Trade Union Membership 2019

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy is responsible for publishing the National Statistics on trade union membership. The statistics are published on an annual basis.

An annual question on trade union membership was introduced into the Labour Force Survey (LFS) in 1989 and it has been asked in the fourth quarter (Q4) every year since 1992. Questions on trade union presence were added in 1993, and the question on collective agreements between an employer and a trade union was introduced in 1996. The LFS trade union questions have United Kingdom coverage from 1995 onwards. The publication primarily produces UK statistics for the period 1995 to 2019, with some headline Great Britain statistics going back to 1989.

The bulletin primarily reports statistics on trade union membership among employees estimated from the Labour Force Survey (LFS).