Does a collective bargaining agreement cover all employees?
Legislation on collective bargaining varies from state to state. One model is to establish a board to oversee certification of bargaining units and agents or to delegate these responsibilities to an existing board. Bargaining units are usually defined by logical geographic or agency groupings. There are rules governing petitions to the boards by organizations wishing to represent employees as bargaining agent. There are rules for conducting elections among employees to determine if they want collective bargaining, and if so, which organization will act as their agent. Any organization winning an election becomes the bargaining agent for that bargaining unit. With some exceptions (such as political appointees), all employees in the unit are represented by that bargaining agent, whether all employees are members or not. Under Taft-Hartley, private sector supervisors are expressly excluded from membership in collective bargaining units. In the public sector, due to the large numbers of su
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