Union Organizing Efforts Rise in First Half of Year

By David Harrison and Heather Haddon

July 12, 2022 7:03 am ET

The quantity of U.S. workplaces the place staff have began making an attempt to arrange unions jumped this yr to the best degree in half a dozen years, an increase that displays warming public attitudes towards unions amid a strong labor market.

In the primary half of the yr, employees at 1,411 U.S. workplaces filed petitions with the National Labor Relations Board, step one in becoming a member of a union, based on a Wall Street Journal evaluation of federal knowledge. That represents a 69% improve from the identical interval in 2021 and probably the most of any yr since 2015.