Unions Report Key Membership Gains in 2022, Filings Show (2)

[Editor’s note: On May 10 the International Brotherhood of Teamsters said the numbers initially filed to the US Labor Department were incorrect. The union added 3,200 members, not 206,000, in 2022. Read more here.]

Several large US unions saw double-digit growth in 2022 at the same time employers were weathering a tight labor market and a wave of worker dissatisfaction, according to a Bloomberg Law analysis of new federal filings from the previous calendar year.

Annual union disclosures to the US Department of Labor offer the most detailed look yet at how labor groups have flourished—and struggled—in the post-pandemic ...