Estados Unidos de América - Resistance to collective bargaining and bad-faith bargaining (2010)

Even after a union becomes certified as the exclusive representative of the workers, many employers engage in bad-faith bargaining in order to prevent the union from winning a first contract. Under current law, if no contract is reached for 12 months, the union’s status as bargaining representative can be challenged. As a result, 44% of all attempts at winning a first contract fail. Only one in seven organising efforts in which a petition is filed with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) achieve a first contract.