union organizing
Forming worker coalitions
Union organizing is the process of workers collectively forming or joining a labor union to bargain with their employer.
It typically involves building support among coworkers, gathering signatures, and often holding a formal election: The company hired consultants to discourage union organizing.
The term covers both grassroots efforts and campaigns led by established unions seeking to expand membership.
- right-to-work lawsLaws banning mandatory union dues
- shop stewardsElected workplace union officials
- shop floorIndustrial production workspace
- collective bargainingJoint worker-employer talks
- worker solidarityMutual support among employees
labor movement · picketing · card check · secret ballot · salting · Taft-Hartley · strike vote · contract negotiation · workplace disputes · NLRB · protest songs · trade unions · unfair labor practices · worker empowerment · walkout · public demonstrations · vote · leaflet
- activismboycotts, activists, activist, advocate, demonstrating
- civic actioncivic engagement, grassroots movement, volunteering, petition drive, voter turnout
- labor historyAFL-CIO, workers, labor movement, CIO, laborers
- labor unionsAFL-CIO, local unions, police unions, Teamsters, locals
- unionslabor unions, local unions, organized labor, trade unionists, unionization
- faculty unionsfaculty unions, bargaining, salary negotiations, adjunct faculty, part-time faculty
union organizingunion busting
Disrupting worker organizing efforts
deunionization · decertification · at-will employment · right-to-work · every man for himself
union organizingtop-down management
Leadership from the hierarchy's apex