Unions
What a shop steward does and when to call one
The steward is the contract's first responder on the shop floor — here is the job, and the moments that call for it.
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Unions
Unions covers the labor movement itself: organizing drives, election petitions, bargaining tables, strike deadlines and union governance filings. Reporting follows a campaign from card drive to first contract, with the numbers and the filings behind each step.
Organizing drives, representation elections, contract bargaining, strikes and the internal governance of unions, from locals to internationals.
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How union contracts are negotiated, clause by clause
A bargaining cycle runs from member demands through committee talks to a ratification vote. Here is what happens at each step.
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Duty to bargain: what good faith actually requires
Both sides at the table carry a legal obligation. Here is what it demands, what it does not, and how the labor board decides it was broken.
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Union Decertification: How Workers Vote Out Representation
A 30% petition, a narrow filing window, and a majority vote — the legal path off a union contract, mapped against the rules that govern it.
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When the labor board rewrites its own rules
Section 6 lets the NLRB legislate through the Federal Register, a channel used rarely and contested every time.
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9.9 percent: what the union membership numbers hide
Membership eased to 9.9 percent in 2024 even as election wins surged, and the gap between flow and stock explains it.