What are the SWA obligations with respect to contacting labor unions?
The Department strongly recommends that a SWA, which has knowledge that the employer’s job opportunity is in an occupation that is traditionally unionized, circulate a copy of the intrastate job order to all applicable 7 unions and other sources of recruitment and apprise these sources of the available position(s) within the area of intended employment. To ensure that the labor unions and other sources of recruitment will have a sufficient amount of time to apprise their members to apply for the available position(s), we strongly recommend that the SWA contact the union on the first day that it places the intrastate job order on its active file for recruitment and request that referrals of applicants be made to the SWA within the active recruitment period. Last, the SWA should allow a reasonable period of time, e.g., 3 calendar days after the close of the job order, for referrals sent the day the order closed to be received and considered by the SWA.
