Teamsters to Revise Annual Membership Filing to Labor Department

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters will submit a revised membership report to the US Department of Labor to correct an earlier version that considerably overstated membership gains in 2022, a union spokeswoman said.

The updated filing will show that the Teamsters gained just 3,200 members last year—a far cry from an initial report in March that claimed an increase of 206,000 members, or 20% growth. The error was unintentional, and stemmed from the use of an outdated mathematical formula, Teamsters spokeswoman Kara Deniz said.

Unions are required under federal law to release membership and financial information to the Labor Department ...