Labor Relations Vignette Unit 2: What is Multi-Employer Collective Bargaining?

In this session, we will discuss a brief history of organizing and how collective bargaining has evolved over time. Collective bargaining originally developed between a single employer and one group of employees. However, industries like construction are very different because they consist of thousands of small companies rather than a few large ones. Just as one individual employee cannot stand up alone against a company, a small company has little chance of standing up against a large union on its own. That is why the role of a skilled labor relations attorney is so important.