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Information about National Labor Organizations whose members total 100,000 or more.
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Organizations with Membership Over 100,000

Members Union1
2,731,419 National Education Associationof the United States2
1,505,100 Service Employees International Union3
1,459,511 American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees
1,396,174 International Brotherhood ofTeamsters3
1,311,548 United Food and Commercial Workers International Union
828,512 American Federation of Teachers
754,978 United Steelworkers of America
704,794 International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
669,772 Laborers' International Union of North America
653,781 International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
557,099 International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America
545,638 Communications Workers of America
522,416 United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America2
455,346 Union of Needletrades, Industrial, and Textile Employees
424,579 Longshore and Warehouse Union
392,584 International Union of Operating Engineers
361,362 Maritime Trades
324,043 United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe-Fitting Industry of the U.S. and Canada
292,221 National Association of Letter Carriers
286,700 American Postal Workers Union
271,463 International Association of Fire Fighters
269,204 National Postal Mail Handlers Union
245,011 Paper, Allied-Industrial, and Chemical International Union
226,975 American Federation of Government Employees
180,598 Amalgamated Transit Union
152,294 American Nurses Association2
148,806 Sheet Metal Workers International Association
127,278 International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades
125,437 International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental, and Reinforcing Iron Workers
125,398 Transport Workers Union of America
125,000 Building and Construction Trades
111,851 American Association of Classified School Employees2
105,460 The National Rural Letter Carriers' Association2
1. Unless otherwise noted, unions are AFL-CIO affiliated.
2. Not AFL-CIO affiliated.
3. Severed ties with the AFL-CIO in July 2005.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor.
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