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What Professions Cannot Unionize?

Unionization refers to coming together for empowerment and progress. In work culture, it typically refers to a body (usually known as a ‘labor union’) where workers from the same industry organize to collectively negotiate with their employers for better working conditions, wages, benefits, and other employment-related matters. Recent
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What Is the Union Rule of Representation?

Picture this: you’re at work and are handed a card that you’re asked to sign. All you know is that it has to do with a union, but what does signing a union card mean? This card is how you support the union at your workplace. It’s granting the organization consent to represent you in […]
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What Does Signing a Union Card Mean?

When you sign a union card at work, you’re agreeing to become a member of a union, to abide by its rules, and to allow the organization to represent you in negotiations with your employer. You’re also agreeing to pay union membership dues.  In return, you gain voting rights for in-person and online union elections, […]
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What Are Union Election Petitions?

Labor unions play a crucial role in many workplaces and the benefits they bring should not be discounted. When your coworkers are looking to join an existing union or to form their own, there are many things to consider, such as an online union voting system, how representation works, and what the process of becoming […]
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What Are the Effects of Unionization?

Perhaps your colleagues are discussing unionizing and looking for ways to file for a union election, or maybe you’re hearing about petitions and support cards, but you aren’t sure what establishing a union means or what it can do for employees.  Starting and maintaining an active, engaged union is easier now than ever before. Wit
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Union Voting Election Rules

Updated: February 11th, 2025 Union voting election rules are the guidelines that govern how labor unions conduct elections, ensuring a fair and democratic process for members. These rules outline voter eligibility, election procedures, and the methods used to collect votes, including traditional ballots and online union votes. Under these
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Police Federation Election Guidelines: All You Need to Know

Elections play an essential role in maintaining integrity and democracy within all organizations, ensuring that leaders are elected through a transparent and fair process. Elections within the police federations are no different.  With the responsibility of representing the interests of police staff across the country, the police’s
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Plumbers’ Union Election Process

Union voting is essential to making sure everyone at your company is on board with how your representative bargains for the group of employees. It’s also important to determine who will represent you.  This is especially true for plumbers’ unions that represent other workers in addition to plumbers, such as pipefitters. The elect
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How to File for a Union Election

If your business is forming a union, you may be wondering how to file for a union election. The process can be time-consuming, often taking over a year before your union is fully established and members notice the effects of unionization. Businesses and corporations that resist workers organizing for their rights impose many barriers to [
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How Hard Is It to Unionize?

Media outlets are reporting that the United States is facing another ‘union boom,’ where unions are forming rapidly and workers are organizing for their rights. However, the reality is, the average time it takes for employers and new union workers to finalize their first collective bargaining agreement is 465 days. Additionally, there
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Carpenters’ Union Voting Guide

Joining a union for carpenters comes with some major advantages, including higher pay, better fringe benefits, and better working conditions. All of these would not be possible without union voting.  In most cases, any employee can form a union–even workers at a small business can unionize. Unions aren’t reserved for employees at
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Can Workers at a Small Business Unionize?

Who can and cannot start a union can feel like murky waters–the truth is, most professions will allow you to start a union. In fact, even the ones that don’t allow for unions are trying to change that as well (football players and reality TV cast members, for example). So, what professions cannot unionize? If […]
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Understanding Asian Olympic Games Results

COVID-19 hit more than just local industries–it also shut down the Asian Games, the biggest competition in Asia.  Now that things are back on track with the Hangzhou 2023 Asian Olympic Games coming soon, you might want to know whether your favorite athletes will get that gold, silver, or bronze medal! Factors Influencing Asian Olym
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Asian Olympic Medal Standings: From Japan’s Streak to China’s Rise

Most Asian countries, such as China, were absent from the Olympics for most of the 20th century–but they began contesting the stage in the 1980s, with China beginning its rise by taking part in its first Summer Olympics in 1984.  While the 1984 Olympic Games results took people by surprise, it was fifteen years before […]
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