The U.S. ranks 27th in union membership

According to the OECD, 12% of American workers were union members in 2004, which made the United States rank twenty-seventh out of thirty OECD member nations. Sweden ranked first, with 77.3% of workers as union members.

The U.S. ranks 3rd in workers

According to the World Resources Institute, in 2004 the United States had a labor force of 151,475,000 people, which made the United States rank third in that category. China ranked first, with a labor force of 792,611,000 people.