1. A long slide stops
You’ll already know that unions have been on the slide for decades—today, total membership has fallen by more than half since its peak in 1979. Less familiar is, as the chart shows, how heavily concentrated on the young this collapse has been. Which sounds like even worse news. But look again at the last five years: the overall decline has plateaued, and you can just about see a modest up-tick among younger groups. Could a new kind of membership be emerging?