Unions’ share of California construction jobs at record low

Unions are losing their clout in California’s construction industry.
My trusty spreadsheet, filled with numbers from UnionStats.com that track federal labor movement data back to 1983, found 129,800 unionized construction workers across the state last year — the lowest since 2014.
Union membership in the building trades is down 21% in a year and off 29% from 2019, the year before the pandemic upended the economy.
Contrast that shrinkage to growing non-union staffing at construction s