ANALYSIS: Workers Spent 2023 Unionizing—and Striking—in Droves

Two new statistical analyses of Bloomberg Law data show that workers are engaging in organizing and picketing activity at a magnitude that hasn’t been seen in the US labor market in years.

Unions organized almost 100,000 workers in National Labor Relations Board representation elections in 2023, according to Bloomberg Law’s semiannual report on NLRB election statistics. The total of 99,116 newly organized workers is the largest single-year cohort since 2000, and the fourth largest since at least 1990.

This is the first time since at least 1990 that unions have managed to increase their NLRB organizing headcount for three ...