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Unionizing statewide surges and largely succeeds

CUNY report finds election petitions have also increased

BY CRYSTAL LEWIS
Posted 9/6/24

The surge of union organizing that started during the Covid pandemic have persisted — and those efforts have been mostly successful, according to a recent report by CUNY’s School of Labor and Urban Studies. 

So far this year, nearly three-quarters of unions that submitted petitions to unionize to the National Labor Relations Board have won their elections. That 73-percent success rate represents a significant increase from 10 and 20 years ago: 62 percent of union drives succeeded in 2014 while just 52 percent prevailed in 2004. The number of election petitions, meanwhile, is the highest it’s been since 2015.

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