union contract

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Even in right-to-work states, workers who opt out of union membership are still bound by the union contract and barred from negotiating on their own behalf.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025

Earlier this year, Unite Here Local 11 attempted to negotiate terms that would require any new owner to honor workers’ existing union contract.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2025

They are voting on Friday on whether to authorize a strike, days before union contract negotiations for workers are set to resume.

From BBC • Jul. 19, 2024

Last week, the paper’s management approached the guild’s bargaining committee, seeking what managers described as one-time modifications to the union contract that protects more senior staff members from layoffs.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2024

Incidentally he paid a visit to the home of Jake Michel and, after industrial unionism was more fully explained, Michel agreed that the craft union contract system forced scabbery upon the workers.

From The Everett massacre A history of the class struggle in the lumber industry by Smith, Walker C.