Are Unions Making a Comeback?

<p>The United States is seeing a revival in union membership.</p><p>In the last six months, the National Labor Relations Board has recorded a 60 percent increase in workers filing for petitions that allow for union elections to take place.</p><p>The circumstances that have prompted these unionization efforts have some similarities with the period that brought the largest gain in union membership in U.S. history, during the 1930s.</p><p>What can that era tell us about today, and are current efforts just a blip?</p><p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/noam-scheiber?smid=pc-thedaily">Noam Scheiber</a>, a reporter covering workers and the workplace for The New York Times.</p><p>Want more from The Daily? For one big idea on the news each week from our team, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/the-daily?module=inline">subscribe to our newsletter</a>. </p><p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>Since the Great Recession, the college-educated have taken more frontline jobs at companies like Starbucks and Amazon. Now <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/28/business/college-workers-starbucks-amazon-unions.html?smid=pc-thedaily">they’re helping to unionize them</a>.</li></ul><p>For more information on today’s episode, visit </p><p><a href="http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily">nytimes.com/thedaily</a></p><p>. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.</p>