'We will figure out how to fire you'

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), union membership fell to 10.1 percent in the United States in 2022 — a decrease from 10.3 percent in 2021. This is quite a contrast to 1950, when 34.6 percent of U.S. workers, according to the Economic Policy Institute, belonged to a union.
In 1950, one in three Americans was unionized; in 2022, it was roughly one in ten. And that 2022 number falls even lower when public-sector workers are excluded; among private-sector workers, according to the BLS, the U.S. had only a 6 percent unionization rate in 2022.
Yet employees of some major corporations, including Starbucks, Apple Stores, Chipotle and Trader Joe’s, have been trying to unionize. And according to The Guardian’s Michael Sainato, some of them fear retaliation from management.
'We will figure out how to fire you': Report shows how major corporations are fighting unionization.