Union Membership Plummets to Record Low Despite Biden’s Promises to Increase It

President Joe Biden addresses the North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU) Legislative Conference in Washington on April 6, 2022. Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

Rates of union membership fell to an all time low of 10.1 percent in 2022, according to a Thursday report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), despite President Joe Biden’s promise to bolster American unions.