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the moment coworkers stop venting in group chats and start signing cards.
means to organize workers into a formal union so they can bargain collectively with management over pay, hours, and conditions.
from from union, rooted in latin unio meaning oneness — the labor sense crystallized in 19th-century industrial england and america, when scattered workers realized solo complaints get ignored but collective ones get contracts.
legal shieldus law protects unionizing under the nlra, 1935.
vote thresholdoften needs majority support before recognition.
amazon momentstaten island warehouse unionized in 2022, stunning analysts.