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The following chart illustrates this inverse relationship between union coverage and top income shares.
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Private sector union coverage has been halved since 1970: from 32 percent to 15 percent. Meanwhile, the top 1 percent’s share of national income has almost doubled in the same period: from 8 to 14 percent. This unmistakably demonstrates that the reduced capacity of workers in Canada to use collective bargaining to wrest a greater share of income from private sector employers has translated into a rising share of income for the richest Canadians.