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It is Jobs Friday.

The monthly Jobs report tells us that 528,000 jobs were added to the US economy in July.

That's a lot more than expected.

And unemployment at 3.5% is at a 53 year low.

And that got us thinking at the indicator, is this Jobs growth that is still going on

contributing to a labour market story that we've been seeing a lot in the news recently?

What seems to be a turning point of union activity bouncing back from decades of decline?

This is the indicator from Platinum Money I'm Darien Woods.

In the 1950s, about a third of workers belonged to a union.

That is declined a lot over the decades, continuing through 2021 with only one in 10 workers

now belonging to a union.

But if you read the headlines today, you would think that every Starbucks barista and their

dog were getting unionized.

This is a puzzle we just had to solve, coming up after the break.

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