What Is A Union Contract?

What Is A Union Contract

Like all union members, Local One members are protected by their collective bargaining agreement. It is a legally binding contract between the workers and the employer.

The union contract guarantees wages, benefits and working conditions. It is negotiated and agreed to by the union workers and management. The length of each union contract is most always several years, with three or four years being the most common.

When the contract is near expiration, negotiations begin on a new agreement.

Union members in the bargaining unit have final say on the terms of the contract. They appoint a bargaining committee of co-workers. Professional negotiators employed by Local One work with the bargaining committee.

Before formal negotiations begin, members have full opportunity to voice their desires about the terms of the contract.

It takes a simple majority of bargaining unit members to ratify a contract. It takes a two-thirds vote to authorize a strike.

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