The U.S. Department of Labor says union membership grew last year under the Biden administration. The news comes as an Arizona coalition tries to gather enough signatures to ask voters to repeal state laws they call anti-union.
U.S. Labor officials counted 139,000 more union members nationwide in 2023 than in the year before.
Union membership in Arizona is consistently below the national average.
The National Federation of Independent Businesses says Arizona has been a "right-to-work" state for nearly 80 years.
"Right-to-work" generally means that employers can’t force employees to become union members.
A coalition called Arizona Works Together aims to repeal state laws the group calls anti-union.
They face a July 4 deadline to submit roughly 384,000 signatures needed to put a constitutional amendment on the November ballot.
