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Below is a list of unions affiliated with the AFL–CIO. Since the founding of the AFL in 1886, the AFL–CIO and its predecessor bodies have been the dominant labor federation (at least in terms of the number of member workers, if not influence) in the United States. As of 2014, the labor federation had approximately 12.7 million members.

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics most recent survey indicates that union membership in the US has risen to 12.4% of all workers, from 12.1% in 2007. For a short period, private sector union membership rebounded, increasing from 7.5% in 2007 to 7.6% in 2008. [2] However, that trend has since reversed.

The Atomic Trades and Labor Council (ATLC) is a labor union umbrella organization, affiliated with the Metal Trades Department of the AFL–CIO, that serves as the bargaining unit representing about 2,100 workers employed by U.S. Department of Energy contractors at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak ...

The workers voted 2,654 to 2,131 in favor of joining the Amazon Labor Union. The Amazon Labor Union was founded by Christian Smalls, a former Amazon employee at the warehouse who helped organize a walkout over safety concerns during an early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and was subsequently fired by Amazon.

The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions of the United States and Canada ( FOTLU) was a federation of labor unions created on November 15, 1881, at Turner Hall in Pittsburgh. [1] It changed its name to the American Federation of Labor (AFL) on December 8, 1886.