November 15, 2020, NBC News: “‘Joe’s a blue-collar guy’: After years of declining power, union leaders look to Biden”
February 3, 2021, Axios: “The pandemic-era union renaissance”
March 9, 2021, The Nation: “Now Is the Time to Restore the Power of Labor”
October 8, 2021, The New Republic: “America Is in the Midst of a Dramatic Labor Resurgence”
November 10, 2021, The New Republic: “Anti-Union Consultants Are Baffled by Labor’s Comeback”
December 11, 2021, Washington Post: “The worker revolt comes to a Dollar General in Connecticut: A call to a union triggers one of the most lopsided battles of the ongoing low-wage-worker revolt”
March 4, 2022, Washington Post: “More Starbucks stores want to unionize. These women and nonbinary workers are leading the push”
April 2, 2022, Bloomberg: “Amazon Warehouse Workers Just Redefined What’s Possible for U.S. Labor: The new Amazon Labor Union is a ways from a contract, but could still signal a new wave of organizing efforts at companies that have long repelled them”
April 2, 2022, Washington Post: “Worker-led win at Amazon warehouse could provide new labor playbook”
April 4, 2022, The Atlantic: “Is Organized Labor Making a Comeback?”
April 4, 2022, The Conversation: “Amazon, Starbucks and the sparking of a new American union movement”
April 4, 2022, The Verge: “Amazon union workers won in New York — can they win across the country?”
April 6, 2022, New York Times: “Does the Amazon Union Win Portend a Comeback for Organized Labor?”
April 26, 2022, Fortune: “Unions are making their biggest comeback since the ’60s. Here’s how workers are winning, according to 2 longtime labor organizers”
May 1, 2022, NPR: “Starbucks workers drive nationwide surge in union organizing”
May 2, 2022, New York Times’ The Daily podcast: “Are Unions Making a Comeback? What the explosion of union membership during the 1930s can tell us about today’s revival”
May 10, 2022, The New Republic: “Target Workers Are Joining the Union Wave”
June 30, 2022, NPR: “The barista uprising: Coffee shop workers ignite a union renewal”
August 31, 2022, NPR: “Support for labor unions in the U.S. is at a 57-year high”
September 5, 2022, White House CEA blog: “Organized labor appears to be having a moment. After decades of erosion in the private sector, U.S. workers are organizing at a pace not seen in many years.”
October 7, 2022, The Nation: “For Undergrads, the Best Extracurricular Is a Labor Union: With approval of organized labor at the highest level since 1965, undergraduate student workers have turned to unionizing as college costs continue to rise”
December 9, 2022, NPR: “Starbucks union organizing gave labor a jolt of energy in 2022”
December 27, 2022, New York Times’ The Daily podcast: “How Two Friends Beat Amazon and Built a Union: An Update”
January 3, 2023, New York Times: “Video Game Workers Get a Union Foothold at Microsoft: The outcome, involving about 300 employees, is one of organized labor’s biggest victories at a major U.S. tech company”
January 5, 2023, NPR: “The rise of video game unions”
Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics:
The union membership rate — the percent of wage and salary workers who were members of unions — was 10.1 percent in 2022, down from 10.3 percent in 2021. . . . The number of wage and salary workers belonging to unions, at 14.3 million in 2022, increased by 273,000, or 1.9 percent, from 2021. However, the total number of wage and salary workers grew by 5.3 million (mostly among nonunion workers), or 3.9 percent. This disproportionately large increase in the number of total wage and salary employment compared with the increase in the number of union members led to a decrease in the union membership rate. The 2022 unionization rate (10.1 percent) is the lowest on record.