Since approximately mid-2021, unions have been aggressively seeking to reassert their relevance in the US workplace. Extensive media coverage of high-profile union organizing campaigns at Amazon, Apple, Starbucks, Trader Joe’s, and other well-known large companies has chronicled those efforts, but unions have been hard at work seeking to organize employees at employers of all sizes and in diverse industries and service sectors. These efforts have been undertaken at a time when union density – the percentage of the workforce represented by a labor union – is at a record low level. (Union density in 2022 in the private sector US workforce was 6.0 percent.) Data recently released by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) – the federal administrative agency that oversees the relationship between employees, employers, and unions – as well as data from a Bloomberg Law analysis, show the extent of those efforts and their impact on union membership.
The NLRB reported that in the first six months of its 2023 fiscal year (from October 1, 2022 until March 31, 2023), unions filed 1,200 petitions seeking to represent employees, which was slightly more (by a few dozen) than the number of petitions filed in the preceding six month period, which previously had been notable for its dramatic increase over prior periods. Along with an increase in unfair labor practice charges filed during the first six months of fiscal year 2023, the NLRB’s case load increased 14% over the same period in...
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