Union membership was at one-third of the private-sector workforce in the 1950s. What has happened to membership since?
A) Membership has increased in the private sector, but not in the public sector.
B) Membership has declined in the United States, but increased in all other industrialized countries.
C) Membership has dropped to less than ten percent in the private sector.
D) Membership has not grown, but has remained steady.
E) Membership has continued to grow in the public sector, but has remained steady in the private sector.
Answer: C
Explanation: One can't avoid looking at membership numbers either, and by that score, unions have been on the losing side of this contest for several decades. From a peak of more than one-third of the U.S. private-sector workforce in the 1950s, only 6.6 percent of private-sector workers now belong to unions.
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