How Unions Are Organized and Certified
Many of the laws described previously address the issue of union certification. Figure AIV.3 illustrates a simplified version of this process. First, there must be some interest among workers in having a union. Sometimes this interest comes from dissatisfied employees; sometimes it is stirred by professional organizers sent by unions themselves. For example, the United Auto Workers has for years dispatched organizers to promote interest among workers at the Honda plant in Marysville, Ohio. To date, they have had no success in Marysville or in Smyrna, Tennessee, where Nissan built its major U.S. plant. The process unfolds as follows:
Defining the bargaining unit. Interested organizers start by asking the ...
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