unionizations
Forming worker collectives
Unionizations are instances of workers organizing into labor unions.
The plural typically refers to multiple organizing efforts across different workplaces or industries: The wave of unionizations swept through the tech sector.
The word emphasizes the process or event of forming a union rather than union membership itself.
Systematically putting in order
- collective bargainingJoint worker-employer talks
- workersPeople doing jobs
- campaignsOrganized efforts toward goals
- drivesMoves or compels
membership · solidarity · strikes · negotiations · picket lines · shop stewards · elections · certifications
Craftsmen's mutual aid societies
- industrial revolutionRapid economic mechanization period
- labor movementOrganized effort for worker rights
- HaymarketPlace selling animal fodder
- AFL-CIOCombined federation of unions
Solidarity · miners · dockworkers · autoworkers · textile workers · coal strikes · sit-downs · New Deal
Federal collective bargaining regulator
- unfair labor practicesIllegal workplace conduct against workers
- recognitionPerceiving something as known
- decertificationRevoking official recognition
- arbitrationNon-court binding dispute resolution
injunctions · retaliation · good faith · impasse · lockouts · cooling-off periods · mediation · jurisdiction
Organizing and directing resources
- consultantsExperts hired for guidance
- intimidationDeliberate fear-inducing pressure
- firingsTerminations of employment
- delaysPauses before proceeding
propaganda · decertification · Pinkerton · strikebreakers · scabs · outsourcing · closures · relocations
Those who instruct students
- nursesMedical care professionals
- service workersEmployees serving the public
- hospitalityGenerous treatment of guests
- retailSales to end users
warehouse · gig workers · adjuncts · graduate students · journalists · Amazon · Starbucks · manufacturing
organizing
Systematically putting in order
- collective bargainingJoint worker-employer talks
- workersPeople doing jobs
- campaignsOrganized efforts toward goals
drives · membership · solidarity · strikes · negotiations · picket lines · shop stewards · elections · certifications · representation
guilds
Craftsmen's mutual aid societies
- industrial revolutionRapid economic mechanization period
- labor movementOrganized effort for worker rights
- HaymarketPlace selling animal fodder
AFL-CIO · Solidarity · miners · dockworkers · autoworkers · textile workers · coal strikes · sit-downs · New Deal · Taft-Hartley
NLRB
Federal collective bargaining regulator
- unfair labor practicesIllegal workplace conduct against workers
- recognitionPerceiving something as known
- decertificationRevoking official recognition
arbitration · injunctions · retaliation · good faith · impasse · lockouts · cooling-off periods · mediation · jurisdiction · exclusivity
management
Organizing and directing resources
- consultantsExperts hired for guidance
- intimidationDeliberate fear-inducing pressure
- firingsTerminations of employment
delays · propaganda · decertification · Pinkerton · strikebreakers · scabs · outsourcing · closures · relocations · surveillance
teachers
Those who instruct students
- nursesMedical care professionals
- service workersEmployees serving the public
- hospitalityGenerous treatment of guests
retail · warehouse · gig workers · adjuncts · graduate students · journalists · Amazon · Starbucks · manufacturing · transportation
unionizationsdecertifications
Withdrawals of official recognition
right-to-work · at-will employment · union busting · disorganization · free agency
unionizationsdecertifications
Withdrawals of official recognition
dissolutions · disbandments · fragmentations · dispersals · atomizations