bargaining unit

noun

1. a group of employees represented by a union in collective bargaining.

bargaining unit

noun

1. a specific group of employees who are covered by the same collective agreement or set of agreements and represented by the same bargaining agent or agents

Example Sentences

To win, the union needs yes votes from a majority of the ballots cast, rather than a majority of the nearly 6,000 workers that the NLRB has determined are the bargaining unit.

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The RWDSU, which filed in November a petition with the NLRB to hold the Amazon unionization vote, will need to win a majority of votes cast in the balloting, not a majority of the bargaining unit itself.

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Amazon countered the union’s initial filing seeking to establish a bargaining unit that would cover 1,500 full-time and part-time workers, saying the number should actually total 5,723 employees.

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That’s also the deadline it has given both sides to agree to election terms such as when the vote will happen, whether it will be in person or by mail, and which workers will be included in the proposed bargaining unit.

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Amazon can contest the size and composition of the proposed bargaining unit.

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