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Union membership increases for fourth year in row - but fewer than one-in-10 low-paid workers are members

[IMG][/IMG] After four-decades of decline, 2020 was the fourth year in a row in which trade union membership among employees in the UK increased - with membership up 120,000 on the year before - according to Resolution Foundation analysis of new statistics published 0n 27 May 2021 by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. The Foundation notes that union membership among employees increased from 6.2 million to 6.6 million between 2016 and 2020 - a significant rise but still just half the peak membership of 13.2 million in 1979. [Read Full Article]