Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Collective Bargaining But Were Afraid to Ask

by Michael Mauer Particularly for private sector workers, both the legal and political obstacles to forming a union have become quite formidable in recent years. As a result, unions increasingly seek to bypass the process set out in labor law for filing for an election with the appropriate government agency. Instead, the strategy is to go back to what workers did before the 1934 Wagner Act established a framework for union organizing, and to wage a purely political fight to achieve union recognition directly from the employer. These alternative paths to unionization usually include an effort to win the employer’s […]