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BA Union, formed in 2022 at Bernheimer Architecture in New York, remains one of fewer than five unionized private-sector architecture firms in the United States.
Salting puts trained union organizers on a company's payroll by having them apply for real jobs at non-union workplaces. The NLRA has protected this organizing strategy since 1935.
In Malaysia, achieving official government recognition for a new trade union representing migrant workers takes between five and seven years, according to research from the Malaysian Trades Union Congress. The average guest worker visa in that country lasts two to three years.
The National Labor Relations Board requires signed authorization cards from at least 30% of workers in a proposed bargaining unit before it will schedule an election. That threshold appears in every organizing manual, on every union website, and in every introductory labor law course.
Federal courts have a straightforward rule for employers who show up without proper timekeeping records: the worker's word becomes the evidence.
Every worker in America has the right to report a safety violation, file a wage claim, or join a union. Every single one. But when immigration enforcement enters the workplace, those rights evaporate in practice, even if they still exist on paper.
Most American workers have powerful legal protections they've never heard of. I don't mean that in a vague, motivational-poster way.
