Lots of talk of unions tonight. Fifty-seven percent of Americans — including 74 percent of Democrats — say that the large reduction in the percent of workers who are represented by unions over the past several decades has been bad for the country, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in September 2019. In January, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the rate of union membership is down to 10.3 percent, about half of what it was in 1983, the first year for which comparable data was available.