What this service is:

Union Labor Report Newsletter provides you day-to-day help in resolving issues concerning organizing, representing workers, and administering a union, plus timely updates and insights on significant workplace-related legal, legislative, and regulatory developments nationwide.

What it helps you do:

• Have the information you need to be a more effective local union president, organizer, or business agent.
• Gain valuable insights on issues specific to unions, including organizing, representation elections, bargaining, grievance handling, union elections, and leadership
• Be aware of the impact of broader workplace issues such as job safety, EEO, and labor and employment law.
• Keep up to date on important new legislation, regulations, court decisions, and other legal developments affecting unions and labor relations with the Newsletter.
• Broaden your horizons by examining policies and actions at numerous unions, not only the one you belong to, and discover what's working and why.
• Easily access crucial resources that are otherwise hard to find -- if available elsewhere at all.
• Monitor ongoing and pending strikes, contract expirations, collective bargaining negotiations, and organizing drives.
• Turn to the Reference File for discussions of important topics in labor-management relations, from basic to complex. Learn how to define a situation and determine the proper strategy for addressing it.
• Examine federal and state laws and regulations governing labor and employment. Be familiar with union guidelines.
• Evaluate potential grievances with Grievance Guide summaries of union arbitration decisions.
• Apply easy-to-understand, practical guidance a level above that found in union newspapers. Crucial information is written in clear business English.
• Better defend members' interests with On the Line, which helps union stewards in understanding the "common law of the shop," managing disputes, and meeting new goals.
• Reap the benefits of Bloomberg BNA's renowned labor expertise with special reports and analyses.
• Trust the publication that has helped generations of union leaders since it was first published 54 years ago.

Product Structure

Reference: analysis, guidance and primary source material

Notification: current reports providing news and developments

Formats and Frequency

Print reference material is updated monthly and indexed semi-annually. Print notification Union Labor Report Newsletter is issued biweekly; On the Line: A Guide for Union Stewards is issued quarterly.

Web notification Union Labor Report Newsletter is available biweekly. On the Line: A Guide for Union Stewards is available quarterly. E-mail summaries, providing the highlights and table of contents for each report, with URLs to full text articles and documents are also available.

• Arbitration awards
• Boycotts
• Child labor
• Collective bargaining
• Contract negotiations
• EEO
• Federal labor and employment laws and regulations
• Grievances
• NLRB proceedings
• Occupational safety and health
• Overtime
• Picketing
• Shop problems
• State labor relations laws
• Stewards
• Strikes and slowdowns
• Union administration
• Union leaders
• Union organizing
• Wages and hours