Published: May 30, 2019
As the climate strikes have shown, the younger generation is ready to take collective action in the face of a crisis
from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2MjdRD8
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Union membership in recent decades has been in stark decline. The picture has been particularly bleak over the past 20 years when it comes to young people.
Fewer than one in 10 workers under the age of 24 are now in a union, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics released on Thursday. The proportion of unionised 16- to 19-year-old workers has halved since 1995, from 6.4% to 3.2%, with a similar pattern among 20- to 24-year-olds.
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