | Economic Policy Institute

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Recent RTW-adopting states have seen large decline in union membership: Percentage point change in share of workers who are members of a union between 2010 and 2023

	Change in membership, 2010–2023
Pre-2010 RTW	-0.8
Post-2010 RTW	-3.8
Non-RTW	-2.0
New Hampshire	-0.9

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Source: EPI analysis of Economic Policy Institute. 2023. Current Population Survey Extracts, Version 1.0.38, https://microdata.epi.org.

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