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Captive audience meetings are deployed in roughly 89% of union organizing campaigns in the United States, and the data shows they cut union election win rates from 73% to 47%.
Amazon warehouse workers at the JFK8 fulfillment center on Staten Island filed their first unfair labor practice charge months before the April 2022 election that made them famous.
U.S. employers spent an estimated $1.7 billion in 2025 hiring consultants and attorneys to oppose union organizing efforts, according to a study released Tuesday by union-busting watchdog LaborLab and the Economic Policy Institute, even as union membership climbed to 16.5 million workers—the highest
The biggest failure in organizer training is teaching people to solve problems before they understand them.
Salting, the practice of trained union organizers taking jobs at non-union workplaces to build support from the inside, drove the first successful Starbucks organizing campaign in decades.
United Automobile Workers Local 4811 added 12,000 University of California employees to its membership rolls, according to The Daily Californian, bringing the union's total membership to 60,000 across all UC campuses. The expansion incorporates Student Services and Advising Professionals and Researc
Anti-union law firms, third-party persuader consultants, and employer-run internal campaigns form the three pillars of a $1.7 billion annual industry dedicated to stopping workers from organizing.
Architectural Workers United announced its affiliation with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers in 2021, then set a goal no design-profession campaign had attempted: organizing enough private-sector architecture offices to form a self-sustaining local lodge with shared
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.
Thirty-one percent. That's the win rate for private-sector union elections in the United States, according to the Economic Policy Institute, after workers endure the full weight of employer anti-union campaigns. The number is grim, but it hides something important.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes wage data broken down by occupation, metropolitan area, and industry across roughly 800 occupational profiles updated annually, all free to download.
Campaigns that file for an NLRB election with 60–70% worker support win 78% of the time. Campaigns built primarily on walk-in interest at a union hall rarely come close to that success rate.
