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A decade of declines in union membership slightly reversed in 2007. A new study from the University of California found that unionization rates in the United States increased by half a percentage point. 12.6 percent of workers in the U.S. are represented by a union. 2006 also saw an increase of one-tenth of a percentile. California, and specifically Los Angeles, can claim the most credit for the increase, California’s unionization rate in 2008 is 17.8 percent, up from 15.7 percent in 2006.