It is surprising if you haven’t been keeping up on the details (and not everyone can, obviously). The media, including social media, presented the last 4 years as being a revitalization of union power after like 40-50 years of decline.

The reality is while there has more discussion in the media about unions and what unions can do for workers, and support for unionizing has broadly seemingly been on a popular rise, this has not been translated into workers actually unionizing.

I know people will have a tendency to cope over this stuff, me included of course, and reason internally like “ah, well, gotta start somewhere” and “as younger generations begin working and move up to more experienced working positions, the workplaces might unionize!” Maybe. Maybe they will. Then again, maybe Trump gets a thinly veiled law (called “pro workers act for raising wages of unionizing bargaining workers who want wages bill act law”) passed to effectively make unionizing, collective bargaining, illegal. Which one right now seems more likely? Yeah…