By Richard Horgan Los Angeles (Knewz) — During the past few decades, the share of U.S. workers who belong to a union has been chopped in half, from 20 percent in 1983 to 10.3 percent in 2021. In the shadow of this decline, buttressed in recent years by the gig economy and loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs to globalization, Americans are expressing a dim view of the trend. Per the latest Pew Research Centre “American Trends” poll about the topic, 58 percent of Americans feel the loss of union jobs in the U.S. has been “somewhat” or “very bad” for the country. On the Democratic voter side in the s…