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https://www.epi.org/publication/union-membership-data/
Overall, it shows union rates being mostly a wash in 2023, but that's due to a large increase in total jobs that year; raw number of members went up, rate slightly declined. Black workers made up almost the entire grid increase.
The point that maybe relates most to what OP was saying: