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Public-Sector Unions Face Steep Membership Declines | https://t.co/5gx8VVq7xD

— Charles Bayless (@CharlesBayless) January 30, 2022

From the article. 

Buffeted by Covid-induced economic lockdowns and a Supreme Court ruling that lets government workers decline to join or pay a fee to a union, membership in government labor groups plunged last year. Continuing a trend that began after the 2008–2009 recession, public-sector unions lost 191,000 members in 2021, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. The number of government workers enrolled in a union has now fallen below 7 million for the first time since 1998, and 33.9 percent of all government workers are now unionized, down from a high of 38.7 percent in 1994.

A nearly 3% decline in one year.