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US Workers Need Sectoral Bargaining Now More Than Ever
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 June 9, 2026 | UNION DENSITY | U.S. union membership and coverage rates have declined for decades, fueled in part by legal barriers to new organizing, including the limiting of collective bargaining to specific workplaces or employers and misclassifying certain groups of workers so they legally cannot unionize. Indeed, worksite-level bargaining enshrined in U.S. labor law is important, but it lacks a dedicated mechanism to build solidarity within broad economic industries, siloing organizing campaigns by employers or locations. U.S. labor advocates have suggested policy reforms to stymie this decline in union coverage, including the Protecting the Right to Organize Act… Continued at Equitable Growth
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