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After unionization, corporate foot-dragging is a challenge to contract negotiation

John-Paul Ferguson
Published: 7 September 2022

Unionization is having a moment. Employees at Amazon, Starbucks and Apple have all held successful union drives. But forming a union and negotiating a contract are not the same thing. In a 2008 study, Desautels Prof. John-Paul Ferguson found that union election victories resulted in first contracts only 56.3 per cent of the time. ā€œIt’s even harder now,ā€ says Ferguson. ā€œEmployers are treating the union’s success in a National Labor Relations Board election as just as another setback.ā€ Companies appear to believe they will be able repeal it by refusing to negotiate a contract.

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