You won your vote to form a union. Now comes the hard part.
A year after workers vote to unionize, more than half still don’t have a contract. After a year without a contract, management can push to legally decertify a hard-won union.
Reaching a first contract matters—so how do you get there? In this first installment of our new The Nation Explains video series, strikes correspondent, Jane McAlevey explains three core principles that can help workers win better contracts, faster.
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CREDITS:
Host: Jane McAlevey
Senior Producer: Ludwig Hurtado
Associate Producer: Lucy Dean-Stockton
Research: Karen Ng, Finley Muratova
Graphics: Drew Evans
Jane McAleveyTwitterJane McAlevey is a columnist for The Nation and was the magazine’s strikes correspondent from 2019 to 2023. Her books include A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy and Rules to Win By: Power and Participation in Union Negotiations, cowritten with Abby Lawlor (March 2023), she is a senior policy fellow at the University of California’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment.
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