
It fell to 10.3% in 2021. The small scale efforts at places like Starbucks are tiny compared to the entire labor force. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/union2.pdf Wages are not matching inflation. Over the last three months nominal wages and salaries for all civilian workers slowed slightly but still rose at a fast 4.4 percent annual rate, according to the newly released Employment Cost Index (ECI) data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).,
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