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Graph titled 1948-2017: Worker productivity, compensation & union membership.

Union membership hit a high of around 30% around 1960 with a steady decline starting at 1970 down to around 5%.

Productivity linearly increasing the entire time ending at 250% increase.

Hourly compensation increased in lock step w/ productivity till the early 1970 and then mostly flattened off at around 100%.

Source: https://www.epi.org/publication/top-charts-2019/ and https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/

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