Union membership rate among Utah workers is 5th lowest nationally

Utahns don’t exactly look for the union label when choosing their jobs. The Beehive State now has the fifth lowest union membership in the nation.Only 4.4% of Utah workers — 62,000 out of 1.4 million — belong to a union, according to 2019 data released Wednesday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. That is less than half the national average of 10.3%.The only states with lower rates than Utah were South Carolina at 2.2%, North Carolina at 2.3% and Texas and Virginia at 4.0%.